FAIRBANKS — A grand jury indicted a Fort Wainwright man Thursday on 13 counts of possession and distribution of child pornography. State troopers and Army investigators arrested the man, 27-year-old Whitney Cole, on Friday, one year after state investigators seized five computers and three hard drives from his Army post home. The teams later downloaded 346 images of child porn from the equipment.

A 12-member jury said he was guilty. But Martin Romero refused to believe it. He had just listened to a week of testimony from medical experts and his 17-year-old daughter describing years of sexual abuse that started when she was 4 years old. The physical evidence was overwhelming. The girl had internal injuries consistent with sexual abuse over a long period of time.

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MARTINSVILLE, Ind. — An 11-year-old boy is being charged with murder in the shooting death of his 6-year-old brother.Andrew Frye was shot in the head with a .22-caliber gun at his home south of Martinsville on Thursday afternoon, the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department said.The 11-year-old was the only other person at home, just east of State Road 37, at the time of the shooting, and he called 911 afterward, police said.

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Tyrone Hill, 37, is charged with trying to kidnap a 2-year-old boy at North Avenue Beach on July 2, 2011.

CHICAGO– Bond was denied Sunday for a convicted sex offender charged with trying to kidnap a 2-year-old boy from North Avenue Beach. Tyrone Hill, 37, has been charged with one count of attempted aggravated kidnapping of a child under 13 and one count of unlawful restraint, according to the Chicago Police Department.

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Family members said the search will continue daily through Wednesday. The search by volunteers comes a day after law enforcement authorities completed their ground search. The Mason County Sheriff’s Department, the Michigan State Police, the FBI and the U.S. Coast Guard conducted the search.

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All cribs now must pass tough new safety rules

As of Tuesday, law forbids selling older models — even used — that don’t meet stringent regulations

Starting Tuesday, it will be illegal in the U.S. to sell or even donate a crib that fails to meet the toughest crib safety rules in the world. Newly required safety tests are so stringent that few cribs in American homes — even those that have escaped recall after recall — are sturdy enough to pass them. As a result, federal regulators recommend that families that can afford to do so buy new cribs and destroy their old ones.

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Casey Anthony trial: Now, we wait

After 35 days, dozens of witnesses, the jury begins deliberations.

Jury deliberations are now underway in the first-degree murder trial of Casey Anthony. Following several weeks of testimony, the 12 member jury will be taken into a deliberation room, where they will stay until a verdict is reached. All 17 jurors were escorted from the courtroom, but the alternates were separated from the 12 members who will decide Casey Anthony’s fate.

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PICO RIVERA, CA — Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a 6-year-old boy in a bathroom at park in Pico Rivera. The boy reported being molested in a bathroom stall just after 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Rio Hondo Park. Sheriff’s officials say the boy was at the park with family members for a soccer match when he went into the bathroom alone.

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Arizona executed a man Thursday for molesting and fatally bludgeoning a 9-year-old girl in a case that spread fear through Flagstaff and the rest of the state. Richard Lynn Bible, 49, received an injection at the state prison in Florence and died at 11:11 a.m. He was convicted of kidnapping, molesting and killing Jennifer Wilson of Yuma while she was on vacation with her family in Flagstaff in June 1988. She had spoken with her mother only moments before she disappeared.

LOS ANGELES– A 32-year-old man is under arrest for allegedly molesting children at a public swimming pool in Los Angeles. Darnell Island, of Compton, is accused of touching female children inappropriately at the Ted Watkins Memorial Park Pool on East 103rd Street. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies were contacted by L.A. County Parks and Recreation lifeguards working at the pool.

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Sexual harassment is unwanted and unwelcomed sexual behavior which interferes with your right to get an education or to participate in school activities. In school, sexual harassment may result from someone’s words, gestures or actions (of a sexual nature) that make you feel uncomfortable, embarrassed, offended, demeaned, frightened, helpless or threatened. If you are the target of sexual harassment, it may be very scary to go to school or hard to concentrate on your school work.

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IN COMMUNITIES OF ALL SIZES and shapes, parents face multiple challenges that may inhibit their ability to effectively raise and support their children. For example, the U.S. adolescent birth rate (43 for every 1,000 females aged 15-19 in 2002, results in teens who are often unprepared to take on the tasks of parenthood. The increasing incidence of parental substance abuse, child abuse and neglect (often related to substance abuse), parental AIDS, incarceration divorce, and desertion have resulted in substantially higher rates of children being raised by grandparents.

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KIDNAPPED INFANT BELIEVED TO BE IN DANGER

MICHIGAN— Police in Ludington, Mich., have issued an amber alert for a 4-month-old child. The child was last seen Wednesday afternoon at 922 E. Tinkham Road in Ludington, police said.Police described the child, Katherine Phillips, as 2 feet 2 inches tall with blue eyes and no hair. She was last seen wearing pink shorts with a matching pink top with black and pink flowers. On Thursday, police said Sean Phillips had been charged with kidnapping. Katherine was with Phillips when she went missing, police said. He is being held at the Mason County Jail on a $500,000 bond.

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