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JURISPRUDENCE: Former All-Star Alvin Robertson faces sexual assault of a child and sex trafficking charges alleging he was among seven people who kidnapped a 14-year-old girl who was forced into prostitution and made to dance at a strip club, authorities said. Robertson, a former Spur who still lives in San Antonio, Texas, was taken into custody in Bentonville, Ark. An investigation began in April when the girl waved down a police cruiser in Corpus Christi, Texas, and told authorities she had been abducted from San Antonio, Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputy Ino Badillo said. … Heat point guard Carlos Arroyo was charged with resisting arrest after police say he was pulled over for driving suspiciously. The Coral Gables Police Department said a motorcycle officer made several attempts to pull Arroyo over Friday morning.

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Representatives of the club’s ownership attended a Planning Commission meeting seeking a conditional use permit. During the meeting several commission members asked questions and the club’s representatives responded openly to them.
Matt Madzy, board chairman, said members reviewed the request. They looked at the seven points they are required to consider. He said the commission looked at the general use in that location. Members agreed that it was a permitted conditional use.
Madzy added activities at the site would be in compliance with the state gambling laws. If not, someone would then look into the issue. And the conditional use permit would be revoked.
The commission approved the conditional use permit as long as the club conforms with the state and city’s gambling laws, Berea’s signage laws and the mechanical amusement licensing section of the zoning code. It also added the club would not operate as a strip club and alcohol was prohibited.

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The attack happened around 2:30 a.m. on South Water Street, near several popular Kent bars and restaurants. White was found on the sidewalk suffering a severe head injury.
John Ragin Jr., 21, of Akron was charged with felonious assault in connection with the attack.
White was reportedly on his way to a friends birthday party when he was attacked. NewsChannel5 was also told he is a veteran of the Iraq War from Delaware, Ohio.
In November, Kent State student Christopher Kernich was beaten to death, just a few blocks away from White’s attack. Ronald Kelly and Adrian Barker are facing murder charges for that case. Students are surprised by the recent off-campus violence.
University officials said they encourage students to use an escort service and campus phones if they have safety concerns.

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Mark Puente, crime reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has won the 20th annual Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting administered by the University of Colorado School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Puente’s three-month investigation uncovered decades of corruption by Cuyahoga County Sheriff Gerald McFaul,who resigned and is now the subject of a criminal investigation.
Puente, 40, is a former long-haul truck driver who moved his family from Cleveland to the University of North Carolina to start college at the age of 30. He studied political science and then turned to journalism. Second place in the context went to John Diedrich of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Diedrich, 38, who won first place in the Nakkula contest in 2006, wrote about the dual life of a man who served as a deacon in his grandfather’s church while he ran a cocaine selling crew and dispatched prostitutes throughout the Midwest. The judges award special recognition to Jeremy Kohler of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,Tony Rizzo of the Kansas City Star, and Jordan Smith of the Austin Chronicle.

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Fire guts nightclub during early morning hours on Cleveland’s East Side
February 20, 2010, 6:47AM
View full sizeCliff Pinckard / The Plain DealerCleveland firefighters try to bring the flames under control early this morning at Smoove Night Club on East 93rd Street.
Cleveland firefighters responded in force early this morning to battle a blaze that gutted a strip club at the corner of East 93rd Street and Nelson Avenue in Cleveland.
A police officer at the scene said no one reportedly was in Smoove Night Club, 3875 East 93rd St., when the fire was reported between 4 and 5 a.m. this morning.
Cleveland firefighters brought several trucks to the scene, including two ladder trucks to try and control the fire. The roof of the club collapsed during the blaze.

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Car Plows Into Warehouse Building, Driver Tasered
POSTED: 7:40 am EST February 19, 2010
UPDATED: 12:50 pm EST February 19, 2010
TREMONT, Ohio — A Cleveland police zone car was giving special attention to an area that had prostitution and drug activity complaints Thursday night.
In the area of the 2000 block of Castle Avenue, officers observed a vehicle parked on the side of the road with three males inside. One of the officers ran the license plate and the vehicle came back stolen out of Ashtabula County.
The officers activated their lights and approached the vehicle, but it sped off down Castle Avenue, turned north onto Scranton Road and continued on Scranton Avenue.
Police briefly lost sight of vehicle, but believed they were heading toward Train Avenue. While attempting to locate the suspect vehicle, they found the suspects had crashed into the side of a building on Scranton Avenue.

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The trip to Sierra Leone was the second mission project of the program. Mr. Jordan traveled with students and staff to Accra, Ghana, in March 2009. There they teamed with New Horizons School to help children with Asperger syndrome, a form of autism. Next month, they will go to Sao Paolo, Brazil, to help disabled adults and children. Each mission trip is chaired by one Clark student and one Seven Hills staff member.
The response among Clark University students and staff has been positive.
Its especially exciting to see students return with a very different and more informed sense of the world and their place in it, said Edward J. Ottensmeyer, dean of Clarks Graduate School of Management, in a statement.
One of the projects the group hopes to launch in Bo is a small bakery. Mr. Jordan said Fresh-Hope will operate the bakery and offer job opportunities to young women, many of whom have turned to prostitution to survive.

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Between 1923 and 1950 the interests of Stratford and South Warwickshire were represented in Parliament by another ultimately tragic figureSir Anthony Eden (later Lord Avon), who resigned both as Prime Minister and as an MP in January 1957 after the debacle of Suez three months earlier.
The first MP in 1885 was an aristocratic LiberalLord William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton. His tenure was brief. The following year he was succeeded by the Conservative Frederick Townsend, who held the seat until 1892. The next MP was a Conservative by the name of Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdalethe paternal grandfather of the legendary Mitford sisters, who brightened up Britains social, political and literary life both before and after the Second World War.
In 1950 a wealthy Old Harrovian of Italian origins by the name of John Profumo, a former soldier, won the newly re-established seat of Stratford for the Conservatives.
In July 1961, at a party at Lord Astors mansion, Cliveden in Berkshire, Profumo was introduced to the call girl Christine Keeler. . .

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… This gentlemen right here in the tie,” the president said at one point. “You look great.”
The last time a sitting president had visited was when Harry Truman made a stop in 1947, Sefchik said. In contrast, President George W. Bush held a news conference in Savannah during the 2004 G-8 summit of industrial countries, but did not meet the public.
The first leg of the tour – focused on Allentown, Pa., an aging Rust Belt community – also included a speech and a town hall meeting, both at Lehigh Carbon Community College.
The president also talked up his efforts to create jobs and improve health care and education.
“I won’t rest until things get better,” he promised.
‘Not … my jobs strategy’
A sophomore in Allentown wanted to know whether he might seek to stimulate the economy by legalizing gambling, drugs and prostitution.

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The sale price on St. Gerard has not yet been set, said Keenan, but it will be sold at market value, just like the rest of the churches whose sales have generated more than $4 million.
“None of that money goes to the diocese,” he said. “It goes to the new parishes.”
Toward the end of the closing process, Buffalo Bishop Edward Kmiec established a “Church Property Re-use Committee,” made up of developers, real estate brokers, architects and preservationists to come up with ways to market the properties.
“Our bishop is big on collaboration,” said Keenan.
The diocese kept some of the properties for various uses and still has 20 churches for sale.
“We have sales pending on a number of them,” said Keenan, noting that deed restrictions prohibit buyers from using the former churches for abortion clinics, strip clubs, fortune-telling establishments, saloons or casinos.

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