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Related Coverage Friday, August 11 12:30 a.m. – 900 block of East Ave. SE, police responded to a home burglary. The victim said a man forced her door open but she was able to shut it. She said after that, he ran away. 2:49 p.m. – 18-year-old Richard Robson, arrested on child rape charges . Robson is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl multiple times over the course of several years. Saturday, August 12 8:57 a.m. – 500 block of Kenmore Ave. SE, a woman reported finding a bullet in her baby’s playpen. She said someone must have shot at her house sometime overnight but she never heard any gunshots. The baby was not in the playpen at the time. Sunday, August 13 1:05 a.m. – 100 block of High St. NW, 36-year-old Shawn Stambolia, arrested on warrants out of Warren, including one for robbery. 8:50 a.m. – 2000 block of Milton St. SE, a woman said someone shot at her house. She said the bullet came in through the bathroom window and went through a wall into the bedroom. 3:30 p.m....

(Photo: Nadezhda1906 / iStock / Getty Images Plus) This story was made possible by support from readers like you. Help Truthout report on the urgent issues of health care, climate change, US foreign policy and more: Make a tax- deductible donation today . When April's paternal nephews first came to live with her, one was two months old and the other was one-and-a-half years old. She had to fill out the paperwork necessary to retrieve the older boy from foster care, where he had been placed months earlier after being removed from his mother. Under California law, if a potential caregiver -- any adult in the household or any adult who might have "significant contact" with the children has an arrest or conviction for anything other than a minor traffic violation -- they must apply for a criminal record exemption . Granting the exemption is at the discretion of each county -- and often the social workers assigned to the family. This has led to an uneven application of the ...

One of the most watched recent murder cases in the Philadelphia area in years wound to a close on Wednesday with David "DJ" Creato, 23, admitting to killing his three-year-old son, Brendan, in October 2015. He pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the case after a 10-day trial on a first- degree murder charge ended in a hung jury and mistrial in May. THE LATEST:   DJ Creato admits he killed son Brendan , takes manslaughter plea deal Here's a day-by-day timeline of the significant events surrounding the case. TUESDAY, OCT. 13, 2015:   David “DJ” Creato reports his son,  Brendan, missing  around 6 a.m. He suggests the three-year-old may have opened the door and left the second-floor apartment they shared. A large community-wide search in Haddon Township ends three hours later when a K-9 located the boy’s lifeless body in Cooper River Park . A death scene investigator from the office of medical examiner   Dr. Gerald “Buck” Feigin  goes to the  scene and subseque...