‘Thanks for Ruining My Life:' A teen tweets against her attackers—and upends the courts.

“Savannah Dietrich says she was furious when she blasted out a defiant tweet this summer, naming two boys who had sexually assaulted her. ‘There you go, lock me up. I’m not protecting anyone that made my life a living Hell,’ the 16-year-old high-school student wrote.”
 
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As FBI investigated Petraeus, he and Allen intervened in nasty child custody battle

“Then-CIA Director David Petraeus and Gen. John Allen, commander of  U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, intervened in a Washington, D.C., custody battle in September, writing letters on behalf of a woman who was found by a judge to have ‘severe personal deficits in the areas of honesty and integrity.'”
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Trial of Miami Beach club operators linked to Russian mob gets under

Miami Beach’s “B-Girls” are back.
But not as the sirens who seduced men in swank hotels like the Delano, to lure them to seedy private clubs on Washington Avenue so they could be plied with liquor and swindled.
Some of the 10 Bar Girls convicted over the past year will appear in Miami federal court as government witnesses, to testify against a handful of defendants who authorities say are linked to Russian organized crime.
On trial starting Tuesday are four reputed associates, along with a Sunny Isles Beach investor who once dabbled in local politics. They’re accused of orchestrating a fraud scheme to run up the credit card bills of South Beach tourists by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Latest Update on missing UF student Christian Aguilar

As friends and strangers, police officers and relatives trudged through thick brush Wednesday, bound by the single mission of finding University of Florida freshman Christian Aguilar, police revealed ominous details about the prime suspect in the disappearance, casting a pall over an increasingly grim search.
Police said Pedro Bravo, the last person seen with Aguilar, bought a shovel and duct tape days before Aguilar’s Sept. 20 disappearance. After searching the wooded fields around Gainesville, investigators have not found a shovel, tape or any other evidence.
Nor have they found any sign of Aguilar, an 18-year-old freshman who went to high school with Bravo at the Doral Academy Preparatory School in west Miami-Dade.
“It’s eating me alive to find out that Pedro could have actually planned this,” said father Carlos Aguilar, 45, of west Miami-Dade. “It’s hard to think about, but I still have faith and I am hoping my son is alive.”
Aguilar’s younger son, Alexander, 16, now a student at Doral Academy, said the newest development was “scary.”
“I am trying to stay positive, trying not to let myself think of the worst-case scenario,” he said Wednesday.
Bravo, a student at Gainesville’s Santa Fe College, told police that he fought with Aguilar, beating him for 10 to 15 minutes before leaving Aguilar “bloody, swollen and barely breathing or moving” in a wooded area, court records show.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/26/3022803/grim-news-for-searchers-of-missing.html#storylink=cpy
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