Rutabaga64's Articles In Current Events
March 7, 2006 by Rutabaga64
We've had a lot of celebrity deaths recently, everyone from Don Knotts to Kirby Puckett, but seeing this news when I looked at the CNN website this morning shook me up the most. Dana Reeve, Christopher Reeve's widow, has passed away at the age of 45, due to the lung cancer that she announced she'd been diagnosed with last fall. It seems extraordinarily cruel, after everything she'd been through in the last few years of her life, and all the grace and dignity she'd shown during those last ...
January 28, 2006 by Rutabaga64
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to breed. Pregnant mom of 14 arrested; 3 kids found in abandoned house MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A pregnant woman has been taken into custody after three of her 14 children, showing signs of abuse, were found taking refuge in an abandoned house, police said Friday. "The kids told us that the suspect regularly punches them with her fists and hits them with a broomstick and belt," police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said. Twin 9-year-old ...