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Officials in a North Carolina coastal town hope a former strip club can find new life as a branch campus of a community college. Brunswick Community College president Steve Greiner told the StarNews of Wilmington for a story Saturday that Close Encounters in Calabash was bought for $1 million from its South Carolina owners. Greiner said the 15,000-square-foot building will be renovated for continuing education classrooms and should open this year.  

A victims advocacy group will hold a memorial service Sunday night for the Rocky Mount woman whose remains were found earlier this month in Halifax County. Deputies with the Halifax County Sheriff's Office found the body — identified last week as 43-year-old Christine Boone — in a wooded area March 5 behind the former Scotland Neck home of Antwan Maurice Pittman. Pittman has not been charged in Boone's death.  

Two women were arrested for prostitution and related charges after Berks County investigators raided The Oriental Spa on Starr Road Thursday. Kyung Ae Kang, 38, and Mei Hua Jin, 42, both with addresses listed at the Oriental Spa/Message Therapy at 59 Starr Road, were taken into custody by police. The two were committed to Berks County Prison in lieu of $15,000 cash bail.  

An alleged sex worker has been found guilty of running a brothel in Ipswich. managing a brothel in Alexandra Road after police raided the house and found women dressed in skimpy clothes including black underwear, black negligees and stockings. verdict yesterday. During the trial, the court heard police had raided the brothel on July 10 last year and found condoms, lingerie, lubricant and a sex toy. Joanne Eley, prosecuting, also referred to a witness statement from a nearby resident who told the c  

A prostitute has been jailed for 21 days after complaining of breaking her nails at community work and failing to carrying out voluntary work at a Wanganui primary school. Tala Jepsen, 19, appeared in New Plymouth District Court for re-sentencing after pleading guilty to two breaches of community work. The court was told she had failed to carry out both the voluntary work she agreed to do and the 60 hours of community work it was replaced with, the Taranaki Daily News reported.  

The details read like a cheap novel: a nationwide prostitution ring with high-priced hookers working in fancy hotels; a clientele that supposedly included pro athletes and politicians; all orchestrated by a pimp nicknamed "Cross Country Redd" who operated from the unlikeliest of locales – Little Elm, Texas. The pimp, authorities say, is Marcus Choice Williams, who was scheduled to go on trial Feb. 1 in Dallas on federal prostitution trafficking charges. But on the eve of the trial, Williams skipped town

There's nothing about him that screams violence   -Scott H Palmer

 

Richardson had been a sex trafficking victim in that same hotel 13 years earlier. Now 30, married, and the mother of four children, Richardson operates Money Maniac, teaching people how to save money on groceries. Sitting in her Rockwood office, she recalled how she came to live in the world of tricks and tracks.  

Ottawa police say four out-of-towners they arrested Wednesday at Kroger South came to Ottawa to pass bogus checks. Arrested were Marquez A. Davis, also known as Johnny Carter, 28, 5211 Tolliver, Springfield, Mo.; Carmelita C. Parker, 24, 6446 Marshfield, Chicago; Kenedra R. Harris, 20, 1054 W. 63rd St., Chicago; and Octavia M. Anderson, 33, 445 Prairie St., Calumet City. Each was charged with conspiracy to commit forgery.  

Now she sees it as an issue affecting young women and girls right here in East Multnomah County. "It's an issue in all of our schools, in all of our neighborhoods," said McKeel, who represents Gresham and East County on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners. "I used to think, 'Oh that happens in foreign countries.' But it's happening in our shopping malls. It's amazing."