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Reports of hate crimes against gays and religious groups increased sharply in 2008, according to FBI data released Monday.
Several family members who say they were sexually abused as children by adult relatives remember being taken to various locations and photographed with naked men, police investigators said in a search warrant released Thursday.
Authorities investigating six family members accused in a series of sexual assaults involving young relatives dating back to the 1980s seized booklets and magazines depicting incest from the family's home.
A sixth member of a family facing child sex abuse charges in western Missouri has been charged with rape in connection with the case.
A Jewish-American extremist charged Thursday with shooting to death two Palestinians and trying to kill others with explosive devices and poison said he had no regrets and was sure God approved of his actions.
U.N. judges trimmed the sentence Thursday of a Bosnian Serb general from 33 to 29 years but upheld his convictions for leading troops who terrorized Sarajevo with a deadly rain of shells and sniper bullets.
Authorities have seized several items, including pornography, computer equipment and weapons, from the home of one of six men charged in a child sex abuse case in western Missouri.
In a Nov. 7 story about the racial issues in a New York community a year after the stabbing death of an Ecuadorean immigrant, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of one of the defendants charged in the immigrant's death. His correct name is Anthony Hartford, not Harfford.
The high school buddies who trolled the streets looking for Hispanics to attack called it "beaner hopping."
The U.N. war crimes tribunal ruled Thursday that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will be appointed a lawyer to represent him whenever he fails to appear in court.
Israeli authorities have arrested a Jewish-American extremist suspected of carrying out a series of high-profile hate crimes, security officials said Sunday.
For this accomplishment, President Barack Obama sought maximum publicity.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed and celebrated hate crime legislation that extends protection to people based on sexual orientation, sealing a long-fought victory to gay advocates. The president spoke of a nation becoming a place where "we're all free to live and love as we see fit."
British lawyers looking for ways to hold Israel accountable for its deadly advance into Gaza last year have expanded their legal campaign by seeking the arrest of Israeli military officers entering Britain.
Radovan Karadzic appeared at his U.N. war crimes trial on Tuesday for the first time since it began last week, claiming his "fundamental rights have been violated" by judges who started without him.
Bosnia's top official canceled a diplomatic visit to Sweden on Wednesday, angry that the Swedish government chose to grant Bosnian Serb war criminal Biljana Plavsic an early release from jail.
An international tribunal has upheld the sentences for three rebel leaders convicted of crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone.
Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law Congress approved Thursday and sent to President Barack Obama.
U.N. prosecutors opened their genocide case against Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday — despite his continued boycott of the case — calling him the "undisputed leader" of Serbs responsible for atrocities throughout Bosnia's brutal four-year war.
Prosecutors on Monday accused a Sudanese rebel leader of planning an attack that killed 12 African peacekeepers, in the first Darfur case to reach an international tribunal.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted Friday to endorse a Gaza war crimes report that calls on Israel and Hamas to carry out credible investigations into alleged abuses — or face possible referral to international war crimes prosecutors.
The International Criminal Court said Thursday it has launched a preliminary investigation into last month's violence at a Guinea sports stadium, where presidential guard troops opened fire on tens of thousands of demonstrators.
Dueling has become less common over the past couple centuries. Likewise, the concern about prizefights.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted Friday to endorse a report on last winter's Gaza conflict that calls on Israel and authorities in Gaza to carry out credible investigations into alleged abuses — or face possible referral to international war crimes prosecutors.
A House vote Thursday put Congress on the verge of significantly expanding hate crimes law to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation. The legislation would bring major changes to law enacted in the days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968.
Elderly Psychiatrist Gives Up License for "recycling" drugs to patientsEL CAJON — An El Cajon psychiatrist has surrendered his medical license to California authorities after investigators said he collected unused prescription drugs, including addictive pain pills, from some patients and handed them out to others.
Antidepressant Drugs Put People Into 'Drug-Induced States' NOT treatmentContrary to the impression promoted by the psychiatric and drug industries, psychiatric drugs do not work by correcting a chemical imbalance in the brain, Joanna Moncrieff of University College London wrote recently in an opinion piece for the BBC.
Is binge eating a psychiatric disorder? Especially since most if not all of the prescribed medications for psychiatric "disorders" carry "significant weight gain" & diabetes as side effects.
