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Pope confirms hell and damnation ‘real and eternal’

HELL is a place where sinners really do burn in an everlasting fire, and not just a religious symbol designed to galvanise the faithful, Pope Benedict XVI has said.

Addressing a parish gathering in a northern suburb of Rome, the Pope said that in the modern world many people, including some believers, had forgotten that if [...]

27Mar2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments || More
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Masturbating trespasser booted from frat

Police have been unable to locate a woman who entered the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house without permission on Thursday and began to masturbate on a couch.
While fraternity members were eating in the dining room, a woman entered the house’s living room, took off her clothes and started masturbating, said LSA junior Dan Nye, the [...]

27Mar2007 | 3V8 Staff | 2 comments || More
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Woman Calls Detective Wanting To Buy Meth

SEDALIA, Mo. — A woman was arrested after police said she dialed a wrong number and told a police detective that she wanted to buy drugs.
Detective Phil Stewart said he was sleeping last Thursday morning when he got a call on his cell phone from Tammy Banks, 41, of Sedalia.
The call was a wrong number, [...]

27Mar2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments || More
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Will Bush Live to See End of His Mandate?

George Bush still has 667 days to live to become the first president to stay alive despite the Tecumseh curse.
The story of the so-called Tecumseh curse, although known in the world, is part of the American culture and is taught in schools in history classes. How else to explain the horrifying sequence of seven American [...]

26Mar2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments || More
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Seattle Times: 10th-grade WASL may ditch math and science

State lawmakers appear on the verge of dumping the math and science sections of the 10th-grade Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL), and replacing them with a very different kind of test.
The idea is to do something about the fact that so few students pass the math and science sections. But the proposed remedy is [...]

26Mar2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments || More
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The evolution of “slut”

As with so many fraught or politically tricky words, context is everything when it comes to “slut.”
These days the word is often used as an affectionate tease among friends, especially adolescent girls. Or it has metaphorical meaning – you’re a slut for something you can’t resist.
At first it might seem that feminism and the sexual [...]

25Mar2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments || More
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No sex please, we’re daddy’s little girls

It has all the ingredients of a wedding. The proud tuxedo-clad father, the frosted white cake, the limousines and an exchange of vows.
But there is no groom and the girl in the long gown is no bride. She’s daddy’s little girl, there to take a vow of chastity.
In what is becoming a trend among conservative [...]

25Mar2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments || More
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Private school students banned from using myspace…AT HOME!

Students at a suburban Catholic school are being ordered to take down their photos, snappy comments, or anything else they may have posted on MySpace.com.
Today is the deadline for students at St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic School to follow orders or risk suspension. School Principal Sister Margaret Van Velzen sent letters home to [...]

25Mar2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments || More
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Couple offered toddler for $3,000 and an SUV

OWENSBORO, Kentucky (AP) — A couple are charged with trying to sell a 15-month-old girl for $3,000 and a sport-utility vehicle.
Charles G. Hope Jr., 32, and Amber M. Revlett, 26, both of Owensboro, planned to use the money to pay off his fines for previous criminal charges, said Daviess County Sheriff’s Lt. Bill Thompson. They [...]

24Mar2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments || More
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Husband rips wife’s eyes out after she refuses sex

A MAN who ripped out his wife’s eyes in a fit of rage was sentenced by a French court to 30 years behind bars today.
Mohamed Hadfi, 31, tore out his 23-year-old wife Samira Bari’s eyes following a heated argument in their apartment in the southern French city of Nimes in July 2003 after she refused [...]

23Mar2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments || More
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Man gets probation for sex with dead deer

A 20-year-old man received probation after he was convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer. The sentence also requires Bryan James Hathaway to be evaluated as a sex offender and treated at the Institute for Psychological and Sexual Health in Duluth, Minn.
“The state believes that particular place is the best to provide treatment [...]

22Mar2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments || More
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Blind auto mechanic hires deaf assistant

Cars have been Larry Woody’s life for more than 30 years. He fixed them, he raced them, he restored them. But five years ago on Interstate 5 a truck blew across the median and drove over his tiny Toyota Celica. He almost died, and he was blinded.
But Woody, 46, still works on his 1968 El [...]

21Mar2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments || More