firefighters were rushing up those same stairs to help bring people out of the building

Firefighters set up memorials for their missing colleagues and paid their respects to the heroic acts of bravery displayed. Five firefighters who were missing were found alive and were taken to the hospital for treatment. Many other firefighters set up American flags and encouraged the nation to come together in its time of need.

"At that moment, I gave them the concerned parent/uncle speech. 'This is it. If you screw up, not wearing (a) seat belt, drink and drive, text, get distracted by music or friends, it's over! No second chances, no excuses, no retakes, no do-overs, no goodbyes. Dead.'"

How do you encourage your teens to be safe while driving?

"You talk to any cognitive psychologist, they've known this for decades, that the human brain can only focus on one attention-requiring task at any given moment. The other task is always in the background,"

Car crashes kill 100 people every day and are the leading cause of accidental deaths in the U.S., says Teater.

"Let's face it, most teenagers will not want this product voluntarily," he said. "It is up to the parent.

Aegis Mobility has created software that is installed directly onto a teen's smartphone, tablet or other handheld device. Once the teen starts driving about 10 miles an hour, the software automatically puts the device in safe mode, which prevents the teen from texting, e-mailing or browsing the Internet.

"A technology solution is incredibly important. We need to take the temptation away from people before it happens,

His story made national headlines after a witness claimed Couch was a victim of "affluenza" -- the product of wealthy, privileged parents who never set limits for the boy.

Prosecutors were similarly disappointed with the judge's decision.

Couch had a blood alcohol content of 0.24, three times the legal limit.

Last June, his wife, Hollie Boyles, and daughter, Shelby, left their home to help Breanna Mitchell, whose SUV had broken down. Brian Jennings, a youth pastor, was driving past and also stopped to help.

He told reporters he has no doubt that money played a role in the case.

Eric Boyles, who lost his wife and daughter in the crash, disagrees.

What white person is saying this is ok? Um, no one. It's not about race it's about justice and this kid should have gone to jail for a long time! Everyone needs to stop with the race war!

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Poor black guy gets 5yrs in prison for NOT paying child support, wealthy white kid gets 10yrs probation and NO jail time after driving drunk and killing 4 innocent people.....ummmm....don't you just love good 'ol American justice? There's truly nothing like it....

If this were a black poor person in TX he'd get the death penalty if the cop wouldn't have shot him dead

I used to go to other officer’s posts, to black neighborhoods, just to make arrests so I could meet my stats.” 

“A hero is the guy who hesitates before shooting, the guy that takes the risk of being shot himself for the sake of not killing an innocent person.”

A hero is the guy who hesitates before shooting, the guy that takes the risk of being shot himself for the sake of not killing an innocent person.”

referring to the 12-year-old in Cleveland who was shot in 2014 by an officer who thought his toy gun was real.

A hero isn’t a cop who instantly fires off his gun, a hero isn’t the cop who shot Tamir Rice,”

he has realized that the only way to serve the law fairly is to use as much empathy as possible in the job. To be able to see civilians and suspects as human.

I had this idea of a ‘Good Cop,’” Wood said, “that was a kind of Robocop. Someone without human bias. I tried to separate my emotions from the job, I formed a wall between myself and the suspects. I thought that was how you enforce a law equally.

officers begin to dress like soldiers, their uniform and vocabulary of war reinforces their mind-sets. As they become more soldierlike and less peace officer–like, they become distanced from the community.

They’re still evaluated on standard measures of performance, such as numbers of arrests made and crimes solved.

better training,

“If the only tool you have is a hammer,” Stamper adds, “the whole world is going to look like a nail to you.”

This is not a war

that people cannot be trusted and are dangerous, that everyone hates cops,

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small towns. If there were an affordable way to protect his people without the new truck, he would do it.

It protects police officers.

In the Indianapolis suburbs, officers said they needed a mine-resistant vehicle to protect against a possible attack by veterans returning from war.“You have a lot of people who are coming out of the military that have the ability and knowledge to build I.E.D.’s

“All of a sudden, we start relationships with people,”

Police departments, though, are adding more firepower and military gear than ever. Some, especially in larger cities, have used federal grant money to buy armored cars and other tactical gear.

Masked, heavily armed police officers in Louisiana raided a nightclub in 2006 as part of a liquor inspection. In Florida in 2010, officers in SWAT gear and with guns drawn carried out raids on barbershops that mostly led only to charges of “barbering without a license.”

the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice.

encouraged to act more aggressively in searching for suspicious people, drugs and other contraband

trash on the floor of a vehicle, abundant energy drinks or air fresheners hanging from rearview mirrors.

suspicious in part because he wore a University of Wyoming cap.

