Texas weighs moving 1 million as Ike looms

Seeded on Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:59 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Thousands of Texans in one county were urged to evacuate Wednesday as Hurricane Ike neared, while officials weighed ordering a mandatory evacuation of 1 million people in a second county.

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Principal's outing of gay student roils Fla. town

Seeded on Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:02 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her away from children.

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Defense: Law stretched in MySpace suicide case

Seeded on Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:40 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

A defense attorney for the Missouri woman charged in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide argued in court papers that prosecutors are bending a cyber crime statute to prosecute his client.

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