US Rejects Extradition Request From UK Over Fatal Road Crash
The British government on Friday condemned a decision by the United States not to extradite an American woman involved in a fatal road accident.
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Man Who Ran Teens Off Road After Prank Charged With Murder
For a group of Southern California boys it was meant as a practical joke – ring a neighbor’s doorbell and run away. Now three of them are dead and the target of their prank faces murder charges.
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Mnuchin at Davos Pushes Back on Thunberg Climate Warnings
The Trump administration continued to belittle 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg at a summit in Switzerland, with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin becoming the latest U.S. official to do so Thursday.
Read moreSexual Harassment
A woman sued Frank Model Management and its owner in San Diego Superior Court, claiming its photographer Robert Koerster sexually molested her when she was a 16-year-old aspiring model, and that Koerster has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for 23 felony counts.
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SoCal Driver Intentionally Rams Car, Killing 3 Teens
A Southern California driver intentionally rammed a Toyota Prius with six teenage boys inside, killing three and injuring three others before fleeing, authorities said Monday.
Read moreAbusive Teacher
A Native American claims a teacher at Cibola High School in Albuquerque called her a “bloody Indian” in front of her 11th-grade English class, “moments after she cut off the braids of another female Native American student against her will in front of the same class,” in Bernalillo County Court.
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CNN Settles Lawsuit With Kentucky Teen in Demonstration
CNN has settled a lawsuit with a Kentucky teen who claimed media organizations falsely labeled him as a racist following a well-publicized encounter with a Native American last year at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
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Family of Dead Franco-Irish Teen Sue Malaysian Resort
The family of a Franco-Irish teenager whose body was found in the Malaysian jungle are suing the resort from where she disappeared for allegedly failing to provide adequate security.
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White House Vaping Ban Targets Fruity Flavors
Popular flavors of electronic cigarette cartridges will vanish from store shelves in 2020, as the Trump administration announced a ban on many of those products Thursday while allowing others to stay on the market.
Read moreSexual Abuse
W.S. sued the United States Tennis Association and Normandie Burgos in Alameda County Court, claiming coach Burgos sexually abused him when he was 13, and the USTA let his Burgos Tennis Foundation become a member though he had a “history of sexual misconduct with children.”
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Woman Accused in Racist Attack Faces More Charges
An Iowa woman who told police she intentionally ran over a teenager because she believed the girl was Mexican has been charged with another hit-and-run crash that hurt a 12-year-old boy.
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Houston Teens Rewarded for Turning Their Lives Around
Miracle Washington-Tribble didn’t see much hope for her future. At 16 and already a single mother, she wasn’t going to school, had been in numerous fights and lacked ambition to turn her life around.
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UK Charges US Diplomat’s Wife Over Teen’s Death in Crash
An American diplomat’s wife who left Britain after being involved in a fatal road accident that killed a British teenager has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, British prosecutors said Friday.
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R. Kelly Pleads Not Guilty on Charges Linked to Aaliyah Marriage
R. Kelly pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new Brooklyn indictment that charges the rapper with paying bribes so that Aaliyah, the hip-hop ingenue who died in a 2001 plane crash, could get a fake ID to marry him when she was just 15.
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Marijuana Vaping Surges Among American Teens, Study Finds
Even as deaths from marijuana vaping made national headlines, a new study of teen drug use found that the habit skyrocketed among high schoolers this year.
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Ex-Cop Gets 10 Years for Forcing Teens to Run Naked
A former South Florida policeman was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for making two teenagers run down a desolate street naked after pulling them over for a traffic violation.
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Italy Faces Complaint at UN for ‘Abusive’ Return of Refugees
Campaigners filed a complaint with the United Nations against Italy on Wednesday over a teenage asylum-seeker who was sent back to Libya in 2018 with others, where he was shot, beaten and put to forced labor.
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Greta Arouses a Tweetstorm on Her Way Home
Climate activist Greta Thunberg and Germany’s national railway company created a tweetstorm Sunday after she posted a photo of herself sitting on the floor of a train surrounded by baggage.
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Trump Criticizes Climate Activist Thunberg After Time Honor
President Donald Trump lashed out at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday, a day after she was named by Time as its Person of the Year, calling her selection “ridiculous.”
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Greta Thunberg Brings Her Climate Protest to Madrid
Tens of thousands of activists from around the world including teen activist Greta Thunberg hit the streets of Madrid on Friday to demand urgent action on the climate crisis from world leaders attending the COP25 summit in the Spanish capital.
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