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Simon McCormack is an editorial assistant for the Huffington Post. He lives in New York City.

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Mickey Shunick Search Continues, Friend Says 'We Feel Strongly That She's Alive' (PHOTOS)

(0) Comments | Posted May 22, 2012 | 3:30 PM

Louisiana college student Mickey Shunick has been missing since early Saturday morning.

She never made it home after leaving a friend's house in Lafayette, La., around 2 a.m., according to the Lafayette Police Department. But her longtime friend Lindsay Beggs said she believes the 22-year-old...

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Lysol Allegedly Sprayed At Prom By Chaperones

(2) Comments | Posted May 15, 2012 | 4:27 PM

These prom chaperones are accused of both saying it and spraying it.

Two parents allegedly doused dirty-dancing teens at Manitou Springs High School with Lysol and called female students "whores" and "sluts," according to the Denver Channel.

The parents, Jennifer Farmer and Hannah Rockey, deny the accusations about...

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Krista Mann Accused Of Leaving Her Children In Car While Tanning

(0) Comments | Posted May 10, 2012 | 8:28 AM

Mom's with a lust for tanning be warned: the PR gods are not in your favor.

The same day the so-called "Tanning Mom," Patricia Krentcil, was banned from New Jersey tanning salons, WHTM reported that another matriarch with a hankering for UV rays is in trouble in Elizabethtown,...

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Jeffrey Radle, Scott Walker Supporter, Jumps In Front Of Wife's Car To Prevent Opposing Vote

(2) Comments | Posted May 9, 2012 | 1:32 PM

Chippewa Falls, Wis. police said Jeffrey Radle jumped in front of his wife's car to keep her from voting against Gov. Scott Walker in the state's Republican primary, according to the Journal Sentinel.

Radle is a Walker supporter and his wife, Amanda, is not. So when...

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Judge Drops 1 Charge In GA Jaywalking Death Case

(16) Comments | Posted October 5, 2011 | 7:13 PM

MARIETTA, Ga. -- A Georgia judge has dismissed one charge against a woman convicted of vehicular homicide after her 4-year-old son died as they jaywalked, but she's still considering whether to drop two other charges.

Attorney Steve Sadow asked Cobb County State Court Judge Kathryn Tanksley to drop all charges...

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Jury Hears Closings Over Child Thrown Off Walkway

(12) Comments | Posted October 5, 2011 | 7:04 PM

FAIRFAX, Va. — It was hate and revenge – not insanity – that drove a Virginia woman to toss her 2-year-old granddaughter to her death from a sixth-level pedestrian bridge at the state's largest shopping mall, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Jurors heard closing arguments Wednesday in the murder trial of...

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2 Divers Say Their Fla. Charter Boat Stranded Them

(1) Comments | Posted October 5, 2011 | 7:00 PM

MIAMI -- Two deep-sea divers say their charter boat stranded them three miles off Key Biscayne in the shark-infested Atlantic.

The men, 44-year-old Paul Kline and Fernando Garcia Puerta, a tourist from Spain, clung to a fishing buoy until passengers on a passing yacht spotted them.

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