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Vicki McClure Davidson | July 31, 2011

  Central New York has an escalating problem with aggressive, wild boars that are chasing people, attacking livestock, and killing pets. The feral animals, while not reported to have attacked people, are also invading farms. Wild boars, non-native, scruffy-looking ancestors of the domestic pig, are known by various names, including wild hogs, wild pigs, or [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | July 31, 2011

  Billy Joe Madden of Hattiesburg, Mississippi wins the “Worst Father of the Week” award for instructing his 8-year-old son to drive his pickup truck on the Louisiana interstate while he reportedly slept off a drunken binge. Fortunately, no one was hurt and the boy and his 4-year-old sister, who was also riding in the [...]

Category: Law & Constitution, Social and Political Climate | 1 Comment »
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Vicki McClure Davidson | July 31, 2011

  This has “potential state program catastrophe” written all over it. Did Kansas state officials think this one through? From Wichita Eagle, Program has foster teens, sex offenders in same spot: A state-funded residential program designed to teach young adults how to live safe, productive lives mixes 16-year old-girls in foster care with sex offenders [...]

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Tags: abuse, apartment, child, child abuse, children, foster care, gang members, Government, government program, Kansas, nonprofit, Ozanam Pathways, police, rape, sex, sex offenders, social programs, teens, teens foster