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Authorities say a convicted sex offender fathered two children with a woman who emerged 18 years after being snatched from a bus stop. Jaycee Lee Dugard, who vanished when she was 11 years old, turned up at a police station in Northern California this week.

One of the dating forum regulars tipped me off to a new dating show called Dating in the Dark, where participants meet other singles in an attempt connect minus the use of their sight. The prsemise is simple, although so far the results have netted almost exclusively the same end result: the men were more willing to date the women they'd met in the dark than vice versa. The concept makes me think of a book I just finished reading called Sex Comes First: 15 Ways To Save Your Relationship Without Leaving The Bedroom. In a chapter focusing on lack of intimacy in a romantic relationship, the authors discuss a study undertaken where the participants were left in an unlit room together. 90% of the people in the room went out of their way to touch someone else, and 50% hugged another person in the room. In the control group hanging out in a lit room however, none of the participants made any attempts to touch anyone else. It also makes me think of the smell dating event that AXE cologne p

A young woman believed kidnapped as a pony-tailed, 11-year-old in 1991 reappeared in recent days when she walked into a police station in northern California. Two people have been arrested in connection with the long-cold case.

Authorities say a convicted sex offender fathered two children with a woman who emerged 18 years after being snatched from a bus stop. Jaycee Lee Dugard, who vanished when she was 11 years old, turned up at a police station in Northern California this week.

(RCMP) Police have issued a warrant for a man wanted in the sexual assault and robbery of an elderly woman near a grocery store in Red Deer. The woman in her 70s was walking through a wooded area at ...

Officials say a woman came into a Northern California police station and said she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, an 11-year-old girl who was abducted as she headed to a school bus stop 18 years ago. Phillip and Nancy Garrido were arrested for investigation of kidnapping and conspiracy. Phillip Garrido is also being held for investigation on rape charges.

Officials say a woman came into a San Francisco Bay area police station and said she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, an 11-year-old girl who was was abducted as she headed to a school bus stop 18 years ago. A sheriff's department spokesman said two suspects were being held for investigation of several charges, including kidnapping.

A woman cried and repeatedly begged 'don't kill me' as she was raped by a group of masked teenagers in a public housing complex two years ago, a teen defendant testified Wednesday.

One day as a child Billy Smith (not his real name), a resident of Newfoundland, could not take off his shoe. No amount of twisting or tugging would loosen its grip on his foot. The reason for his struggle eventually surfaced: a nail had pierced the sole and entered Smith’s flesh, tightly binding the two. Removing the nail freed the foot, but solving that problem only underscored a bigger one: Smith had not noticed.Smith is among a tiny cluster of people, fewer than 30 in the world, who harbor a genetic quirk that renders them incapable of perceiving pain. “These humans are completely healthy, of normal intelligence, but don’t know what pain is,” says clinical geneticist C. Geoffrey Woods, who studied a group of such patients from northern Pakistan. They can sense touch, heat, vibration and their body’s position in space. Yet for them, root canals are painless, as are falls, fires and whacks on the head with a baseball bat. One woman with so-called congenit

HARARE, Aug 27 (IPS) - Zimbabwe's latest constitutional reform process has generated strong interest among activists in strengthening protection for women's rights. The early signs are that the drafting of a new constitution will not prioritise correcting legal, social and economic discrimination against women.