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A Comstock Park woman faces criminal charges after police say she admitted to creating false Facebook accounts with her ex-boyfriend's personal information to make it appear that his new girlfriend was threatening her. Cheryl Nelson, 52, is charged with false report of a felony and unlawful posting of a message. Nelson, over the course of a year between November 2011 and last October, made at least eight criminal complaints to the Kent County Sheriff's Department, saying she had been the victim of stalking, harassment, assault and home invasion.

As a conservative, I can appreciate certain Republicans' lack of tact in discussing certain topics. I hate political correctness. But there is a pretty large and, honestly, fair consensus that Republican officials hoping for a future should never, ever, dear God, never talk about rape. That's a bandwagon I can happily jump on. I am not a Republican official, however, so I am going to talk about rape; in particular, false accusations thereof. There is a screenshot on the Internet of a Facebook conversation between two women, Cassandra and Nancy. Here is their conversation (any typos or unnecessary punctuation are their own):

A judge has told a woman who falsely claimed she'd been raped by her boyfriend: "This was a wicked, terrible thing to do." Sabrina Booth-Guy, 22, of Lydford Street, Salford, told police that boyfriend Stephen Delaney had raped her in their home. But she

"For six years, one month and 12 days, Jerry Paul Tippins had remained in jail accused of one of the worst things imaginable. But Thursday his longtime proclamations of innocence echoed loudly through a Jacksonville courtroom when he was found not guilty of sexually abusing his 2-year-old daughter."

On a summer day in 1980, 19-year-old Andre Davis stepped off a train 125 miles south of his native Chicago. He expected his visit would last the summer. Little did he know he wouldn't return home for more than 30 years. Andre had just graduated from high school and traveled to the central Illinois town of Rantoul, population 20,000, to learn his father's business. Richard Davis-known as "Crazy Legs" for his brilliant moves on the dance floor-was a disc jockey serving nearby Chanute Air Force Base.