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POTSDAM — The family of Riley K. Basford has been connected with a public speaker who could bring the 15-year-old’s story of extortion to thousands of students. The plan is underscored by a third family whose 14-year-old son was blackmailed online to the point his predator encouraged the suicide that would eventually happen. Mary C. Rodee and Darren E. Basford, the parents of Riley, recently met with the superintendent of Potsdam schools. The parents were there to get help with finding Paul Davis, the public speaker who has presented to more than 600,000 students across the United S...

Hays Daily News The Ellis County Commission on Monday evening denied a permit for Leann Zimmerman’s proposal to build a country wedding barn on her farmland north of Hays, but Zimmerman says she hasn’t given up. “We’re very disappointed, but I think we’ll move forward in some manner,” Zimmerman said after a lengthy meeting at the Ellis County Administrative Center, 718 Main. “That’s what I know at this point.” “Absolutely” she and her husband, Jayme Zimmerman, will try to build the wedding barn “at the same location.” Zimmerman was seeking a permit for a proposed 7...

disconcerting, the stories about the private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials. that obviously is not something which is encouraging because in the games there are three parts that make games successful. number one of course are the athletes. that is what overwhelmingly the games are apart. number two the volunteers. they'll have great volunteers here. but number three are the people of the country. do they come together and celebrate the olympic moment? and that's something which we only find out once the games actua...

good evening. here in london with the opening ceremony now just 24 hours away, something mitt romney said during our conversation with him here yesterday exploded here in london today and actually caused a bit of tension with the british prime minister and then late today the mayor of london exhorted a huge crowd in hyde park to prove mitt romney wrong by pulling off the olympic games without a hitch. this all started during the one moment yesterday when our exclusive interview with him turned to these london olympics and some of the security problems they've had. in the short time y...

things systematically as a jury. we worked together very well. >> reporter: in fact, they worked out apparently any disagreemented they had over the course of two days and in a total of only 21 hours. as you pointed out, this went so rapidly, fred. >> it really did. while we mentioned, you know, jerry sandusky showed no emotion, his attorney did say that he turned to him and actually saw a tear or two kind of come from his eyes. are we learning more about the reason or some of the reasons why sandusky never took the stand in his own defense? >> reporter: well, the lawyers tell us he ...