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A Hollister man faces sentencing after pleading no contest to raping two local women after using a social networking website to lure them.

DEAR ABBY: I have been accepted to a school that's the alma mater of several of my relatives. My mother, several aunts and other family members all belonged to one sorority at this college. They are urging me to pledge there and uphold the family tradition.

Littermates Aladdin and Merlin are 8 months old. They are sweet, playful and good with other cats. They have been at the San Martin Animal Shelter since June 2011. If you are interested in adopting this or any other animal at the shelter, please call (408) 686-3900.

There's nothing particularly novel about the grim view of humanity in French director Xavier Gens' brutal post-apocalyptic horror show, "The Divide." But that doesn't make this overwrought but harrowing film feel like any less of a body blow to the soul.

Whether it's a fast run to the mall to pick up a birthday gift, a stop at the ATM for some walking-around cash or merely darting out of the house to get to an appointment, too often our minds are on a million different things. A million different things, that is, except for one thing we should be thinking of: safety.

DEAR ABBY: "Friend of a Lonely Child" complained his wife didn't like him befriending the neighbor boy, "Donny," whose father is terminally ill.