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Missing Toronto 3-year-old Toronto boy freezes and dies in hospital

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  A three-year-old Toronto boy has died in hospital after spending hours outside in the bitter cold after wandering away from the apartment building where he was staying with family around 4 a.m. wearing only a T-shirt, diaper and boots. Elijah Marsh was found without vital signs on Baycrest Avenue around 10:20 a.m. ET, just a few hundred metres from the north-end apartment where he was spending the night with family. Just after 2 p.m., police confirmed he had died. 'Tucked away in the corner' Insp. Frank Barredo said Elijah was found "tucked away in the corner" in the backyard of a home and that two volunteer searchers were the first to come across him. The boy's family awoke Thursday around 7:30 a.m. to find he was missing from their low-rise apartment on Neptune Drive in the  Bathurst Street and Highway 401 area. They last saw him when they put him to bed around 9:30 p.m. ET, police said. This...

Twitter tip: How to make someone unfollow you

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    If you want Britney Spears to unfollow you, just follow the simple steps below. Until now, when you blocked people on Twitter, they couldn't follow you and wouldn't see your tweets in their streams. Of course, harassers could always go to your public profile and read your updates there, but it would take a little extra effort on their part. However, Twitter has changed its blocking policy, so that blocking a user really just mutes them from your point of view. A blocked harasser can now follow you, read your tweets in their stream, and even retweet them. The only upside, as far as I can tell, is that blocked users will no longer be able to tell that you've blocked them. Anyways, before Twitter made this latest change, it was super-easy to make someone unfollow you without permanently blocking them, if you so desired. All you had to do is block them and then unblock them. With the new blocking policy, this just involves a couple more steps: Select the optio...

Grounds for Modifying a Custody or Visitation Order

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The Law Office of Gary W. Norris So, you have a child custody arrangement and you want it changed.  Child custody arrangements can always subject to the court changing them, even if they say “Final,” and even if the parties signed an agreement saying they wouldn’t change it.  See Family Code § 3022.  What are some reasons that would justify changing a custody or visitation order? Some Factors Related to Modifications of Custody : —  Facilitation or Frustration of Visitation:  Is the other parent denying you rightful contact with your child or failing to follow the court order? —  Employment:  Have there been any changes in your employment or the other parent’s employment? Are the children always in daycare or the care of relatives? Are you more available to spend time with the children? Has a change in your employment increased the amount of time you can devote to your children? —  Geographic Distance:  Do you now live c...

32 People Arrested In New York For Food Stamp Fraud

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People of color have long been taunted and stereotyped for being on welfare and food stamps by the media and the GOP. But recently, whites (who receive more food stamps and welfare than blacks at a 40 to 26 ratio, according to the USDA ) have been under controversy in regards to the governmental supplements. A group of 32 white Americans have been arrested in Brushton, New York over the span of two months for various cases of food stamp fraud. Local news station WPTZ reports that the arrests stem from a yearlong investigation into Old Time Butcher Block Store, which is owned by 45-year-old Dennis Suave who was also arrested on Jan.16 for the alleged food stamp fraud. The scam included the misuse of food stamps, which were used to buy alcohol, cash in money and purchase other items that cannot be bought with a food stamp card – known as the Electronic Benefits Transfer Card (EBT). Police charged them all with petit larceny, misuse of food stamps and second degr...

Kanye West's 'Bulletproof Vest' Rips Off Boston Designer

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  They say there's a fine line between "genius" and "crazy." Kanye West has been called both by many. New England fans of the Antonio Ansaldi apparel company is calling him "thief" after what Kanye's daughter North West wore at Kanye's fashion show in New York City on Thursday. Baby North's "baby bulletproof vest" designed by her fashion-forward father, Kanye turns heads. A second look, and a lot of Bostonians and fans of the highly popular Antonio Ansaldi clothing line calling Kanye's style a direct lift from the Boston fashion line, Antonio Ansaldi. Popular in the 90's, the vest (wasn't called "bulletproof vest" by Antonio Ansaldi) was one of the most sought-after articles from the company.  With locations on Newbury Street in Boston, and Washington Street in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Antonio Ansaldi outfitted many rappers for the videos, and was a staple in New England HipHop fashion. Anto...