British NHS Promotes pharma to children Britain's National Health Service is losing a fight against the Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research — a web site that publicizes the underbelly of psychiatric medicine — over brochures for children that tell them how to take antipsychotic medicines such as Johnson …
Children on Anti-Psychotics 3 times more likely to develop DiabetesThe study suggests youth taking certain types of anti-psychotic medications have three times the risk of developing abnormally high blood sugars or Type 2 diabetes and two times the risk of being overweight or obese.
Legislative Debate Speeches Ghostwritten by Pharma lobbyStatements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world's largest biotechnology companies.
Florida teachers who have been accused of misconduct25 pictures and briefs. Bad Teachers
Antidepressants Cause Suicide & Violence in Soldiers-noted Psychiatrist saysHere are the starting facts: Death by suicide is at record levels in the armed services. Simultaneously the use of antidepressant drugs is also at record levels, including brand names like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa and Lexapro.
Mother's Antidepressant use linked to Children's Health RisksNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies whose mothers used antidepressants during pregnancy visit the doctor more often and have higher risks of certain health problems than other children their age, a new study suggests.
Spamers Use Pharma Model for Luring CustomersWelcome to the "fakeosphere." Internet marketing veteran and analyst Jay Weintraub says fake blogs – or flogs – fake news sites and manufactured testimonials are the fastest-growing segment of Internet advertising.
Nursing Home Pharmacy Provider Omnicare, Teva to pay $112 million for kickbacks"J&J's kickbacks to Omnicare took multiple forms, including rebates that were conditioned on Omnicare engaging in an 'Active Intervention Program' for Risperdal and payments disguised as data purchase fees, educational grants, and fees to attend Omnicare meetings," the Justice De …
Tinseltown gets the big picture on psychiatry - it sucks...your Money mostly, but it also sucks the life out of just about every demographic group it purports to help or rather "treat".
A Manufactured "Epidemic"Excerpts from Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
The NEWEST childhood "mental disorder"- Parental AlienationThe concept of parental alienation, which is highly controversial, is being described as one in which children strongly attach to one parent and reject the other in the false belief that he or she is bad or dangerous
The Corrupt Alliance of the Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical IndustryExamples of the conflicts of interest between pharma & the APA.
5 things to know about psychotropics Illinois Dept. Public Health releases guidelines for elderly care in light of recent claims of abuses.
Sen. Grassley: drug companies should disclose payments"Public trust and public dollars are at stake," Grassley said. "People rely on medical advice and taxpayers spend billions of dollars on prescription drugs and devices through Medicare and Medicaid.
Grassley's NAMI Probe May Want to Look at Pfizer Whistleblower SuitSen. Charles Grassley is investigating the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the New York Times reports. He might want to look into Pfizer's $2.3 billion Bextra settlement as one of the suits within it made some juicy claims about how NAMI works.
"I Will Never Know Why" --Susan Klebold talks about ColumbineYes, he had filled notebook pages with his private thoughts and feelings, repeatedly expressing profound alienation. But we'd never seen those notebooks. And yes, he'd written a school paper about a man in a black trenchcoat who brutally murders nine students.
Pharma funds 3/4 of NAMI budget"...according to investigators in Mr. Grassley's office and documents obtained by The New York Times, drug makers from 2006 to 2008 contributed nearly $23 million to the alliance, about three-quarters of its donations."
ADHD or Einstein, Edison, Beethoven, Caruso, and Churchill???Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and he didn't read until he was seven. The instructors described him as mentally slow, unsociable and a dreamer. He was later expelled from school.
ADHD Ritalin child 500% greater sudden death risk"Still, the FDA refuses to take action. No new warnings are planned and prescriptions for Ritalin continue to spiral upward. Objections to the FDA's sluggishness are even starting to appear in conservative medical journals like JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Associ …
Anna Nicole & Prescribing Psychiatrist Involved Intimately Prosecutor Alleges"There was a sexual relationship that happened in the past and possibly carrying into the future. It was the motive for Dr. Eroshevich to provide excessive medication to Anna Nicole Smith." "There are ulterior motives for Dr. Eroshevich's actions.
Federal probe of L.A. County children's agency soughtFrom January 2008 to early August 2009, at least 268 children who had passed through the child welfare system died -- many of them violently -- The Times reported Sunday. What more needs be said.
The True Face of PsychiatryForget George Orwell & Philip K. Dick, the REAL 1984 happened in 1940 & nowadays its called "Perception Management".
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