Petition here. Excerpt:

'In their recent “Hot Shot Bites” commercial, which can be viewed in full at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRH9NBcd33k, Kentucky Fried Chicken depicts an act of domestic violence committed against a man by a woman. The man gives his girlfriend a taste of KFC’s product and asks her how she likes it. She responds by slapping him across the face, as the narrator says that the chicken is so spicy that it’s like a slap to the face. While KFC intends for this to be comical, we at Fathers and Families New York believe that depictions of domestic violence should never be a laughing matter. If the genders were reversed, no one would be laughing, and it should be no different here.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Twenty-five years after accusing an innocent man of rape, Tawana Brawley is finally paying for her lies.

Last week, 10 checks totaling $3,764.61 were delivered to ex-prosecutor Steven Pagones — the first payments Brawley has made since a court determined in 1998 that she defamed him with her vicious hoax.

A Virginia court this year ordered the money garnisheed from six months of Brawley’s wages as a nurse there.

She still owes Pagones $431,000 in damages. And she remains defiantly unapologetic.'

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Story here. Excerpt:

'The tattooed Brooklyn ex-teacher who pleaded guilty to sleeping with a 16-year-old football player was sentenced to 10 years probation today.

Erin Sayar, 37, also had to give up her teaching license and register as a Level 1 sex offender.

Sayar was ordered not to have any contact with the teen she pleaded guilty to having oral sex and intercourse with eight times in her office and SUV, while also plying him with pot.

“Do not send anyone to him on your behalf, and there is not to be any electronic communication,” Brooklyn Supreme Court judge Elizabeth Foley told a thin, frail-looking Sayar in court.'

Story here. Point is not to "pick on an old lady". (Well, she WAS selling Hydrocodone illegally, so really, what's the issue with just reporting it?) It's to show you're not only never too old to break bad, and yet even a woman can do so. Excerpt:

'Meet Pearl Jones.

The 85-year-old Tennessee woman was arrested Tuesday for felony drug distribution and maintaining a dwelling where drugs were being peddled.

While most of her octogenarian peers are enjoying their golden years, Jones was allegedly selling Hydrocodone, the powerful painkiller, from her home, according to a Kingsport Police Department report.

A search of Jones’s home turned up “narcotics in addition to evidence” corroborating a police probe “into Jones selling narcotics from this residence.”'

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'EATONTOWN — A woman reportedly struck her boyfriend in the back of the neck with a machete during a domestic dispute and then fled, police said Friday.

Eatontown Police Sgt. Troy Fowlkes told the Asbury Park Press that the man was taken to Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch with superficial injuries.

Police did not identify either person involved.
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The woman faces charges of aggravated assault, possession of an unlawful weapon for an unlawful purpose and domestic charges, Fowlkes said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Megan Welter, the Iraq war vet turned pro-football cheerleader whose inspiring story went viral this week has been arrested on assault charges in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Here’s what's been reported so far: Welter placed a 911 call to the Scottsdale police at 3am on July 20, explaining that she’d been in a physical altercation with her boyfriend, Ryan, and that they’d both been drinking to celebrate her birthday. “My boyfriend became abusive…He smashed my head into tile,” Welter, sounding out of breath and intoxicated, told the emergency operator in the recording of the 911 call, obtained and provided to Yahoo! Shine by RightThisMinute. She added that he had also put her in a "choke hold," and that “He knows how to fight, he’s a professional fighter, he’s been trained in wrestling.”

Article here. Excerpt:

'Attending the opera in Ottawa a few months ago, I had the kind of experience that once galvanized women to speak out against the sexist put-downs that passed for humor in an earlier era. This time, however, the putative humor was at the expense of men.

“Please silence anything in your possession that may be annoying to those around you,” said our host, an affable radio personality with Canada’s public broadcaster, “That includes cell phones, other electronic devices, your husband …” An approving chuckle ran through the crowd.
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So unquestioned is the anti-male animus of our time that the only pain considered worthy of attention or collective action is women’s pain.

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'A couple who battered the woman’s four-year-old son and left him to die in a locked, unheated box room have been convicted of murder.

The woman and her partner starved Daniel Pelka for months and force-fed him salt during a campaign of physical abuse. A serious case review will now try to establish why a number of opportunities to save the boy’s life were missed by authorities, who were convinced by his killers that he was suffering from a rare eating disorder.

