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A 17 year Saudi girl takes dad to court after he tricked her into marrying man in his 90s

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A Saudi girl called the police on her father after he tricked her into marrying a man in his 90s..
According to Gulfnews.com, the 17-year-old had initially accepted her father’s wish for her to marry a handsome man in his 20s after meeting the groom-to-be at her house.
But to her surprise ,when the wedding contract was drawn up, she discovered that the paperwork showed her new husband was a different man in his 90s who lived in another city.
 
She then fled home and called police to prevent her being sent to her new groom in Medina.
The case was eventually taken to the court which on Tuesday issued its verdict to declare the marriage “null and void”.
Social media users blasted the father for his behaviour accusing him of “selling his daughter to the old man.”They said that legal action should be taken against him for his abuse of his daughter’s trust and for chartering a horrible future for her.

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US: Judge strikes down Wisconsin same-sex marriage ban

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APPLETON, Wis. — Same-sex couples are ready to tie the knot in some parts of Wisconsin after a federal judge ruled Friday that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
 
U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb struck down the ban, making Wisconsin the 27th state where same-sex couples can marry under law or where a judge has ruled they ought to be allowed to wed.
 
It wasn't clear whether Crabb's 88-page ruling cleared the way for same-sex marriages to begin immediately, but Milwaukee and Dane county officials began issuing licenses and officiants were at the clerk's office ready to go in Dane County. Both counties were keeping clerk's office open past regular closing hours Friday.
 
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says he will seek an emergency federal court order to stop the marriages in light of clerks going ahead with marriages.
 
Meanwhile, Outagamie and Winnebago county clerks told Post-Crescent earlier Friday, prior to the ruling, that they would not extend office hours it the ban were lifted. The clerks offices were closing up shop for the weekend when the judge issued her ruling on Friday afternoon.
 
"We're not going to be running any additional hours. I don't for opposite-sex couples so we're going to have the same hours," Outagamie County Clerk Lori O'Bright.
 
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in February on behalf of four gay couples, then later expanded to eight, challenging Wisconsin's constitutional ban on gay marriage. Messages left with ACLU's attorneys were not immediately returned Friday.
 
The lawsuit alleged that Wisconsin's ban violates the plaintiffs' constitutional rights to equal protection and due process, asserting the prohibition deprives gay couples of the legal protections that married couples enjoy simply because of their gender.
 
State marriage bans have been falling around the country since the U.S. Supreme Court last year struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
 
Regardless of the wait times and uncertainties, community members are preparing for same-sex couples to marry in the Appleton area.
 
Fox Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Appleton will be open on Monday to perform same-sex marriages for anyone who wants a religious ceremony, said the Rev. Roger Bertschausen, the fellowship's senior pastor.
 
"We'll be open all day. They don't have to call us. They can just come by," Bertschausen said.
 
Couple Dottie Mathews and Rosie Geiser also hope to be performing weddings.
 
"We're licensed to do weddings, I'm an ordained minister, Rosie is a lay minister. We hope next week we're really busy performing wedding ceremonies for people," Mathews said.
 
Voters amended the Wisconsin Constitution in 2006, to outlaw gay marriage or anything substantially similar. The state has offered a domestic partner registry that affords gay couples a host of legal rights since 2009, but its future is in doubt; the conservative-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court is currently weighing whether it violates the constitution.
 
Republican Gov. Scott Walker, a potential 2016 Republican candidate for president, has a long history of opposing gay marriage and Wisconsin's 2009 domestic registry law. But in recent months he's avoided talking directly about the state's ban, which he supported, saying it's an issue that needs to be decided by the courts and state voters who can amend the constitution.
 
Walker's likely Democratic challenger in the governor's race, Mary Burke, supports legalizing gay marriage.
 
Contributing: The Associated Press
 

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Teacher in birth control suit accused of assault

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PEEKSKILL, N.Y. – A teacher suing the Peekskill schools for allegedly taking his then-16-year-old daughter to an off-campus health clinic where she was prescribing birth control pills was accused by the district in 2011 of assaulting the colleague who allegedly helped her get the pills.
 
Records obtained by The Journal News under the Freedom of Information Law also show that another incident involving an assault in January prompted the school district to place Anthony Jackson on paid administrative leave, pending an investigation.
 
