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A Southern California woman was stabbed multiple times and left for dead as she was walking home from church carrying a Bible in her hand. Police have no suspects at this time but believe it was likely an attempted robbery.
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Julia Sullivan, a Nebraskan teenage girl with limited arms and no legs, overcame her barriers and was able to live her dream of being a cheerleader in Portland, Michigan 800 miles from home with the help of a coach who read her story online.
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If you’ve had enough of slasher films, murky dramas, and gruesome fables that degrade the human spirit, check out a new film about a real life heroine.
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An overweight New York man has filed a lawsuit against the White Castle fast-food chain alleging they have violated his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act by not accommodating people of his size by providing larger, more comfortable booths.
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The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Monday against Starbucks Coffee Company for refusing reasonable accommodation and firing a barista with dwarfism, conduct allegedly violating the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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The Broken Arrow City Council unanimously decided Tuesday to allow a depressed woman to keep her disabled kangaroo named Irwin.
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A UK Christian think tank reports that disabled people are being routinely excluded from church life. Ekklesia quotes a disability expert, Dr Gordon Temple, as saying that disabled people have told him no one speaks to them when they attend church.
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MP Olivia Chow(Trinity—Spadina, NDP) introduced Bill C-556, An Act to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (exception to inadmissibility) in the House of Commons.
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On Wednesday, a court in the United Kingdom convicted a 57-year-old woman of murder. The woman ended the life of her 22-year-old brain damaged son with a heroin overdose.
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When the birth of a child results in a situation where a disability or handicap seemingly overwhelms the family, more often than not the fight for services seems like an all out war. But what happens when those services hold that person hostage?
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Disability Headlines
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 Child welfare workers too often jump to conclusions that parents with physical disabilities can't adequately care for their children, the head of a national advocacy group for people with disabilities says.
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Dozens of disabled people have clashed with police in Bolivia during a protest calling for higher state subsidies.
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