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Drug lord's son speaks out against violence

Sebastian Marroquin speaks in Calgary about the crimes of his father, Pablo Escobar, a drug lord killed in 1993.

Sebastian Marroquin, son of columbian drug dealer Pablo Escobar

CALGARY — In 2007, Sebastian Marroquin set off on a journey of atonement. He sat down and wrote letters to two young men whose fathers were brutally murdered.

"It took me three months to write the letters," says the soft-spoken 35-year-old, as we sit together at…

Sebastian Marroquin, son of Columbian drug head Pablo Escobar poses for a photo on April 25, 2012, in downtown Calgary, Alberta. (STUART DRYDEN/QMI AGENCY)

CALGARY -- His fear growing with every passing second, Sebastian Marroquin tried to get his father to hang up the phone.

But Pablo Escobar wouldn't listen. The world's most notorious drug lord was on the run following a prison break, and apparently…

Steven Benson (murderer)

Community Activist Calls on Youth to Rise Up Through New Radio Show

Posted on April 10th, 2012 by Candace Dunkley in More News, Voices

Ever since 2002, Mary Nelson, founder of the Mary Nelson Youth Center, has worked to empower her community. Recently Nelson decided to reach kids through the form of entertainment. On Thursday, April 12, Nelson will hold her first mock interview of the radio program Rise Up, which she says is scheduled to air on Clear Channel’s Power am 620 on April…

More than 110,000 active-duty Army troops last year took antidepressants, sedatives and other prescription medications. Some see a link to aberrant behavior.

While there was some early, ad hoc use of psychotropic drugs in the Vietnam War, the modern Army…

Trayvon Martin case: 6 youths ‘beat man, 78, in twisted racial revenge attack’

The public outcry behind Trayvon Martin’s “Murder’ focuses national attention on the fate of young Black men in the U.S.A. Murders involving young black males have soared in the past few years. But murder is only one manifestation of the racism against young black men. Indeed, the untold story in the U.S. is the way young black men are purposely used as pawns and falsely punished for political reasons by powerful politicians-- from the use of false arrests to long prison sentences to…

As much of the country follows the Trayvon Martin case, activists in Chicago are hoping to bring some of that attention to Howard Morgan, a former Chicago police officer who was shot 28 times by white officers -- and lived to tell his side of the story.

Morgan was off-duty as a detective for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad when…