The Star-Telegram
By Jason Buch
The 18-year-old woman was walking in the 3800 block of Maurice Avenue at about noon when a man in a car offered her a ride. After she refused repeatedly, the man got out, grabbed her by the hair and ordered her to get in, said Lt. Paul Henderson, a police spokesman.
When the woman fought back, the man threw her to the ground and kicked her in the ribs, Henderson said.
Guardian Unlimited
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
The Observer
Fears of sexual turmoil and ‘bachelor villages’
China is planning to tighten punishments for sex-selective abortions amid concerns that its widening gender imbalance will lead to wife trafficking, sexual crimes and social frustration.
Shocking new figures released by the state media show that the worst affected city, Lianyungang in Jiangsu province, has a ratio of 165 boys to 100 girls among children aged one to four.
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AAP
A 16-year-old schoolboy has cracked the federal government’s $84-million internet porn filter.
Tom Wood, a Year 10 student, told News Ltd newspapers it took him about 30 minutes to break through the government’s new filter, released on Tuesday.
Tom, who attends a Melbourne private school, can deactivate the filter after several clicks.
His method ensures the software’s toolbar icon is not deleted.
He can leave his parents believing the filter is still working.
NBC6.net
South Florida
The Miami-Dade Police Department said 40-year-old Mariella Brenilla is a teacher at Ponce De Leon Middle School.
Police say that they believe she had sex with a 14-year-old eighth-grader who attended the school four years ago.
By JIM SCHAEFER
DETROIT FREE PRESS
Harold Nelthrope, a former Kilpatrick police bodyguard, testified in Wayne County Circuit Court that he and another officer in 2002 drove the mayor to a rendezvous with a “Jamaican friend” at a barbershop on the west side of Detroit about two blocks from the Kilpatrick family home.
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WFMJ.com
Associated Press
Thirty-6-year-old Linda Van Pool of Donora is in jail this morning on charges of endangering the welfare of a child, corruption of minors and other crimes. In May, 37-year-old Kathleen Waggoner, also of Donora, was arrested on the same charges.
The Daily Telegraph
Australia
Jameson, 33, went under the knife to have the notorious implants removed earlier this month.
She reportedly went from a D cup to a C.
“When I had implants I felt uncomfortable. I would be shy at the beach. I know it sounds funny, but I’d wear high-necked clothes - unless I was at an adult-film convention. So I thought, ‘Why don’t I be who I am and get my real ones back?’,” she told US magazine Us Weekly.
Pioneer Press
BY MARA H. GOTTFRIED
Pioneer Press
As many as 10 people witnessed a man raping and beating a woman early Tuesday in the hallway of a St. Paul apartment building, police said Wednesday.
No one stopped it.
At one point, the 26-year-old victim knocked on a door, yelling for the occupants to call police. A man inside told police he didn’t open the door or look out, though he said he called police. Police found no record of the call, according to an affidavit for a search warrant filed in Ramsey County District Court.
CNN World
Reuters
Daad Mohammed Murad Abdul Rahman, 60, has already had 15 brides although he has to divorce them as he goes along to remain within the legal limit of four wives at a time.
“In 2015 I will be 68 years old and will have 100 children,” the local tabloid quoted Abdul Rahman as saying.
New York Daily News
Barbie’s not that kind of girl.
The makers of the all-American doll sued chinabarbie.com yesterday, accusing the Hollywood, Fla., company of trying to peddle soft porn across the Internet by invoking Barbie’s good name.
Chinabarbie.com sells memberships to customers eager to view Asian women posing in various stages of undress.
NPR
Crime In The City
John Burdett’s Bangkok is far more than the bizarre murders, corrupt cops and big-hearted bar girls of his novels, which include Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Haunts.
It’s also the city as a living breathing, thing, like the Chao Phraya River that snakes through Bangkok’s center. The waterway is where Burdett’s narrator-detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep sometimes comes to unwind.
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AAP
David Wayne Budd, 28, was arrested at Sydney Airport on June 23 after an online conversation with a detective posing as a young girl on June 21.
The Petty Officer 2nd Class had been stationed at Rockhampton in Queensland, where he had been posted as part of a joint US-Australian military training exercise.