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She said Victoria Police was chairing a high-level taskforce trying to tackle the state's youth crime wave. Ms Nixon said rehabilitation and education was vital, suggesting a curfew would be hard to enforce. "I think they're very hard to police. They take large amounts of resources," she said. "I think in different parts of the world it's the answer but I come back to the idea that it's the responsibility of parents to know where their kids are." Child Safety Commissioner Bernie Geary, who last month slammed parents for serving their kids alcohol, said 16-year-olds should not be left home alone. Share this article What is this? .
Dawn Gibbons finds being Nevada's first lady has ups and downs
Dawn Gibbons, Nevada's first lady, knows this should be the best time of her life.
On a recent sunny afternoon at the Governor's Mansion, prison trustees were putting up Halloween decorations in expectation of the arrival of several thousand trick-or-treaters. The governor's 2-year-old granddaughter dropped by for lunch. The food in the place is so good she's banned her husband from eating any more ice cream.
This might be a happy day, but Gibbons has experienced a good deal of stress in her 10 months as first lady.
The popularity ratings of her governor-husband, Jim, remain lower than American support for the war in Iraq. And about the time they were moving into the mansion in January, the Wall Street Journal reported a federal grand jury was investigating whether Jim Gibbons took bribes when he was in Congress.
Coal miners in Western Va. caught in cycle of drug abuse
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Va. — The crowd is gathering early in the dirt parking lot outside the Clinch Valley Treatment Center, the only methadone clinic within 80 miles. Third in line, Jeff Trapp smokes Winstons in his pickup, watching the cars turn off the highway and settle behind him, tires crunching on cold gravel, headlights glaring. It is 2:45 a.m., and Trapp has been awake for two hours. The clinic does not start dosing until 5.Like Trapp, many of the patients who filled the lot one recent morning have jobs at far-off mines that start at 6 or 7. They sleep upright in their vehicles, slumped against the steering wheel, dressed for work in steel-toed black boots and coveralls lined with orange reflective strips. Dark rings circle their eyes where the previous day's coal dust didn't wash off."Everybody you see here works," says Trapp, his smoke-cured voice a low rumble.
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