Ruling Makes It Harder To Give Young Offenders Adult Sentences
                   
citynews.ca     May 16, 2008            

Young people who commit serious crimes no longer have to prove they should be sentenced as children after the Supreme Court delivered a landmark youth justice ruling Friday. Under the law youths between 14 and 17 had to convince a judge not to sentence them as adults, but that will change after... [read full story]                    


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Teen charged in killing

jsonline.com     16 mins ago          

Gang feud blamed in man’s death By CROCKER STEPHENSON cstephenson@journalsentinel.com An all-too-familiar complaint was filed Wednesday, charging a Milwaukee teen with the fatal shooting of another teen over what appears to be...                    

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Fake Lake: The Neo-futurists Get Wet

chicagoist.com     35 mins ago          

Trying to make sense of "a life so easy if feels hard," playwright and performer Sharon Greene heads camping with a group of people she barely knows. What could have been the hook of a teen horror movie is instead the basis for...                    

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Rebecca Hagelin: The Culture Battle

townhall.com     48 mins ago          

Who will Obama pick to be his VP? The real-life headlines for some parents have been more like nightmares: A “pregnancy pact” that plagued a small town in Massachusetts; teens trading nude photos of their girlfriends on...                    

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Relative: Teen in drug death falsely accused

unionleader.com     49 mins ago          

BEDFORD - The Manchester teen charged with providing a Bedford high school student with the drug that killed him last spring has been falsely accused, according to a family member who said that other people also were involved...                    

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