Story here. She kills 4 children and gets... 7 to 15. Anyone care to speculate what she'd've gotten if her name had been "Bobby" and not "Bobbie"? Bet she walks after 5, parole for the next 10. Excerpt:

'A Rochester mom will spend 7 to 15 years behind bars for the deaths of her four children in a fire last February.

31-year-old Bobbie Kugler admitted she set a photo of her ex-boyfriend on fire and threw it on a dresser filled with combustible materials. She also admitted she was drunk and high at the time.

Seven children were inside her home when the fire started, three survived the fire. But four children, all Kugler's own children, Gage Reavey, Greg, Kandee and Kaiden Kugler were all killed.

The two boys that survived the fire had to jump from a window on the second floor to escape the fire. They showed the judge their physical scars. Judge Randall, as he spoke to Kugler, made mention that we will never be able to see the emotional scars.'

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'EDMONTON - An Edmonton man who has already served “every minute” of an eight-year sentence for sexually assaulting his young stepson has now been acquitted.

In a decision released Monday, the Court of Appeal of Alberta acquitted the 47-year-old man because the boy later recanted and said his biological father forced him to lie during a 1994 custody dispute.

In a special commission hearing held last year, the boy, who was nine at the time and is now an adult, testified that allegations of sexual abuse and rape against his stepfather were completely false.
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"When I was a kid and these allegations came up, I was threatened, and as a kid you do what your parents tell you to do,” the stepson testified before the special commission. “You are young, and you don’t know right from wrong. And when your parent threatens you, you basically just do what you’re told.”'

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'A former Brunswick County teacher charged with having sex with a student pleaded guilty last month to a lesser charge after she married the victim, preventing the state from compelling him to testify against her, a prosecutor said this week.

Leah Gayle Shipman, 42, pleaded guilty Dec. 20 to misdemeanor resisting a public officer.

Shipman was a married Brunswick County Academy teacher when she was arrested in January 2009 on charges of sexual offense with a student, statutory rape and taking indecent liberties with a student. Shipman was immediately suspended from her job and her contract wasn't renewed.'

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'The research finds that more than three years on ADHD medication can stunt their development.

Dr Alison Poulton from the University of Sydney says boys with ADHD are shorter and thinner than their peers.

"If a child stays on medication for three years they are about three centimetres shorter than they would be otherwise," she said.

"The boys aged 12 to 14 were leaner and the boys aged 14 to 16 were not only slimmer but also slightly less tall.

"And when we looked at the growth rate, how fast they were growing in height, we found that the bigger the dose, the slower their growth rate.'

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'Women working full time in this state earn 84 percent of what men earn according to the state Labor Department. Nationally, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, women in 2010 earned 77 cents for every $1 men earned in full time work. In 2011 the median full-time working woman made 81.6 percent of the wages of the median full-time working man.

The number of hours worked per week varied the statistic, though. Among men and women who work 40 hours per week, women earned 87 percent of what men earned.
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Under the current law people who prove discrimination in wages can get back pay to make up the difference for what they would have earned if they were paid equally to their peers. This means a successful plaintiff in a wage discrimination case is entitled to 100 percent of the back wages due.

Cuomo proposed increasing that to 300 percent of back wages.
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'The biological father of Jodie Foster's two sons, Charles, 14, and Kit, 12, has never been revealed. However, according to Reverend Beverly Bates, 75, her son Randy Stone was Jodie's best friend and treated them as his own children.

In an interview with MailOnline, Reverend Beverly stopped short of confirming Randy is the kids’ father, while it’s heavily rumoured that's the case.

Randy, a Hollywood producer who passed away in 2007, swore to keep the father's identity a secret, Beverly told the Mail Online.

"Randy told me that Jodie said she'll tell the boys who their father is when they're 21,” Beverly said.'

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'Kelly Louise Barnes, 32, and her partner Jodie Barnes, 31, killed Barry Reeve in a "brutal and callous" attack in his home, Norwich Crown Court heard.

They tortured the retired bus conductor, believing he had a secret stash of money before turning the volume on his television up to mask his screams, it was claimed.

They beat the 67-year-old and cut him with a knife at his home in Norwich in an attempt to make him disclose his PIN, the jury were told.

After the attack on February 9 last year the drug addict couple, both of both, Norwich, left the grandfather dying, prosecutors alleged.

They returned to his terraced house in the city's Corton Road, where Mr Reeve, who was known as Titch because of his small stature, is thought to have remained alive until at least the following morning.'

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'KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan authorities are still torturing prisoners, such as hanging them by their wrists and beating them with cables, the United Nations said, a year after it first documented the abuse and won government promises of detention reform.

The latest report shows little progress in curbing abuse in Afghan prisons despite efforts by the U.N. and international military forces in Afghanistan. The report released Sunday also cites instances where Afghan authorities have tried to hide mistreatment from U.N. monitors.