When money is taken from an organization, it hurts them more than when they lose the drugs.

There is no question that state and federal forfeiture programs have crippled powerful drug-trafficking organizations, thwarted an assortment of criminals and brought millions of dollars to financially stressed police departments.

A 55-year-old Chinese American restaurateur from Georgia was pulled over for minor speeding on Interstate 10 in Alabama and detained for nearly two hours. He was carrying $75,000 raised from relatives to buy a Chinese restaurant in Lake Charles, La. He got back his money 10 months later but only after spending thousands of dollars on a lawyer and losing out on the restaurant deal. A 40-year-old Hispanic carpenter from New Jersey was stopped on Interstate 95 in Virginia for having tinted windows. Police said he appeared nervous and consented to a search. They took $18,000 that he said was meant to buy a used car. He had to hire a lawyer to get back his money. Mandrel Stuart, a 35-year-old African American owner of a small barbecue restaurant in Staunton, Va., was stunned when police took $17,550 from him during a stop in 2012 for a minor traffic infraction on Interstate 66 in Fairfax. He rejected a settlement with the government for half of his money and demanded a jury trial. He eventually got his money back but lost his business because he didn’t have the cash to pay his overhead.

But in 41 percent of cases — 4,455 — where there was a challenge, the government agreed to return money

61,998 cash seizures

The practice has been controversial since its inception at the height of the drug war more than three decades ago, and its abuses have been the subject of journalistic exposés and congressional hearings.

A thriving subculture of road officers on the network now competes to see who can seize the most cash and contraband, describing their exploits in the network’s chat rooms and sharing “trophy shots” of money and drugs. Some police advocate highway interdiction as a way of raising revenue for cash-strapped municipalities.

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criminals and the innocent alike — including their Social Security numbers, addresses and identifying tattoos, as well as hunches about which drivers to stop.

encouraged to act more aggressively in searching for suspicious people, drugs and other contraband

At risk for physical, emotional, social, and cognitive violation, these children are in need of interventions that appropriately address their needs in the context of their environment, and build upon the positive survival skills that they have developed as a result of street life.

Many homeless children are enticed by adults and older youth into selling drugs, stealing, and prostitution.

A study conducted by the Luxembourg Income Study shows poor children in the United States are poorer than children in most Western industrialized countries, since the United States has less generous social programs, the widest gap between rich and poor, and high numbers of poor immigrant and unwed teen mothers.6 The poverty and social conditions many American children face lead to large numbers of homeless and street children.

the United States had 5.5 million children living in extreme poverty, approximately one million of whom were on the streets

Failing economies and falling currencies in parts of Asia force the poorest families onto the street, often leaving children abandoned and homeless

A ‘Child of the Streets': Children who have no home but the streets, and no family support. They move from place to place, living in shelters and abandoned buildings.

There are an estimated 100 million children living in the streets in the world today.

Without help from organizations like Amani, street-children are trapped in a cycle of poverty and neglect that few are able to escape.

Children living on the street face the constant prospect of physical, verbal and sexual abuse from peers and adults.

Rather, a combination of multiple factors drive children to a life on the streets, including poverty, neglect, the breakdown of the family, losing one or both parents to HIV/AIDS or other prevalent diseases and verbal, physical, and sexual abuse.

Dancing in a way that is often ridiculous, never threatening, and increasingly makes you feel fly-er than the song before.

These aren’t theoretical concepts, these are actual facts of life.

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And with both, they have the opportunity to have a brighter future.

Obviously, these kids do not have houses to live in, and only have the streets to spend their nights to. In this case, they are prone to accidents, sickness, and abuse.

The problem is getting bigger and the negative impact from ignoring or failing to help these children is all around us now

Our goal is that no child should have to live, eat or work on the street

Most of the street children have not attended school regularly, and sometimes not at all, and thus, they need help to catch up.

Children are found living on the streets for many reasons, including difficult social situations at home, unemployment, alcoholism, violence and abuse

It was as if sadness had killed George Bell.

Tallied up, George Bell’s assets amounted to roughly $540,000.

He cleaned George Bell’s apartment wearing the dead man’s boots.

“We were great friends. I don’t know if you can say it this way, but we were men who loved each other.”

Death, though, isn’t social. It’s business. No need to have known someone to get his money.

Bidding on the watch began at $1 and finished at $3.

The phenomenon of street children is multifaceted. The combination of familial, economic, social, and political factors play an important role in their situation. It is therefore very difficult to single out one or more causes.