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'FARMINGTON -- A woman accused of blackmailing a man at Hill Air Force Base over a rape allegation will go on trial next month.

The 31-year-old woman appeared in 2nd District Court on Monday where she was expected to tae a plea deal. However, her attorney announced that she would like to take the case to trial.
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The case is complicated, with the woman charged with second-degree felony theft by extortion. Her attorney said she is the victim of a rape and filed a police report in Seattle. Davis County prosecutors said any rape investigation has no influence on their case against her.
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Court documents say the woman blackmailed the man out of nearly $50,000 by saying she would not report the alleged sexual assault to military authorities in exchange for the money.'

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'Talk about a hot-button issue: Despite women's social and economic gains over the last 35 years, more American women report being less happy. In fact, a new gender gap has emerged: men are now happier than women.

That's according to a study, "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness," by two University of Pennsylvania economists to be published in the American Economic Journal in August.

But the word's out, igniting gender battles online as both sides point fingers. "Typical complaining women," and "raving, loony feminists," snipe some males. "We have too much to do," and "sexist jerks," females retort.

None seemed overly surprised by the U.S. study, that women are unhappier now than in the 1970s. "There's no `me time,'" says a 38-year-old bank analyst with two children.
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"Maybe women voice their feelings now. They were unhappy before but didn't say it," suggests a 45-year-old administrative assistant.

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'he reluctance of men to adopt a healthy lifestyle and visit the doctor may be fuelling a gender gap in cancer cases and deaths, experts say.

Among cancers which affect both sexes, men are 60% more likely to develop the disease and 70% more likely to die from it, Cancer Research UK said.
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They found that overall men are 40% more likely than women to die from cancer and 16% more likely to develop the disease in the first place.

But excluding breast cancer and other cancers that are gender specific, as well as lung cancer which is more likely to affect men because more men smoke, the difference between the sexes was far greater.
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Sara Hiom, director of health information at Cancer Research UK, said: "We know that around half of all cancers could be prevented by changes to lifestyle and it's worrying that this message could be falling on deaf ears for men.

"Delays in reporting symptoms to a doctor could be helping to fuel this gender gap in cancer mortality."'

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'Men enjoy power, privilege and status at the expense of women, a fact that contributes to persistent and widespread gender-based violence.

Stephen Fisher, an Australian trainer on masculinities at the Chisholm Institute [hyperlink added], Melbourne, was speaking at the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre’s (FWCC) Pacific Regional Meeting on Violence Against Women at the Naviti Resort on the Coral Coast in Fiji.

Fisher said the concept of masculinities was a major factor that reinforced male behaviour normalising demeaning and violent treatment of women.

Many men enjoy maintaining their dominance role in their personal relationships and in and this is expressed through their masculinity, Fisher said.'

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'Kim Gandy, a savvy former prosecutor, is stepping down as NOW president after eight years leading the battle against many Bush-era policies.

The election to succeed her, set for NOW's three-day national conference starting Friday in Indianapolis, is both an unusual clash of generations and an opportunity for activists to confront some of the challenges facing the feminist movement.

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'HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana woman accused of hiding the body of her 2-year-old son in the trunk of her car for most of last summer pleaded guilty Friday to negligent homicide and evidence tampering.

Summer ManyWhiteHorses told detectives that her son, James, fell from a high chair on the night of May 28 while she was watching television in another room.

She put his body in the trunk of her car and drove around the state with her 11-year-old daughter for nearly two months, paying for food, gas, hotel rooms and alcohol with government checks meant to take care of the boy, who was autistic.

ManyWhiteHorses appeared before a judge in Great Falls on Friday, three days before her trial was scheduled to start. The 31-year-old woman could be punished with up to 100 years in prison when she is sentenced next month in Cascade County District Court.'

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'A Millcreek woman is free Monday night, just hours after a jury was selected to hear the case against her.

Catherine Cates faced 4 charges of rape of a child, and was arrested back in March.

Prosecutors alleged Cates had sex with a 13-year-old boy, whom she tutored.

Monday afternoon, the Prosecution filed a motion to dismiss all charges. Cates' roommate, who was going to testify for the prosecution, told them she remembered more details, and it hurt their case.

"She said she had been in the house every time they were together, and she didn't walk in on them and she didn't believe they had any kind of sexual encounter," said John Walsh, Cates' attorney.'