On June 24, 2011, Jackson "entered the office of his colleague with the intention of discussing an incident that had occurred involving the colleague, the colleague's wife, and the employee's daughter," according to the records. "While in the colleague's office, the employee acted in an unprofessional and inappropriate manner by assaulting the colleague."
 
Jackson and his wife, Eva, filed a lawsuit May 30 in state Supreme Court that accused Peekskill High School psychologist James Tosto and his wife, Dawn, of conspiring to provide their daughter with birth control pills in 2011 without the parents' knowledge. Dawn Tosto works at the Hudson River Community Health Center.
 
The Jacksons allege in court papers that their daughter took the pills until they found out about it and that the examination took place in June 2011, when the girl was a student in the district.
 
Under a January 2012 agreement with the district, following the assault, Jackson was fined 15 days pay, issued a letter of reprimand, asked to complete an anger-management program and told that a "repeat" of the type of conduct would result in dismissal if the charges were proven.
 
In a letter dated Jan. 22 of this year, the district told Jackson that "there will be an investigation to determine whether there was (a) violation of the agreement between you and the Peekskill City School District dated January 10, 2012."
 
The Peekskill Board of Education called the Jacksons' lawsuit an "intimidation tactic aimed to bring disrepute to the Board and the school district."
 
The board's statement said Jackson is an employee of the Peekskill City School District "who has been reassigned to home since January 2014 due to a pending disciplinary matter."
 
Records show that Jackson joined the district in September 2001 and is currently listed as a teacher at Woodside Elementary School. A resident of Newburgh, his children attended Peekskill schools because of his status as a teacher there.

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US: 3-alarm fire near Rockefeller Center

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NEW YORK (AP) — Flames shot from the roof and smoke clouded the skyline but officials said no one was seriously hurt in a restaurant fire Friday near New York's Rockefeller Center.
 
Firefighters brought the blaze under control around 10:30 p.m., about two hours after it broke out in the basement and ventilation system of a TGI Friday's restaurant in midtown Manhattan, the Fire Department of New York said.
 
One firefighter sustained a minor injury, according to an FDNY spokesman. The cause of the fire was under investigation.
 
Witness Kirby Gargantiel said he watched from a nearby rooftop as smoke grew thicker and darker, turning the air around 48th and 49th streets acrid.
 
A photo on Twitter showed flames shooting from the roof of the six-story building. A fire department spokesman said the flames likely came from a vent.
 
More than 130 firefighters were called to the scene. The blaze caused traffic delays in the area and transit officials rerouted bus routes.
 
According to city records, the building was built in the 1920s and has kitchens in the basement and on the fourth floor. A dining area occupies the first through third floors, with offices on the fifth and sixth.

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US: Man who stole from veterans charity gets 10 years

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A former treasurer of the Disabled American Veterans was sentenced Friday to 10 years in custody for stealing more than $100,000 from the charity.
 
Thomas Keller, 44, admitted at his sentencing hearing that he had stolen the funds, but offered little in the way of an explanations. For nearly every question prosecutors asked — including when he started as DAV treasurer — Keller simply responded, "I don't know."
 
He tried and failed to choke back tears as he offered more apologies during testimony.
 
"I would like to say to the veterans that I'm sorry. I'm sorry I let you down," he said. Throughout his sentencing hearing, he maintained that he stole the funds because he had been ill, lost his job and fallen behind on bills.
 
"Why did you steal? Did you do it to support your lifestyle?" prosecutors asked.
 
"I still had to pay utilities," he answered, adding that his motorcycle had been repossessed and his house foreclosed upon.
 
According to court records, Keller wrote questionable checks to pay off cable, phone and credit card bills, along with checks he cut to himself. Authorities say he took $160,281.99.
 
Keller took the money to pay his bills, himself and his ex-wife over the course of three years and 127 checks.
 
When prosecutors mentioned that some of the checks were written to Staples, Comcast and Verizon, Keller became almost hostile.
 
"With all due respect, I've already plead guilty. I've taken full responsibility," he said.
 
Said Davidson County Criminal Court Judge Steve Dozier: "It's kind of ironic that we're here on the 70th anniversary of D-Day to sentence someone for stealing from veterans. There are circumstances that required Mr. Keller to need more money. Well, who doesn't that apply to?"
 
Keller, who is himself a veteran, was treasurer of the Tennessee chapter and in charge of the charity's financial affairs. He served in the Army from 1989 until 1996 and was a reservist until 2006. He was promoted to treasurer in 2007.
 
