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  • Rapper Remy Ma(ma) going to jail

    Rapper Remy Ma (née Reminisce Smith, Remy Martin ) was sentenced to 8 years in jail on Wednesday for shooting Makeda Barnes Joseph in "a dispute over money." The judge in the case, Rena Uviller, told Remy that she was, "a young woman whose anger is out of control." Her fiancée, Papoose...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Brett Singer on 05-15-2008
  • Heidi Klum Teaches Kids to Jaywalk

    Look how apprehensive the children are! They've sat through enough Lou and Lou to know that they shouldn't be crossing the street outside the safety of a properly marked crosswalk. Oh, life in Beverly (Hills that is), where the laws are enforced at leisure. Remember this picture when Heidi's...
    Posted to FameCrawler (Weblog) by Whit Honea on 03-10-2008
  • Two Moms Brawl at Chuck E. Cheese

    You know how it goes: One minute you are hosting a birthday party for your kid, and the next thing you know, you are in a fistfight with another mom. Two mothers are going to court soon over a tussle at a party at Chuck E. Cheese . I'm pretty sure part of the defense strategy will be, "Your...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Kelly Mills on 03-03-2008
  • Teachers Play Bad Cop, Bad Cop

    In a demonstration of the fact that kids have about the same rights as your average "terror suspect," four teachers frisked an entire class of third graders when five dollars turned out to be missing from the classroom. When a substitute teacher discovered an envelope that had contained five...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Kelly Mills on 02-29-2008
  • 7-Year-Old Girl Puts Herself Between Mom and Bullets

    Hey, it's time to get weepy with the Derby. See, sometimes as parents we can barely write about the stuff in the news because we use up too many tissues and risk electrocution from tears on our laptops. But let's give it a go anyway: Selitha Parker dated Calvin Tillie for a few months before...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Kelly Mills on 12-18-2007
  • Indian Village's Industry: Training Kids to Steal

    In the 4000-person village of Musepur-Jubganj in India, not many kids go to school. But it's not because of lack of access or extreme poverty or anything else that would immediately come to mind as a logical reason for truancy—the children here are kept out of school in order to be taught to steal ....
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Patti on 06-05-2007
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