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The idea that two high school football stars would think it acceptable to post pictures of a nude 16-year-old to their friends on social media shows how they thought the normal rules did not apply them. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuley-boteach/

Parents shouldn't be raising boys who rape, and I wish they wouldn't, but ultimately I have very little control over that. The one thing I can control is how much I drink, and how much I encourage others to drink, or rather discourage others to drink -- and not just young women. Keli Goff http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keli-goff/

GREENSBURG, Pa. -- Somber athletes, students and school staff hugged and cried in a century-old chapel on the campus of a small Catholic university outside... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tyler-kingkade/

SAINT-JEROME, Quebec — Two Quebec inmates climbed up a rope into a hovering helicopter to make a daring daylight escape Sunday from a jail northwest... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-goldberg/

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A private jet apparently experiencing mechanical trouble crashed Sunday in a northern Indiana neighborhood, resulting in injuries and striking three homes,... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-goldberg/

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An undercover video that showed California cows struggling to stand as they were prodded to slaughter by forklifts led to the largest... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-goldberg/

SAINT-JEROME, Que. - Two Quebec inmates stunned authorities as they used a helicopter to make a brazen daylight escape from a jail northwest of Montreal... CP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanna-adams/

PHOENIX -- The sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix plans to return to work Monday after spending more than two weeks recuperating from a broken shoulder suffered... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-gentilviso/

MONTREAL (AP) — American welterweight Nick Diaz says he has never paid taxes. The revelation came after he talked about how poor his preparations were... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-greenberg/

CNN appears to have bet on the emotions of those it could show on camera -- for obvious reasons, the victim's identity has been protects, and the victim's family was not shown weeping in court. Networks know that people crying make for great TV. It's telling that this tone continued over multiple segments, despite a cadre of tweets and blog posts deriding the network's earlier coverage. Kia Makarechi http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kia-makarechi/

A 37-year-old man was beaten to death on a platform of the Green Line late Saturday morning in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side,... Chicago Tribune http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-bellware/

PARIS — Police have discovered the body of one of France's most prominent lawyers washed up on a beach near his home in Brittany. The... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-craggs/

Police in Delta, B.C. had to shoot and kill an attacking pitbull on Saturday night. The dog charged an officer, who was on a routine... The Huffington Post B.C. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andree-lau/

WASHINGTON -- It is not the happiest of birthdays for the landmark Supreme Court decision that, a half-century ago, guaranteed a lawyer for criminal defendants... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alana-horowitz/

A Fort Collins Police Detective accused of perjury in a case that led to the wrongful conviction of Tim Masters has resigned. An Associated Press... Andrea Rael http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrea rael/

Taxidebacle! A woman was arrested on Friday after she went to the yard of a Crestview mobile home and stole two deer heads, which were... Andy Campbell http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-campbell/

FERRIDAY, La. — In the spring of 1965, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington received a letter from Concordia Parish in northeastern Louisiana. Addressed... The New York Times http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jessica-anderson/

Story by Quinn Ford, courtesy of DNAinfo Chicago An off-duty suburban police officer is facing criminal charges after a wrong-way crash on Lake Shore Drive... Kim Bellware http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-bellware/

A judge announced on Sunday that the defendants in the Steubenville rape trial were found guilty. Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond had been accused of... Alana Horowitz http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alana-horowitz/

NEW YORK -- Two police officers who killed a 16-year-old boy on a New York City street have been sued for alleged civil rights violations... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inae-oh/