The charity became suspicious after its leader asked Keller in 2010 for a full financial report. The report never came, and Keller dropped out of sight when an audit was ordered.
 
Eventually police and the U.S. Secret Service began investigating. When confronted, Keller admitted he had stolen the money.
 
"I started taking money from DAV in small amounts that spiraled out of control," he wrote to investigators at one point. "I understand what I did was completely wrong and fully accept responsibility for my actions. I am truly sorry for all involved that I hurt and have lost trust in me."
 
The members of the DAV who filled the courtroom weren't entirely convinced that Keller's apologies were sincere.
 
"To me it was a smokescreen," said Robert Wedge, a Lawrenceburg DAV member. "But I'm pleased it finally came to fruition even four years later."

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Deputies kill Georgia man as he attacks courthouse

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CUMMING, Ga. — Authorities killed a man Friday whom they say shot a sheriff's deputy in the leg outside the Forsyth County Courthouse.
 
The man, gun trader Dennis Ronald Marx, 48, drove up on the sidewalk in front of the courthouse at about 10 a.m. ET, threw spike strips and explosives out his car window to keep officers from reaching him then began shooting through the windshield of his SUV with an assault rifle, Forsyth County Sheriff Duane Piper said. Deputies returned fire, shooting Marx multiple times.
 
It was unclear whether the deputy who first encountered Marx killed the suspect.
 
"When the deputy engaged him outside, it saved lives," Piper said. "The entire situation was solved by that deputy's actions."
 
Authorities later identified the officer as James Rush, 46, of Cumming. He's been a Forsyth County deputy since February 1990 and is expected to make a full recovery.
 
Officials say Marx had planned the attack for a long time. He was carrying grenades, homemade explosive devices, water, zip ties and several magazines of ammunition and had rigged his body with explosives.
 
Court records show that Marx filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the sheriff's department in 2013.
 
In August 2011, Marx was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and firearm possession during a felony, among other counts, said his lawyer, Ann Shafer.
 
That same month, authorities filed court papers seeking to seize two dozen handguns and rifles, 71 gun magazines and $24,311 in cash from Marx. The lawyer who represented Marx in the civil seizure case, Richard Grossman, said officers found the weapons cache after an undercover officer bought drugs from Marx.
 
Marx was scheduled to appear in court Friday morning to enter a guilty plea in the drug case but did not show up.
 
Shafer said she waited for her client, whom she described as slightly unstable at times, for about 40 minutes then left the courthouse about 40 miles northeast of Atlanta. As she walked out, she heard gunshots and wondered whether Marx was responsible.
 
"I find people remarkable in their reactions to the legal business," Shafer said. "I feel very lucky that I walked out the back of the courthouse instead of the front."
 
Marx had made veiled threats against her and his other lawyers in the past, she said.
 
"We lawyers take our chances in representing people who are not always the most stable on the face of the earth," Shafer said.
 
In Marx's federal complaint against the Forsyth County Sheriff's Department, he accused deputies of using excessive force and making illegal searches. He claimed that officers hit him when he was standing with his hands up, used chemical agents to make him believe an explosion or fire had occurred and used an extra set of handcuffs that cut off circulation to his hands.
 
A lawyer representing the sheriff's department in the case was not immediately available. Piper said Marx had been arrested multiple times in the past, and on one occasion had set traps outside his home in Cumming, which has about 5,500 residents.
 
About two hours after the attack, the area around the Forsyth County Courthouse was secured, Piper said.
 
Officers are searching Marx's home and are worried that it might be booby trapped. He apparently had not been living at his house for the past 10 days.
 
Contributing: The Associated Press

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Cincinnati hospital sued for posting woman’s medical records on Facebook

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CINCINNATI — A woman who was being treated for a sexually transmitted disease at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center is suing the hospital, accusing an employee of posting her medical records to Facebook.
 
According to the lawsuit, filed in Hamilton Common Pleas Court this week, a screen shot of the woman's medical record showing her name and her diagnosis of syphilis was posted to the Facebook group "Team No Hoes" in September 2013.
 
An email that included the same screen shot was also sent to members of the closed group.
 
Shawntelle Turley is also suing Ryan Rawls, named as an employee of UC Medical Center, an unnamed employee at UC Medical and Raphael Bradley, her ex-boyfriend.
 