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'Valerie Lianne Carlton, 40, of Joppa, Maryland, was indicted by the Grand Jury for Harford County on June 2, 2009 on 28 counts ranging from the Sexual Child Abuse of two young girls, ages five and six, to Attempted Child Kidnapping and Extortion. These offenses began on or about January 2008 and continued through April 2009. Carlton has been a resident of Joppa for the past fifteen years.

The case is being investigated by the Harford County Child Advocacy Center and anyone with any information concerning this case is urged to contact the Center at 410.638.3294. Please contact Joseph Cassilly, State’s Attorney for Harford County, at 410.638.3500 for further information regarding this release.'

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'NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — It was a globe-trotting romance: a handsome American working as a model in Italy falls in love with a Brazilian beauty studying fashion design in Milan. They marry in 1999, settle in the tony New Jersey shore town of Red Bank, and have a son.

Four years later, the couple's relationship begins to change from an international love affair into a diplomatic nightmare.

The woman, Bruna Bianchi, took the couple's son to visit her relatives in Brazil in 2004 but never returned. The boy's father, David Goldman of Tinton Falls, N.J., has been battling to get his son back ever since.'

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'WASHINGTON TWP. -- A township man nearly bled to death Monday night in the mobile home he was living in after being stabbed by his estranged wife.

Police were tipped off to the incident by a neighbor of Joseph Hill, 46, of the 900 block of Tuckahoe Road around 9:05 p.m. Hill banged on the neighbor's window saying he had been stabbed.

According to police, Lana Hill, 47, who was last residing in South Harrison Township with a Mullica Hill mailing address stabbed her husband in the left leg with a kitchen knife, causing a single puncture wound during what authorities are calling a domestic dispute.

Joseph Hill was taken by ambulance to Cooper Medical Center in Camden. On arrival he was unconscious after losing a considerable amount of blood. He eventually came-to.

His wife is charged with aggravated assault, as well as possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and tampering with evidence. The tampering charge is connected to her attempted to conceal the weapon she allegedly performed the stabbing with.'

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'A women [sic] fatally beat her husband and stepson to death with the help of her friends after the man returned to his first wife, on Monday morning in the Pandesara area of Surat.

Rambabu Paswan was killed on the spot while his son Krunal died during treatment at the New Civil Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

The assault took place near the Akashbhumi Complex at Pandesara GIDC, when Rambabu was on his way to drop Krunal to the nearby tuition class on his motorcycle. His second wife Rekha alias Asha Tiwari (35) arrived in an autorickshaw along with her friends and assaulted the two with wooden sticks and baseball bats.'

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'As Vickie L. Kubin left a Washington County magistrate's office in chains Thursday before her expected release later in the day, her husband, Mark, said, "See you in a bit."

It was a calm contrast to June 3, the last time they were together.

At that time, they were involved in an argument at their home at 105 Fox Stop Road in Fallowfield Township, and Vickie Kubin 35, shot her husband in the side of the head, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

Minutes before she was to face a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Larry Hopkins in Charleroi yesterday, attorneys for both sides reached a tentative agreement that likely will involve 12 to 23 months of probation, but no prison time. The agreement requires Common Pleas Court approval.

Charges of criminal attempt to commit homicide and aggravated assault filed last week were dropped. Kubin waived her right to a preliminary hearing on charges of recklessly endangering another person and simple assault.'

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'Labour MP Caroline Flint has been criticised for her attack on Gordon Brown's style of government and his treatment of female ministers.

Ms Flint resigned as Europe minister on Friday, claiming he operated a "two-tier" government via an "inner" circle.

Senior female figures were regarded as "little more than window dressing" by the prime minister, Ms Flint argued.

Fellow MP Geraldine Smith said Ms Flint would "regret" her comments, saying she should have thought twice about them.'

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'A pair of Indiana brothers, Joel and Aaron Longanecker, have convinced more than a quarter-million males to promise to "stand up and do manly things" on June 15 in observance of their proposed new holiday -- National Man Day.

Their National Man Day page on Facebook urges men across the country to take time to get in touch with their masculine sides on Monday. Suggested activities include playing football, camping, hunting, eating 18-ounce steaks, blowing things up, shooting guns, punching each other for no reason, pumping some iron or "watching every Rambo movie from beginning to end. Straight through!"

The purpose of the proposed holiday, according to the National Man Day page, is to acknowledge that the time has arrived "to take back the crown of masculinity."

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