Transmitting what he has ... Ray Polk is a one-man social agency, offering food, clothes, counseling and a makeshift chapel to his fellow denizens of the streets.

The wife of a military officer shot and killed her son on the way to soccer practice, then drove to their upscale home and shot her daughter in the head while she studied at her computer, police said Friday.

A controversial campaign designed by a local ad firm aims to humanize the gritty image of those practising the world's oldest profession.

"Handcuffed, dragged away through ice and snow and imprisoned just for wearing a hat? That's a joke. That's not possible. No cop is that foolish. But it is true. Peter Eyre was caged yesterday in Keene, New Hampshire for that very offense.

Leon Walker of Rochester Hills, Mich., is facing felony charges under an anti-hacking statute. Walker hacked into his wife's Gmail account to check up on her.

BEIJING - China has sentenced a woman to a year in a labor camp for "disrupting social order" by retweeting a satirical message urging Chinese protesters to smash the Japan pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, an international rights group said.

Last July, a jury ruled that because a woman danced in a club, she'd consented to her breasts being forcibly exposed in Girls Gone Wild Sorority Orgy, despite saying no and signing no consent form. Thankfully, there's some good news

Under orders of Nouri al- Maliki and on the eve of his trip to Tehran, yet another good will gesture to Iranian regime, was thrashed onto Camp Ashraf residents this evening. Iraqi forces attacked Ashraf residents by firing bullets, and ‎using sticks and truncheons.

This video needs no introduction. Please watch it - and please remember that these kinds of people vote... Oh my G-d.

So like the title says, "Bad Decisions" make good stories. I think that must be because we learn the most when we get it wrong.

At long last, Saudi Arabia has found a way to let women drive cars in the KSA.

This is about a girl with the street name Marisa, a Honduran working in San Pedro at a ficha bar across the street from Belize Bank. She was owned by a Chinese group, openly known for having girls for sale.

This is an account by a Dr.who worked on the same day.

(CBS) We are all constantly bombarded by messages to lose weight and get in shape, but one Montreal nightclub has taken to outright banning those who don't drop the pounds - at least for one night. Last week, the Facebook page of Muzique posted an ad for a party that read "NO F …

Last Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court suspended Kansas City attorney Chauncey M. Depew from practicing law for a year for, among other depravity, leaving a note on an administrative assistant's desk that read, "I want to lick your butt."

And there's a whole lot more.

TRINIDAD, Colo. - This picturesque southern Colorado town known for decades as the sex-change capital of the world -- thousands of gender-reassignment operations have been performed here -- is becoming a beacon for victims of female genital mutilation.

The New Jersey parents who gave their children Nazi-inspired names including Adolf Hitler lost custody after a state appeals court ruled that a history of domestic violence puts the children at risk of abuse and neglect.

A 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives in a gruesome Turkish honour killing - because she befriended boys.

Zach Bonner is at it again. While most kids his age are reveling in the last few weeks of summer vacation, Zach is trudging across the Arizona desert — wearing out his shoes and his tiny body in the name of charity.

'In the first place, we should insist that "if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed,  …

Originally published in August 2009, re-published here in part, copyright. Maddad Part One: Part Two:

As some of you may know I served in the United States Navy during the Iran- Iraq War. I was on a Guided Missle Destroyer, escorting oilers in and out of the Persian Gulf, as Iran took every opportuity to fire on them, with little regard for our presence. Fun Times!

The global jihad rages on.

Alice Dreger and Ellen K. Feder from Bioethics Forum have unearthed a 2007 study in which a doctor from Cornell University defends the practice of surgically cutting girls' clitorises. Disturbing, but his follow-up treatment is even worse..

"It was in 1968 or 1969, and I was a young intern counseling a girl from one of South Africa's townships, who'd been raped. She said, 'If only I had teeth down there,'" Ehlers told AOL News. "And I thought, God, it would be great to make something that could really be useful."

It should have been a happy summer for Michael Clauer. The Texas Army National Guard captain was winding down his time in Iraq, preparing for a new unit to arrive and replace him and the 130 service members under his command.

In a television appearance on Thursday to extol the virtues of a portable computer his socialist government plans to introduce at public schools, Chavez said youngsters had stopped him in the street to tell him they saw him on television.

The Oakland Press reports that three men convicted of burning a cross near the home of a black family will serve at least 120 days in jail.

St. Petersburg, Florida--Nearly 90 workers are now out a job. Sunday was the last day workers could stand on street corners in St. Petersburg to sell the Sunday newspaper because of a new panhandler ban that's put the brakes on all roadside collections.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that say the information police and prosecutors have shows that that Cruz was attempting to honor his wife's wishes by ending her life. He then planned on killing himself.

As a Cal State Northridge associate professor, Kenneth Ng spends his days teaching students the principles of economics: markets, monetary policy, interest rates. But in his free time, Ng focuses on a very different kind of market: sex tourism in Thailand.