The lawsuit claims that Rawls, along with the unknown nurse at UC, posted records online at the request of Bradley. The lawsuit also claims the health system and UC Medical Center negligently supervised Rawls and has not done enough to identify the other unknown employee allegedly involved.
 
Officials at UC Health, which operates the hospital, said they could not comment on the pending litigation.
 
On Wednesday afternoon, UC Medical Center CEO Lee Ann Liska sent a memo to the hospital's employees noting the lawsuit and its claims. The memo also reads:
 
"(W)e take the privacy and safety of our patients very seriously. While the allegations are isolated to the people named in the lawsuit and by no means reflect the conduct of UCMC associates, who are dedicated to serving thousands of patients annually and safeguarding their PHI (or personal health information), I would like to remind everyone that the unauthorized access or viewing of medical records, or the unauthorized sharing of PHI, is a serious violation of federal medical privacy laws and regulations and cause for immediate termination."
 
"As this case is being handled through the legal system, we ask that you refrain from discussing it. Should any patients ask questions about the story or raise concerns about their PHI, please assure them that we strictly enforce our policies to safeguard their privacy."
 
According to the suit, "as a result of the inaction (of the hospital) … the plaintiff's medical records are still in the possession of the other (unknown) employee and the plaintiff is receiving phone calls harassing her and her child," according the lawsuit.
 
Turley, whose lawyer is former Hamilton County prosecutor Mike Allen, is suing for more than $25,000 in damages for invasion of privacy, emotional distress, malice and negligence.
 
Allen did not return a call seeking comment.

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Same-sex couples in Wisconsin begin tying the knot

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Same-sex couples began getting married in Wisconsin on Friday within minutes of a federal judge's striking down the state's gay marriage ban and despite confusion over the effect of the ruling.
 
Clerks in Madison and Milwaukee started marrying same-sex couples Friday evening. They did so even though both Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and Chris Ahmuty, director of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which challenged the law in court, said the ruling did not clear the way for marriages to begin.
 
Van Hollen said that in light of clerks going ahead with marriages, he would file emergency motions in federal courts to put Friday's order on hold. Van Hollen did not say when he would ask for the emergency order.
 
Renee Currie and Shari Roll, both of Madison, were first in line at the county courthouse in Madison and were married on the street just a block from the Capitol. In Milwaukee, about 75 people cheered as two men were married in the hallway outside the clerk's office at the county courthouse.
 
Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele said he would keep his courthouse open until 9 p.m. so same-sex couples could get married.
 
"I have been waiting decades for this day to finally arrive and we won't make loving couples wait longer than they want to get married," Abele said.
 
U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb's ruling late Friday declared the law unconstitutional. But the judge also asked the couples who sued to describe exactly what they wanted her to block in the law, then gave Van Hollen's office a chance to respond. She said she would later decide whether to put her underlying decision on hold while it is appealed.
 
Van Hollen vowed to appeal.
 
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in February on behalf of four gay couples, then later expanded to eight, challenging Wisconsin's constitutional ban on gay marriage. The lawsuit alleged Wisconsin's ban violates the plaintiffs' constitutional rights to equal protection and due process, asserting the prohibition deprives gay couples of the legal protections that married couples enjoy simply because of their gender.
 
Gay rights activists have won 15 consecutive lower court cases since a landmark Supreme Court ruling last summer, with Wisconsin being the latest. Many of those rulings are being appealed.
 
"This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether such marriages are moral or immoral or whether they are something that should be encouraged or discouraged," Crabb wrote in the Wisconsin ruling. "It is not even about whether the plaintiffs in this case are as capable as opposite-sex couples of maintaining a committed and loving relationship or raising a family together.
 
"Quite simply, this case is about liberty and equality, the two cornerstones of the rights protected by the United States Constitution."
 
In May, Milwaukee County Clerk Joe Czarnezki and Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell said they had trained additional staff to issue marriage licenses and worked with the chief judge to have judges on hand to perform ceremonies. They were waiving a normal waiting period so couples could wed immediately.
 
Voters amended the Wisconsin Constitution in 2006, to outlaw gay marriage or anything substantially similar. The state has offered a domestic partner registry that affords gay couples a host of legal rights since 2009, but its future is in doubt; the conservative-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court is weighing whether it violates the constitution.
 
