Mom: Gunmen demand dad in kid's place
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Gunmen who kidnapped a three-year-old British girl in Nigeria have threatened to kill her unless her father takes her place, her mother has said.
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TIJUANA/NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico  - Cristina Palacios  was sitting with her son Alejandro in a car in the crime-ridden  Mexican city of Tijuana on the U.S. border when three men armed  with assault rifles came for him.
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Blog: Provocative video installation by Iraqi-born artist aims to provide metaphor for danger confinement faced by family and friends back home.
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The day began shortly after 6 a.m. for a mother of three in Southwest Washington with the wail of police sirens and the sight of SWAT team members, guns drawn, swarming the block outside her red brick home at First and O streets. They were searching for the shooter of a 15-year-old boy in the nearby...
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NEW YORK  - Most households where kids  visit do not safely store guns or household chemicals that can  act as deadly poisons, new research shows.
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UNION, Mo., Sept. 16 -- A grandmother of a newborn girl stolen from a rural home pleaded Saturday for the baby's safe return, as authorities searched for an abductor who stabbed and seriously injured the infant's mother before fleeing with the child.
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Isolated shots rang out as a group of worried parents entered a besieged mosque in Islamabad on Friday to collect children caught up in a deadly stand-off between Islamic radical students and security forces.
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ALBANY, Ore. - An Albany father used a 100,000-volt stun gun on his 18-month-old son, police said Monday. Rian Whittman, 23, has been accused of assault and criminal mistreatment. Police said he used it &quot;multiple times&quot; over three weeks.
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THE family of a British engineer kidnapped in Iraq by gunmen last night begged for his release. Relatives of 62-year-old Ken Bigley said they were struggling to understand why the dad-of-one was targeted along with two Americans.
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BEITUNIYA, West Bank, July 20 -- Israeli police arrested Faten Daraghmeh four years ago in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel. The mother of seven children wore a vest packed with explosives, and she later informed her family that she had planned to blow herself up inside a crowded shopping...
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The battle between a US woman's husband and parents over whether to keep her alive takes a new twist.
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By Louis Galvan, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 8--As flames devoured a Calwa home early Wednesday and rescuers tried to break through security bars blocking windows and doors, neighbors could hear the cries of a little girl trapped inside.  "She was shouting, 'Mommy, Mommy.
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The woman who killed her minister husband with a shotgun is seeking custody of her three daughters, or at least frequent visits.
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Three-year-old is first foreign child to be taken, but residents blame criminals rather than insurgents.
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Mother of three-year-old snatched in Nigeria says the kidnappers phoned and threatened to kill her daughter.
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Gabe: You might have seen this story on CNN about the teens that murdered a homeless guy and then equated it to the sort of thrill one might get from a violent video game. There will be plenty of articles focusing on these kids and their crime. I"d like to take a second and talk about the parents of these teenagers instead. It is the job of a parent to teach their children certain rules. Obviously the rules themselves and the emphasis each family places on them will vary, but there are certain universal constants that these parents obviously failed to pass on.
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Iraqi children are haunted by dreams of bad guys wielding knives or kidnapping relatives. For some, like 13-year-old Zaman, the nightmares become reality. She was abducted, beaten and threatened with rape.