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HUFFINGTON POST:
Underage Sex Ring Run By Florida School Bus Monitor
Condry allegedly frequented the brothel while still in uniform, his police radio buzzing while he received oral sex from the then-15-year-old victim, the teen reported in her statement to investigators.
New Jersey Rabbi Threatened To Bury Israeli Kidnap Victim Alive Over Divorce Row
"Do you want a funeral or a divorce?" Wax reportedly threatened the victim's father over a recorded call, according to the complaint.
‘G-d Was Crying With Us’ (Leiby Kletzky Funeral)
"It's as if we all lost a child," said Esther, a mourner who declined to give her last name.
HUFFINGTON POST MEDIA GROUP—PATCH:
It’s Bea’s World, We Just Live In It
Part Three in a series, The First Class about KIPP King Collegiate High School, the most diverse school in the nation’s largest charter network.
Bea is what KIPP King Collegiate's first graduating class would be if it were compacted and magnified—compressed into a .gif, or telescoped into a tweet. She is the 140-character version. The thumbnail.
Babies and Bubble Tests
The second in a series about teen pregnancy in a community where more young woman have children before the age of 18 than almost anywhere else in the San Francisco Bay Area or the state of California.
"It’s not as bad as everybody makes it seem to have two kids—you just gotta have the patience," she said. "I do it all by myself."
A Rolling Home For Heros Big and Small
"Yo quiero Spiderman, yo quiero Spiderman!" "Yo quiero Pikachu!"
A Father’s Last Words From Mexico—Stay
Part of an ongoing series about immigration and deportation in the community.
"I told him to stay strong and keep fighting," Adriana said of her last conversation with her father, the night before he died. "He said he was tired. I think maybe he knew he was going to die."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
“For Hanukkah, Karaoke in a Venerable Tongue,”
“It gets bigger by the day,” Menachem Yankl Ejdelman, left, says of the Yiddish-speaking community
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Bathrooms at JFK’s Central Taxi hold appalling, cabbies say
"It's a disaster," said Pemba Sherpa, 39, a driver from Jackson Heights. "To be honest, I only use it in emergencies."
Queen’s Nollywood central: Nigerian celebrities spur local businesses
"We're like the National Enquirer, the US Magazine and the People Magazine of Nollywood combined," Udoh said of the paper.
That’s the spirit! State approves 192-proof Spirytus, allowing New Yorkers to get quite the buzz
"It's incredibly sharp. It takes your breath away," said Levi Pekar, 22, a Brooklyn student who has sampled the swill. "It's like getting punched in the solar plexus."
MOTHER JONES
MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga
By Sonja Sharp
Booker-Prize winner Aravind Adiga on his second novel, Between the Assasinations
THE BROOKLYN INK
MULTIMEDIA: “Tigers in Our Midst”
By SONJA SHARP
Published: April 21st, 2009
In January, rapper M.I.A. came under fire for her radical stance on Sri Lanka. But as violence escalates, more and more Tamil exiles are taking the hard line
VIDEO: “Catch a Ride on the Cyclone with The Brooklyn Ink”
Check out video of our ride the Coney Island Cyclone on Opening Day, April 5th 2009
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“Opening Day Inspires Brooklyn Fashionistas”
Super longtime Coney resident Edie Kudlis tests his most unusual bike on the Boardwalk
“More Drivers, Less Cash for Brooklyn Hacks,”
By Sonja Sharp,
March 11th 2009
As jobs dry up in other sectors, more and more Brooklynites are turning to taxis, driving up lease rates
“Adios Brooklyn”
By Sonja Sharp
March 5th, 2009
As the recession deepens, many of Brooklyn's Mexican immigrants are making the heartrending decision to leave
“Snapshots from Sunset Park”
By Sonja Sharp
February 23rd, 2009
An African gray parrot sells for $1488 at Petland Discounts in Sunset Park
THE DAILY BREEZE
“Hunger Rising?”
Posted: 07/17/2008 11:24:00 PM PDT
Jennifer Barba, 5, tears open her sandwich at the East... (Brad Graverson, Staff Photographer)
THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN
“Good Health Trickles Down to Mumbai Slums,”
By Sonja Sharp,
February 25th, 2008
According to UNICEF, "(a)bout 4,500 children die each day from unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation facilities," making diarrhea the leading cause of death for children across the globe.
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