Republican Gov. Scott Walker, a potential 2016 Republican candidate for president, has a long history of opposing gay marriage. But in recent months he's avoided talking directly about the state's ban, which he supported, saying it's an issue that needs to be decided by the courts and voters.
 
Walker's likely Democratic challenger in the governor's race, Mary Burke, supports legalizing gay marriage.
 
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Associated Press writers Todd Richmond and Taylor W. Anderson, in Madison, and M.L. Johnson in Milwaukee contributed to this report.
 

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US: Detroit music producer Don Davis dies

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With a keen ear for sound and a knack for numbers, Don Davis carved out one of the most distinctive high-profile careers in Detroit.
 
Davis, a musician and producer who went on to helm one of the country's biggest black-owned banks, died Thursday at 75. He leaves behind a litany of hits — including work with his cousin Johnnie Taylor, the Dramatics, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. — and a three-decade stint as CEO of First Independence Bank.
 
Lisa Wilmore, a spokesman for the family, would say only that Davis died after a brief illness, with more details to be released later.
 
It was a unconventional career that took him from the wild-and-woolly world of music to the buttoned-down realm of finance. Fittingly, his big break in Detroit music came with Money, the 1960 Barrett Strong hit that featured Davis's guitar work.
 
Having worked up through the ranks of Detroit music in the 1960s — first as a session guitarist at Motown — Davis headed to Memphis soul label Stax Records in the late 1960s, turning out his first big production hit: Taylor's 1968 song Who's Making Love, which topped Billboard's R&B chart.
 
Davis headed home and purchased United Sound in 1971, turning the vintage Detroit studio into a hit hotspot and helping define the pop landscape of the mid-'70s with work like Taylor's "Disco Lady" and the McCoo-Davis Jr. song You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show).
 
In 1981, he took over the struggling First Independence Bank, eventually rebuilding it to more than $200 million in assets and the 12th-biggest African-American owned bank in the United States.
 
The funeral will be handled by Swanson Funeral Home's northwest Detroit office, but arrangements have not been set.

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US: Bill Cosby’s ready for another TV family

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Thirty years after The Cosby Show debuted, Bill Cosby is preparing his NBC comedy comeback.
 
"I've got it all put together, man! I even have my wardrobe ready," said Cosby, 76.
 
For the first time since Hollywood trade publications announced in January that NBC made a deal for a half-hour sitcom with Cosby and Tom Werner, the former Cosby Show producer turned Boston Red Sox chairman, Cosby talked about the prospect of returning to TV.
 
"I would love to lay out some of those wonderful thoughts that I have now (on parenting, families and marriage)," said TV's former Dr. Cliff Huxtable in a phone interview. "People who I meet in the airport keep asking me: When are you going to come back?"
 
It would be a multigenerational family show set in Los Angeles, he said. The Cosby Show (1984-92), TV's No. 1 series for five seasons (fall 1985 through May 1990), was set and filmed in New York close to Cosby's East Coast home.
 
Cosby envisions his new show appealing to today's parents who watched the show when were the same ages as Denise, Theo, Vanessa or Rudy Huxtable. A 40-something father recently told him that "when I saw Theo and Cliff and Clair, I laughed so hard. Now I'm a parent, and I'm still laughing as hard, but I'm on the other side of the table," Cosby said.
 
His new NBC family – like his old one, and his CBS Cosby family (1996-2000) – would show a loving couple respected by their children, which he said doesn't appear often on TV today.
 
"People say they love each other (on TV), they say they're married and these things, but the way they talk to each other, it doesn't sound like it. I don't see anybody kissing! And the children are still a pain in the neck, with parents being afraid to say something to them," he said.
 
Werner, who produced The Cosby Show with Marcy Carsey, has been working with two writers on the show, Cosby said.
 
Cosby didn't seem fazed by the high-profile failures last fall by former NBC sitcom stars Michael J. Fox and Sean Hayes last season.
 
"Why not be excited at 76 years old?" he said. "I have a lot to say."
 
It could be long time before he's on again. NBC put Cosby's comeback on the "off-season development track," which means the show wasn't being developed for the fall TV season announced in May, said Rebecca Marks, NBC Universal Television Group Publicity executive vice president.
 
"We've got two guys writing, who are wonderful writers, and we just have to wait patiently, because they've got their own shows to put on," Cosby said.
 
"I hope NBC has sense enough to pick it up … because it will be fantastic. Then we'll see if all those people at the airport will tune in."
 

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