The slow progress on prison reform has prompted NATO forces to once again stop many transfers of detainees to Afghan authorities out of concern that they would be tortured.

In multiple detention centers, Afghan authorities leave detainees hanging from the ceiling by their wrists, beat them with cables and wooden sticks, administer electric shocks, twist their genitals and threaten to shove bottles up their anuses or to kill them, the report said.'

Story here. Canadian woman goes free after putting a hit on her husband. She makes uncorroborated accusations against the victim and the press buys her story without question. Excerpt:

'A battered wife from Nova Scotia who tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband says she was "relieved" when Canada's highest court stayed her case on Friday and is looking forward to putting the ordeal behind her.
Nicole Ryan says she hopes to move on with her life and reconnect with her daughter, whom she has not seen since her trial in 2009.
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Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned Ryan's acquittal but also stayed the case, meaning there will be no retrial and her long legal nightmare is over.

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'ANDREA TANTAROS, CO-HOST: You do it all the time.

I completely agree with you. There was a report, I think it was in 1990, that said that women were short changed, particularly young girls in school, so there was an overcompensation with little girls. Now you see little girls graduating disproportionately from college, they're getting higher test scores. Little boys are being diagnosed with the learning disorders, like ADD, more in boys.

So, I think it's the young boys -- you're right, Bob -- that are getting left behind. But just in society, it's being catered to women. Women are the ones who are buying products. The movies, we go from Charleston Heston to Seth Rogen. The whole culture is being feminized in my opinion.

BECKEL: What do you think?

GUILFOYLE: I totally agree. I see it in schools and I see it in Ronan's classes. Let boys be boys. They want to play rough, don't try to overmedicate them and turn them in to girls. They're boys. There are differences in genders, embrace them, celebrate them.'

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'Supporters of Jodi Arias, the woman accused of killing her former lover, are raising money for her by auctioning artwork she supposedly has created since her 2008 incarceration.

Since Jan. 10, seven colored-pencil drawings have sold on the online auction website eBay, raking in $1,019.98 in winning bids.

The 32-year-old aspiring artist and photographer is currently on trial in Mesa, Ariz., accused of shooting Travis Alexander in the face, stabbing him 27 times and slitting his throat in the shower of his Mesa apartment in June 2008. Prosecutors allege she killed Alexander in a fit of jealous rage. The defense contends Alexander was killed in self-defense. The prosecution rested its case Thursday. The defense begins presenting its case in two weeks.'

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'My 4-year-old son, Emmett, swallows a spoonful of cereal and asks me if I know what a gentleman is. Surprised, I tell him I have some idea; then I ask what the word means to him.

“A gentleman lets girls go first,” he says, explaining that every day at naptime all the girls go to the bathroom before the boys.

His explanation, along with the quiet solemnity with which he delivers it, is completely endearing and yet it makes my heart ache. This adorable little boy, who is only beginning to learn the ways of the world, just got his first lesson in sexism — and from a teacher who, I don’t doubt, believes she’s doing something wonderful for womankind.

She isn’t the only one.

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'In March, the city of Seattle will begin offering women-only swims at four city pools in order to serve women who cannot swim in a co-ed environment for cultural, personal or religious reasons.

For the past decade, private groups have rented the city’s pools to offer single-sex swims, drawing mostly Muslim women and some Orthodox Jews, along with some who chose the swims for personal reasons (“Women-only swims draw crowds but face challenges,” Real Change, June 29, 2011). The windows are covered during the swims, which are staffed by female lifeguards.

As grants and other funding for the swims began to dry up, demand for the swims continued to grow, and city officials wanted to find a way to sustain them. First, they had to change non-discrimination policies that made single-sex programs difficult to sustain.'

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'Women can have it all – but only if they are prepared to sacrifice some of their power in the home, psychologists believe.

Research suggests that if a woman runs her household without any help, she has less interest in scaling the career ladder.

But the reason for this is not quite what you might expect, such as being too tired.

According to experts, the satisfaction of being in charge of day-to-day domestic tasks leaves mothers with less of a thirst for success at work.

If she were indeed to ‘have it all’ – a phrase coined by the late Cosmopolitan magazine editor Helen Gurley Brown to mean women can have a family life, a love life and a career – she would need to prepared to carve up some of the home decisions with her spouse, a study suggests.

This would free up some of her career drive and enable work success.

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'MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Verizon Foundation presented a $20,000 grant to the One Place Family Justice Center last night to support an initiative aimed at engaging and empowering men to speak out against domestic violence.

A CALL TO MEN: The Next Generation of Manhood was founded in 2002. Its vision is to shift social norms that define manhood in our culture and create a world where women and girls are valued and safe. Although historically it has been almost entirely women at the forefront addressing this issue, A CALL TO MEN believes that preventing domestic and sexual violence is primarily the responsibility of men.

A CALL TO MEN has trained men and women in more than 3,000 organizations throughout the United States and abroad, including the National Football League, the United Nations and many more.'