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NAUGATUCK, Conn. – A Connecticut man is facing sexual assault charges, accused of licking a girl’s face after she hit him with a ball. Naugatuck police say 49-nine-year-old Richard Giattino chased down the 12-year-old girl, grabbed her and licked her face. Police say Giattino told them he was in his …

SAN DIEGO – A 16-year-old girl has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle 12 illegal immigrants while posing as a construction worker on the border fence in San Diego. The Border Patrol says the girl, wearing a yellow hard hat and safety vest, was apprehended early Thursday. She was …

Enforcement of laws banning tobacco sales to minors has curbed U.S. teenagers’ smoking rates, a new study finds. Between 1997 and 2003, merchants’ increasing compliance with tobacco- sales laws led to a 21 percent reduction in the number of 10th-graders who were daily smokers, researchers report in the online journal …