School secretary Julie Gagnon (stage name Samantha Ardente) explaining to a reporter her case. The 14-year-old pupil who outed a school secretary for leading a secret double-life as a adult film star demanded sex from the woman to keep quiet, her legal team has claimed. The Canadian boy was suspended from school in March for creating a fake Facebook page in her name with a racy profile picture of the... 

Thanks for Freedom of Speech, gay pride parades are a cherished form of free speech but not when it comes to the Israeli apartheid. Gays are bashing Christianity all the time and yet they are not banned from their Gay Pride Parades. We’ll believe it, and pay for it, when we see it. Mayor Rob Ford along with some Toronto city councillors was skeptical about a promise by Queers Against Israeli Apartheid... 

Joint Chief Vice Chairman Gen. James E. Cartwright, right, accompanied by Defense Undersecretary for Personnel and Readiness Clifford Stanley, conduct a media briefing at the Pentagon to discuss the progress of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal implementation effort. Four branches of the military have begun sending training material to 2.2 million active and reserve troops... 

Police raided the Benders’ home Tuesday night. Jessie Bender flyers were still displayed in Hesperia Wednesday night, hours after San Bernardino County Sheriff’s confirmed they found the 13-year-old girl safe in an Apple Valley hotel, missing for eight days. Authorities believe she was trying to dodge an arranged marriage in her stepfather’s homeland of Pakistan, contrary to her... 

The lavish public swimming pool Husby is famous for its many rape cases. All Swedish media chose this week to cover up the gang rape that occurred in Husby swimming pool in northern Stockholm on Sunday. 20 unaccompanied refugee youths from Björkuddens transit accommodation are suspected of having molested three Swedish girls aged 11 and 12 years old. The incident occurred when the tax-funded welfare... 

Police have arrested seven more suspects in connection to the sexual assault of a pre-teen girl in Cleveland, Texas. The following individuals, all from Cleveland, have been charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child under 14: — Jared Glenn McPherson, 18 — Kelvin Rashad King, 21 — Marcus Anthony Porchia, 26 — Devo Shaun Green, 20 — Xavier King, 17 — Eric... 

A road sign in Tokyo. Japan’s number of known child pornography victims surged by half last year, data showed Thursday, a new record in a country where it is legal to possess sexually explicit images of children. Japan’s number of known child pornography victims surged by half last year, data showed Thursday, a new record in a country where it is legal to possess sexually explicit images... 

The Supreme Court has said Russell and Robalee Bruesewitz’s lawsuit was preempted under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. The law grants drug companies immunity from certain lawsuits from injuries or deaths tied to vaccinations. A federal law grants drug companies immunity from certain lawsuits from injuries or deaths tied to vaccines, the US Supreme Court affirmed Tuesday. The family... 

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price told a group of citizens to “go to Hell” on February 15, 2011. Tuesday’s Dallas County Commissioner’s Court meeting erupted into an argument between Commissioner John Wiley Price and a citizen, ending with Price repeatedly telling several citizens to “go to hell.” The exchange started during the public speaking portion of the meeting, which happens... 

As Congress seeks to renew the Patriot Act, new information exposes egregious FBI violations. Last week, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-VT, introduced legislation to extend the Patriot Act past its February 28 expiration date to December 2013. Though the extension once again saves some of the most nefarious, First-Amendment trampling provisions of the act — roving wiretaps, secret... 

'Well-known cloud over his head': Jailed financier Bernie Madoff. It has emerged that JPMorgan Chase were suspicious of his activities... but continued doing business with him anyway. A top Wall Street bank is said to have suspected Bernie Madoff was a crook more than 18 months before he was exposed as the world’s biggest swindler. But JPMorgan Chase executives continued to do business with... 

Egypt’s decision to turn off the Internet last night, denying users access to Twitter, Facebook, and text messaging, couldn’t stop thousands of protesters from taking to the streets of Cairo Friday morning, with similar demonstrations in Suez, Alexandria, and Al Arish in northern Sinai. Supporters of pro-democracy leader Mohammed ElBaradei, who called for the ouster of President Hosni... 

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said that it has been “at least bewildered” by the release of a book by a former Chechen militant Ilyas Akhmadov in the US. The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that Ilyas Akhmadov “passing himself off as the Foreign Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria is in fact a former militant who served as an aide for the international terrorist [Shamil] Basayev.”... 

Youth Services Removes 6 Children Living In Filth and Animal Waste. Six children were removed from their Uniontown home after investigators found them living in filth and animal waste. Police said their mother was addicted to online computer games, so she neglected her children and didn’t clean the house for years. The children’s stepfather, James Boord, spoke with Channel 11 outside the Mifflin... 

Mohammed Hanif Khan in the Stoke on Trent mosque where he worked as imam. He is alleged to have sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy inside the mosque. He denies all the charges against him. A British Muslim worship leader is accused of serially raping a young boy during visits to a mosque for religious lessons. Mohammed Hanif Khan, 42, is alleged to have sexually assaulted the boy, who was 12 years...