ALHS Legal Studies

San Diego, California (CNN) -- As evidenced by media stories and public awareness campaigns, Americans have resolved to get tough on bullying. In that spirit, it's time to send a message to bullies with badges. We need to tell police who prey on the vulnerable: "No more!

LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska State Patrol investigators said an Upland, Neb., woman arranged sexual encounters with young girls for three men at a price. Michelle Randall, 35, was arrested on suspicion of child pornography and conspiracy to commit child sexual assault. Investigators said the girls in the case are 14 and 7 years old.

that is so wrong

A man wanted by the FBI for killing a mother and daughter and kidnapping two other girls shot himself to death as officers closed in, but the two children were rescued without injuries and released from a hospital Friday.

This is a horrible thing to hear about. I cant imagine what would make someone want to do that to a family. It makes me sick.

Santa Ana, California (CNN) -- A California judge ordered Wednesday that two Fullerton police officers stand trial in the beating death last year of Kelly Thomas, a homeless man with a mental illness. Officer Manuel Ramos is charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, and Cpl.

With thousands of investors coming to Omaha this weekend for the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting, local business are expecting a real surge in profits. One of those businesses is Gorat's Steakhouse.

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Why would you do that to your own daughter? I don't get people anymore.

what a terrible mother!

I agree with everyone above me. I do think that the punishments for both the mother and Alexander were fair.

OAK CREEK, Wis. - An man from Oak Creek has been charged with multiple counts of exposing his son to pornography over the course of several years. The criminal complaint outlines 12 charges of exposing a child to harmful material. According to the complaint, the man began giving his son pornographic DVDs as early as "fifth or sixth grade."

(CNN) -- The FBI said Monday night that a Tennessee mother and her 14-year-old daughter are dead, though the man they believe abducted them -- along with two other daughters -- remains at large. Authorities previously reported that they had found two bodies Friday at a Guntown, Mississippi, residence tied to the kidnapping suspect, Adam Mayes.

Homicide detectives have arrested and preliminarily charged a 14-year-old girl with murder in connection with the stabbing death of her 4-year-old cousin.

Surveillance video shows two children starting a fire outside an Omaha school last week. Authorities said the children intentionally started the fire at a Dumpster next to Walnut Hill Elementary near 45th and Charles streets last Wednesday about 8:30 p.m. In the video, one of the children runs from the fire while the other stays to add more fuel.

A 39-year-old York woman has been fined $250 after pleading no contest in a prescription drug case. Jeannie Linder had been charged with intentional violation of a narcotic drug law. That's a felony that carries a maximum prison sentence offive years. On Friday Linder pleaded no contest to attempted acquisition of a controlled substance by fraud.

Bail is now at $250,000 for a Ralston teacher accused of sexually assaulting children. A judge increased the bail after two more children came forward saying Nicholas Richter touched them inappropriately while they sat on his lap. The 58-year-old now faces five felony counts of sexual assault of a child.

Omaha police said an alert bystander helped them track down a suspected armed robber on Saturday, but it turned into a five-hour standoff.Officers said a man held up the Kwik Shop near 72nd Street and Crown Point Avenue around 3:15 a.m.

FAIRBURY, Neb. - A southeast Nebraska woman has been given life plus 50 years in prison for beating her husband to death. Susan DeJong, 55, was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for the first-degree murder of her husband. DeJong was given 50 years for using a deadly weapon to commit a felony.

well that woman doesn't mess around

Drew Peterson made an appearance in an Illinois courtroom Friday for the first time in almost two years. Friday's hearing was the first step toward a trial in the case that has taken since Peterson's attorneys appealed the admissibility of hearsay statements made by his dead ex-wife. Peterson's attorneys eventually lost that appeal.

An Iowa mother is accused of forcing her son's head under a bathtub faucet, drowning the 15-month old. Onawa police said they believe Ashley Cameron, 25, planned the whole thing.

BURLINGTON - Police are asking the public to be on the lookout for a man accused of stabbing his wife inside a Burlington home on Thursday.

Police say an Omaha man who came to the aid of a student near Monroe Middle School was shot Thursday morning. Thirty-year-old Dallas Waters told police while driving at 51st and Bedford just before 11:30 a.m. he noticed two teenaged boys pushing a school-aged girl on the sidewalk.

FRANKLIN, Neb. - Three members of a south-central Nebraska family are in jail in connection with the death of a 2-year-old boy. Franklin County authorities said family members brought Joseph Rinehart to a hospital on Monday evening. He was unresponsive when he arrived at the hospital and later pronounced dead.