Fourteen months before he died in March last year, Daniel became the focus of a police inquiry after his arm was broken. But the file was closed when his killers convinced officers that he hurt himself when he jumped from a sofa at their home in Coventry.'

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'SANTA ANA (CBSLA.com) — An eyewitness recorded cellphone video of a Santa Ana police officer shoot and kill an unarmed 22-year-old homeless man at a shopping center earlier this week.

The witness, who wished to remain unidentified, was standing in the parking lot of the Harbor Place Shopping Center on South Harbor Boulevard around 3 p.m. Tuesday when he said he filmed a confrontation in front of Jugo’s La Tropicana between an officer, later identified as a 13-year veteran, and victim Hans Kevin Arellano.

“She exited her patrol car, gun drawn, and asked the gentlemen to get on the ground. The gentlemen didn’t get on the ground, he was still inside the restaurant. She asked again. The man then exited the restaurant, and as he was exiting the restaurant, he said, ‘What are you gonna do, b—-?’ About a second later, she shot him in the chest,” he said.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A former Redlands high school teacher convicted of having sex with three of her students got off easy because she is a woman, an attorney for one of the victims said.

Laura Elizabeth Whitehurst, 28, pleaded guilty to engaging in sex acts with three boys and was sentenced to one year in jail this week. She had a baby with one of the boys this summer.

She admitted guilt to four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and two of oral copulation of a person under 18.

"This is a very short sentence for such crimes," said attorney Heather Cullen, whose firm represents the family of the boy who fathered a child with Whitehurst. "It's shocking anyone would face so little time for abusing minors. This is definitely being treated differently because they are boys and she is a woman."

She described the sentence as "a slap in the face to the victims."'

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'ROCKLAND, Maine — A Knox County jury convicted a 30-year-old Rockland woman Thursday of making a false report to police about being sexually assaulted by a former boyfriend.

Octavia Faustini was convicted of two criminal charges — filing a false report and unsworn falsification.

Justice Jeffrey Hjelm said that sentencing likely would be held during the last week of August. Both offenses are Class D crimes, punishable by a maximum of 364 days in jail.

Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey Baroody said he has not yet come up with a recommendation for a sentence.

The jury deliberated for two hours Thursday afternoon in Knox County Superior Court.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'FREEPORT – Tucked away on the sprawling land of Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport is the Coastal Studies For Girls, a science and leadership school for girls dedicated to experiential learning.

While not quite hidden in plain sight, the school, which leases 8 acres of land from Wolfe’s Neck Farm, occupies a unique place in the tri-town area. Entering its fourth year, Coastal Studies for Girls is a semester-long science and leadership school for 10th-grade girls. The school brings girls from around the country to the coast of Maine for 16 weeks during either the fall or spring term of their sophomore year of high school, enabling them to immerse themselves in a challenging and rewarding experience while living in a beautiful coastal landscape that serves as a natural laboratory, according to information provided by the school.'

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'Hera Hub, a shared workspace community of several hundred like-minded entrepreneurial women, announces the launch of the third ‘coworking’ space in Carlsbad at 5205 Avenida Encinas. The other two locations are in Sorrento and Mission Valley.

The 4,000-square-foot facility offers a large conference room, several private meeting rooms, and a large, shared workspace.

“We had significant demand for a North County location, with over 170 people on the interest list,” said Felena Hanson, Hera Hub founder. “Memberships will go fast, as we’ll cap at 120. Five days after our July 15th soft launch, we’re already one-third full.”

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'One lawyer's quixotic fight for men's equality suffered yet another legal setback when a judge ruled his human rights were not violated by a Chelsea nightclub that made him buy a $350 bottle of vodka to get in.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Alexander Hunter wrote this week that Roy Den Hollander was not the victim of age and gender discrimination in 2010 when a bouncer at Amnesia nightclub told the 66-year-old to pay up, while letting a young lady in for free at the same time.

"They all pull the same thing: 'These guys got gray hair, let's charge them some money,'" said the crusading barrister. "They're doing the same thing they did in the Deep South back in the 1950s. Having to buy a $350 bottle of watered down vodka – that's the 'sitting in the back of the bus' for us!"
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He also sued several Manhattan hot spots including the Copacabana for organizing "ladies’ nights" drink specials. The suit was thrown out by federal appeals court in 2010.