Three middle school-aged boys have been arrested after shots were fired in the Northland Wednesday afternoon. The Gladstone Police Department said in a news release that the incident occurred near the 6600 block of North Prospect Avenue around 12:30 p.m. A firearm was recovered, and all those believed to be involved have been apprehended, according […]
Stephen Blackwood is a former supply teacher in the Moncton area. (Stephen Blackwood/Instagram – image credit) WARNING: This article contains details of sexual assault A Moncton man repeatedly sexually touched students at schools while working as a supply teacher in the fall of 2022 and filmed boys in public pool locker rooms, a judge heard […]
The superintendent, deputy superintendent and treatment program administrator at the State Training School at Eldora have been axed following an investigation into allegations that a counselor had phone sex with a delinquent boy and also discussed having sex in person, letters obtained by Watchdog under Iowa’s open records law show. The Jan. 31 housecleaning of […]
Springfield’s seventh annual Black History Month Art Contest is underway and now community members are encouraged to vote on their favorite piece of artwork. The Black History Month Art Contest is a collaboration between the Boys & Girls Club of Springfield and UScellular. Boys & Girls Club members were encouraged to create an original piece […]
An exclusive extract from the memoir of Frank Murphy of the 100th Bombardment Group of the US Eighth Air Force. At exactly 10.30am on Sunday October 10 1943, the silence in the morning air of the peaceful, pastoral countryside surrounding Thorpe Abbotts, our air base in Norfolk, gave way to the reverberation and roar of […]
Beach Boys star Brian Wilson said “my heart is broken” after announcing the death of his “beloved” wife Melinda Ledbetter Wilson at the age of 77. The US singer-songwriter credited his late wife, who died peacefully at their home on Tuesday, as being the “emotional security” he needed to have a career in the music […]
An American man who founded an orphanage in Haiti in 1985 forced four young boys who lived in the Port-au-Prince facility to engage in sexual activity with him, a federal prosecutor said Friday. Michael Geilenfeld, 71, was indicted in Florida earlier this month on charges of child sexual abuse. Federal prosecutors accuse the St. Joseph’s […]
Two teenage boys who were fatally shot on Friday by masked suspects as they and other students were leaving a Chicago high school have been identified by authorities. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the victims as 17-year-old Monterio Williams and 16-year-old Robert Boston. Both died at a hospital, police said. They were among […]
A member of the Proud Boys extremist group who took selfies in the Senate gallery during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and once told a judge he would “still do it all over again” was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison, federal prosecutors said. Marc Anthony Bru, 44, of Vancouver, Washington, was also […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who stormed the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys extremist group members was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison after he berated and insulted the judge who punished him. Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted Chief Judge James Boasberg before he handed down the sentence, calling him a “clown” and […]
The four boys killed in a crash on Interstate 95 early Monday might still be alive if not for a factor that is especially prevalent in fatal teen accidents: speed. Speeding is a common element of fatal crashes, but much more so with crashes involving young people. Since 2017, speeding was found to be a […]
Editor’s note: This story was originally published Jan. 14, 2015. We update it and re-publish it every year. When this was first written, my editor’s son (who is in the video) was in 6th grade and he’s now a senior in college. Even as time passes, one thing remains the same — boys will wear […]