Posts Tagged Social affairs

No bail for Pa. parents in faith-healing death

This undated file photo combination provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Herbert and Catherine Schaible. At a bail hearing Friday, May 24, 2013, a Philadelphia judge ordered the couple, who believe in faith healing over medicine, be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son, Brandon. They previously had been convicted of involuntary manslaughter after another child, 2-year-old Kent, died in 2009.  (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department, File)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.

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Judge: Ariz. sheriff’s office profiles Latinos

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America’s self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.

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Principal recounts storm hitting Oklahoma school

A man walks in the rubble of the Plaza Towers elementary school in Moore, Okla., Friday, May 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Teachers and students at Plaza Towers Elementary School hunkered down against the storm just as they had been taught in countless tornado drills, their principal said Friday, recounting how she walked the halls until the twister was on the doorstep, then announced on the intercom, “It’s here.”

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UNM revokes frat’s charter over conduct violations

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The University of New Mexico has revoked the charter of a fraternity over several violations of the student code of conduct.

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Friday, May 24, 2013

UK braces for unrest after soldier’s slaying while also reviewing whether it missed warnings

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