| Mother charged with cruelty and abuse
The little boy was reportedly beaten twice to the point of unconsciousness.
When child protection investigator Sally Beckett interviewed him in November, he begged her not to reveal what hed told her or hed get a double whipping.
The boy was one of seven children removed by the Department of Children and Families from Emose Oceants Cape Coral home. Investigators have alleged the 35-year-old abused at least five of her children with belts and boards. They claim in reports the children slept in the woods and on urine-stained sheets in a garage for offenses such as playing too nice with the others.
In 44 pages of discovery documents prepared by Cape Coral police Detective Melinda Behrens and released by the state attorneys office, new details have emerged about Oceant, whom police say moved to Cape Coral from Port St.
Smith rejects firearms review call
Mark Bonini, 27, was jailed for his murder and the youngster's mother, Sharon McMillan, 36, has campaigned for a change in the law. And two years ago in East Calder 32-year-old Graeme Baxter was killed when an air pellet pierced his heart. Mr MacAskill wrote to the Home Secretary in January inviting her to join the Scottish Government in gathering police, gun control campaigners and shooting interests for a summit on firearms misuse. Replying last week, she said she did "not believe it would be timely to hold a joint national firearms summit" and dismissed calls for an immediate review of the 1968 Firearms Act. .
Your guide to the Section III boys and girls basketball tournaments
Preaster, no doubt, would like to go out a winner, and winning a third straight Section III title would be quite a sendoff for the Proctor senior, considering he was the only starter returning from last year's championship team. West Canada Valley's Indians, meanwhile, are 20-0 and seeded No. 1 in Class C-2 for the second straight year. And you can bet senior starters Jeff Yaworski, Rip McKerrow, Dan DeKalb and Ben Maxwell are determined to make all of the Kuyahoora Valley forget how last season ended - with a double-overtime loss to Frankfort-Schuyler in the Class C-2 final. Cooperstown (C-1) and Richfield Springs (D-1) are the other two are teams seeded first in the playoffs. The tournament is "open" to any team, regardless of regular-season record, but several area schools chose not to participate this year, including Camden in Class A, Ilion and Canastota in Class B, and Poland, Owen D.
XC70 Volvo 'more macho'
Nothing says "you've had a few children, stopped having sex, given up on life and traded in the spicy coupe" as much as a big old family station wagon. In the past, station wagons were basically a sedan with an annexe out the back to shove luggage, the children's toys, the dog and the mother-in-law. I'm kidding . . . it would be a bit mean to shove Fido in the back. Today's station wagon has been reinvented with snappier silhouettes that curve like a coupe, have shorter overhangs and snazzy names like Sportwagon. The Volvo XC70 is a toughened all-wheel-drive version of its big, lumbering V70 wagon and now the updated model comes with a few new styling cues that make it more macho. Despite the Volvo badge, this wagon certainly doesn't say: "I've given up on sex." Even so, the new model is a family wagon with several safety and family-friendly features such as world-first two-stage integrated child booster seats in the rear, extended rear curtain airbags, stronger side structures, two-stage airbags, seatbelt pretensioners, improved crumple zones, rear parking alerts, a stack of advanced electronic driver aids, whiplash protection etc.
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