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Teen charged with decapitating mother in North Carolina
Deputies in Franklin County, North Carolina have charged a teen with murder after his mother was decapitated Monday in what the sheriff described as a “gruesome scene.”
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Registered sex offender charged with infant’s murder in Boone
A registered sex offender is behind bars on more than a million dollar bond after police charged him with the murder of a 10-month-old boy in Boone.
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Broken faith: Ex-sect members say prosecutors obstructed abuse cases
At least a half-dozen times during two decades, authorities investigated reports that members of a secretive evangelical church were being beaten. And every time, according to former congregants, the orders came down from church leaders: They must lie to protect the sect.
Among the members of the Word of Faith Fellowship who coached congregants and their children on what to say to investigators were two assistant district attorneys and a veteran social worker, the ex-followers told The Associated Press.
But there is only a modest danger of encountering a transgender in a public restroom so, overall I guess, it all balances out.