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Archive for August, 2007



Judge finds Duke prosecutor in contempt

Friday 31 August 2007 @ 6:09 pm

Mike Nifong, the disgraced former Durham County district attorney, was held in criminal contempt of court Friday for lying to a judge when pursuing rape charges against three falsely accused Duke University lacrosse players.


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Men Choose Romance Over Success

Wednesday 29 August 2007 @ 4:45 pm

Men may be more willing than women to sacrifice achievement goals for a romantic relationship, according to a new study by Catherine Mosher of Duke Medical Center and Sharon Danoff-Burg from the University of Albany. Their findings challenge our preconceptions that women are more likely to prioritize people and relationships while men are more focused on themselves and their achievements.


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Henry’s child support judgment won’t get him in trouble with NFL

Wednesday 29 August 2007 @ 4:43 pm

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry’s child support judgments might expose him to catcalls across the league this season, but they don’t put him in line for disciplinary action by the NFL.


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Michigan: Friend of the Court contract with sheriff to arrest child support scofflaws

Wednesday 29 August 2007 @ 4:34 pm

OTSEGO COUNTY — Friend of the Court (FOC) Amy Neubecker confirmed that the FOC has contracted with the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department to pursue bench warrants for those individuals delinquent in child support.


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Alleged rape victim faces court-martial for lewd behavior

Wednesday 29 August 2007 @ 4:29 pm

A 20-year-old woman in the U.S. Air Force who alleged three airmen raped her in North Carolina now faces a court-martial for drinking and lewd behavior.


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DHS objections, and paternity horror stories

Monday 27 August 2007 @ 7:00 am

The Department of Homeland Security to exception to my gloomy column of earlier this week whining about how U.S. citizens are suddenly being required to show their passports all over the damned place, except if they are deemed to owe $2,500 in child support, in which case they can’t have one.


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Communities without fathers are likely to become enclaves of their own

Monday 27 August 2007 @ 6:58 am

This has been a week dominated by murder and children. It began with a furore and fury over the future of Learco Chindamo, who as a 15-year-old gang member stabbed Philip Lawrence to death outside his school in 1995, and it ends with the immense collective grief felt for the parents of Rhys Jones, an 11-year-old boy shot dead while playing football. He was almost certainly killed by a child of a similar age to Chindamo when he committed his crime. Children killing adults is an appalling enough event. Children killing children in this callous fashion is yet more numbing still.


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W. Virginia pumps child support hysteria

Monday 27 August 2007 @ 6:45 am

“Child support maintains the very basic necessities of children in our state,’’ said Susan Perry, commissioner of the state Bureau for Child Support Enforcement. “Quite a number of these people are barely above the TANF support level, and without it, they’ll be on TANF support again.’’


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Ex-wife of former State Senator John Ford wants child support

Monday 27 August 2007 @ 6:42 am

Mitchell-Ford, the ex-wife of former State Senator John Ford, says she’ll be thinking about her ex and as he’s sentenced Monday but her goal is to get him in another courtroom. One in juvenile court. The couple had 4 children, the youngest, John-John, named after his father is just 2 years old.


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America, a new frontier for dads’ barmy army

Monday 27 August 2007 @ 6:27 am

Fathers 4 Justice climbed the Lincoln Memorial last week. Matt O’Connor, their founder, tells the fight isn’t over


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