Paris Hilton ARRESTED On Cocaine Charge

LAS VEGAS — Smoke wafting from a Cadillac Escalade on the Las Vegas Strip set off Paris Hilton's latest legal troubles when a motorcycle officer who suspected the smell was marijuana stopped the vehicle and police say a bag of cocaine later fell out of the 29-year-old socialite's purse.
It's the second time this year Hilton has been arrested on drug possession allegations, although authorities in South Africa dropped marijuana charges earlier this summer. In 2007, Hilton pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving and was sentenced to 45 days in jail.
This time, the hotel heiress was with her boyfriend, Las Vegas nightclub mogul Cy Waits, who manages a club inside the Wynn Las Vegas and was driving the black SUV that the officer stopped nearby at 11:22 p.m. Friday.
The officer "followed the vapor trail and the odor of marijuana to the Escalade," police Sgt. John Sheahan said.
As other police arrived and a crowd gathered on the busy neon-lit Strip, Hilton asked to go into the Wynn resort for privacy, Sheahan said.
"Miss Hilton pulled out a tube of lip balm," Sheahan said. "At the same time ... a bindle of cocaine in a plastic bag came out of her purse" in plain view of police in the room.

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The Shaquan Duley Murder Case: Why Moms Snap

 
The Shaquan Duley Murder Case: Why Moms Snap

Shaquan Duley, the South Carolina mother who allegedly suffocated two of her young children this week before submerging her car — with the bodies of her 18-month-old and two-year-old sons inside it — in a river, has been arrested and charged with two counts of murder. Investigators have not said yet whether Duley has been assessed by a mental-health practitioner. But in some cases of mother-on-child violence, experts note that the moms were suffering from postpartum disorders, which left untreated, can yield dangerous — and sometimes deadly — consequences. Diane Sanford, psychologist and co-author of Life Will Never Be The Same: The Real Mom's Postpartum Survival Guide talks to TIME about how these illnesses can sometimes cause mothers to snap.
What can you tell me about women who are driven to kill their own children?
In general, women who kill their own children


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JetBlue Attendant Held on Bail as Lawyer Cites Abuse on Flight

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City Room: JetBlue Attendant Held on Bail as Lawyer Cites Abuse on Flight

By By ANDY NEWMAN and MICK MEENAN

Published: August 10, 2010

Steven Slater's lawyer said that the woman passenger who aroused Mr. Slater's ire had slammed an overhead baggage-compartment door onto his head at the beginning of the flight at Pittsburgh.