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Sneak Preview: Oprah Interviews Whitney Houston's Family

SNEAK PEEK: Oprah's Interview With Bobbi Kristina…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on March 6, 2012 at 10:31pm — No Comments

Mom sells 6 year old daughter's body for sex to score drugs

Florida mom sold 6-year-old daughter’s body for sex to score drugs: police

Woman's own mother says 'drug dealers' took over her home, making her 'as much a victim as her…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 6, 2012 at 6:54pm — No Comments

When Kids Commit Crimes

By Ryan Schill

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Monday, March 05, 2012 07:50

When Kids Commit Crimes

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 6, 2012 at 6:26pm — No Comments

In the age of texting, e-mail, Facebook and other forms of communication that teens have available, it can be hard for parents to keep up with all those cryptic abbreviations. But your child's life might depend on you deciphering them. Would you know what "robotripping on DXM" would mean? Or why April 20 is significant to kids who use drugs? Many of today's parents were raised in the era of Just Say No, and while schools still teach that concept,…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 6, 2012 at 6:19pm — No Comments

Tainted “Spice”, synthetic drug... Linked to Kidney Failure Outbreak

Health officials in Casper, Wyo., are investigating an outbreak of kidney failure linked to a batch of synthetic marijuana known as “spice.”

Three people were hospitalized Friday and two more were treated and released from a hospital in the eastern Wyoming city of 55,000 residents.

The patients, all in their teens and early 20s, reported vomiting, back pain and stomach pain. Officials are investigating reports of…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 6, 2012 at 6:09pm — No Comments

GONE today, but never forgotten. 03-06-2012. R.I.P. MARY Louise Guyton Harbin.......

GONE today, but never forgotten. 03-06-2012. R.I.P. MARY Louise Guyton Harbin.......

my mother sister passed today and i send my prayers out to my whole family she was a great auntie and a great person i will truly miss you.…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on March 6, 2012 at 8:37am — No Comments

the champ Jesse Valentino Ruiz

come out and support the champ Jesse Valentino Ruiz april 21,2012 now down with the streets dont love you back movement www.thestreetsdontloveyouback.ning.com

at the celebrity theatre versus in phoenix…

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Added by The Streets Don't Love You Back on March 4, 2012 at 10:40pm — No Comments

'Freeway' Rick Ross Trial Date Set, Calls Rapper Rick Ross a 'Complete Idiot'

Former Los Angeles drug kingpin "Freeway" Rick Ross continues to seek justice in his case against rapper Rick Ross, whom he claims is unlawfully profiting from his name and reputation.

After the lawsuit was…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 2, 2012 at 2:30pm — No Comments

US Number of Aging Prisioners Soaring

Corrections Officials Ill-Prepared to Run Geriatric Facilities

January 27, 2012…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 1, 2012 at 1:14pm — No Comments

The Gray Box: An investigative look at solitary confinement... cont.

The Gray Box: An investigative look at solitary confinement

A few weeks ago, on the fifteenth anniversary of his first day in prison, Osiel Rodriguez set about cleaning the 87 square feet he inhabits at ADX, a federal mass isolation facility in Colorado.

“I got it in my head to destroy all my photographs,” he writes in a letter to me. “I spent some five hours ripping each one to pieces. No one was safe. I did not save one of my mother, father, sisters. Who…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 1, 2012 at 1:06pm — No Comments

Profiting from Prisons

Sunday, February 19, 2012 04:27

Profiting from Prisons

A man opposes private prisons at an Occupy protest in Valdosta, GA.

Photo by faul, via Flickr.

Early this year, the United Methodist Church Board of Pension and Health Benefits voted to withdraw nearly $1 million in stocks…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 1, 2012 at 12:42pm — No Comments

The World’s ‘Murder Capital,’ Transformed

Monday, February 27, 2012 04:59

The World’s ‘Murder Capital,’ Transformed

Juarez Municipal Police have seen a decrease in crime after employing such tactics as stop-and-frisk, often employed in New York City.

Photo by Joseph J. Kolb

Juarez, the Mexican border city once…

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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 1, 2012 at 12:40pm — No Comments