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Sherwood; her partner, Detective J.R. Smith; and a task force of local and federal agents started searching for Konias on Feb. 28 when police found his security guard partner, Michael Haines, 31, of East McKeesport, shot in the head in the back of a Garda truck in the Strip District. Police said the two men made several cash pickups and deliveries that day, including a stop at the Rivers Casino on the North Shore.
Prosecutors say Konias told investigators he shot Haines outside a Home Depot in Ross when the victim tried to stop the heist.
The hunt for Konias ended on April 24 when a tip led authorities to a nondescript boarding house in a seedy part of Pompano Beach, Fla., where Konias was hiding while spending lavishly on prostitutes, strippers and drugs.
See the full article from “Pittsburgh Tribune-Review”
May 17th, 2012
Finalists: Heidi Dezayas, Zandy Dudiak and Staff, Patch, “Mother, Two Daughters From Plum Drown During Flash Flooding on Friday”Jessica Fera and Scott Ripper, WPXI-TV, “UPMC, American Heart Association Team up for Free Heart Screenings”
Public Affairs/Community Service, TelevisionWinner: Michael Bartley and Frank Caloiero, WQED-TV, “Teen Dating Violence: The Murder of Demi Cuccia”
Finalists: Pierina Morelli, WQED-TV, “Bullying: The Cruelty Crisis” Minette Seate, Chris Moore and Paul Ruggieri, WQED-TV, “For Jeron”
Business/Technology/Consumer Article or Series, MagazinesWinner: Katrina Perkosky and Kimberly F. Williams, Johnstown Magazine, “OMG TMI!!! Keeping Your Kids Safe in the World of Social Networking”
Finalists: Sean D. Hamill, Pittsburgh Quarterly, “Blockbuster”Melissa Rayworth, Pittsburgh Magazine, “G-whiz”
Business/Technology/Consumer Article or Series, Nondaily NewspapersWinner: Tim Schooley, Pittsburgh Business Times, “The Fight for Financing”
Finalists: Lauren Daley and Charlie Deitch, Pittsburgh City Paper, “Stripping Away: Will Tighter Rules Make Strip Clubs Safer or Extinct?”Tim Schooley, Pittsburgh Business Times, “Big Vacancies Mar Otherwise Strong Downtown Office Market”
See the full article from “MarketWatch (press release)”
May 15th, 2012
Dan Ertel, owner of “Lips” strip club, talks to the press outside a hotel in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, April 27, 2012. The Secret Service acknowledged Thursday it is investigating whether its employees hired strippers and prostitutes in advance of President Barack Obama’s visit last year to El Salvador. Ertel said he didn’t know whether any Secret Service employees were among his customers. (AP Photo/Luis Romero) — AP
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In a Wonderland moment, the operator of the “Lips” strip club in San Salvador, Dan Ertel, organized a news conference late Friday and said he didn’t know whether any Secret Service employees were among his customers. Ertel said the club was the only one in the country where prostitutes don’t work. But a dancer who identified herself by her stage name, Yajaira, told the AP earlier in the day that she would have sex with customers for money after her shift ended.
See the full article from “U-T San Diego”
May 4th, 2012
… Look at this party. We have men in tuxes, women in gowns, fine wine, first-class entertainment. I was relieved to hear it was not a GSA conference,” Obama quipped.
He even chided Kimmel, star of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
“Jimmy got his start on the ‘Man Show.’ In Washington, that is what we call a congressional hearing on contraception.”
The dinner was Obama’s fourth as president. It has been a ritual in Washington since 1920, when it was first held to boost communication between the press and the president, according to the association’s website. It was open only to men until 1962, when President John F. Kennedy said he would not attend unless women were invited.
Speaking of women, first ladies have been known to get in their own digs.
In 2005, Laura Bush said friends went out one night to see male strippers after Bush, “Mr. Excitement,” was typically fast asleep at 9 p.m.
See the full article from “WTAE Pittsburgh”
April 29th, 2012
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Secret Service investigating another trip
Secret Service investigating another trip
The Secret Service is investigating news reports of other trips in which employees allegedly engaged the services of prostitutes while traveling abroad in advance of the president, an agency official said.More >>
The Secret Service acknowledged Thursday it is investigating whether its employees hired strippers and prostitutes in advance of President Barack Obama’s visit last year to El Salvador. The disclosure came hours after…
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April 26th, 2012
Misconduct in Colombia Varied, an Inquiry Finds
April 25, 2012 1:00 pm
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and ERIC SCHMITT / The New York Times
WASHINGTON — After the Secret Service scandal erupted nearly two weeks ago, the accusations of egregious behavior by the men entrusted with protecting President Obama seemed clear-cut. Members of Congress and tabloids depicted a dozen agency employees meeting prostitutes in their hotel rooms and drunken revels at brothels or strip clubs involving up to 20 women.
But now, as the Secret Service pursues an inquiry involving interviews with hotel maids, the women involved and the roughly 200 agents and officers assigned to Mr. Obama’s trip to Colombia, the investigators have pieced together a more nuanced story, complicating how the senior agency managers addressed the fates of their employees, according to two officials briefed on the findings.
See the full article from “Pittsburgh Post Gazette”
April 25th, 2012
Aaron Duran, 36, is accused of drugging the drinks of two women on separate occasions at area bars before taking them back to his Greentree Road home and raping them.
Scott police arrested him on March 6 and charged him with two counts each of sexual assault, raping an unconscious victim and rape of a substantially impaired person.
At a preliminary hearing on April 12, District Judge Gary Zyra held him for trial on one sexual assault charge and three of the four rape charges. Zyra dismissed the other two charges.
Scott police allege Duran drugged a 34-year-old woman’s drink while at a McKees Rocks strip club on June 30 and took her home before raping her. Police also said he sexually assaulted a 19-year-old Moon Township woman on Sept. 17.
See the full article from “Patch.com”
April 20th, 2012
Aaron Duran, 36, is accused of drugging the drinks of two women on separate occasions at area bars before taking them back to his Greentree Road home and raping them.
Scott police arrested him on March 6 and charged him with two counts each of sexual assault, raping an unconscious victim and rape of a substantially impaired person.
At a preliminary hearing on April 12, District Judge Gary Zyra held him for trial on one sexual assault charge and three of the four rape charges. Zyra dismissed the other two charges.
Scott police allege Duran drugged a 34-year-old woman’s drink while at a McKees Rocks strip club on June 30 and took her home before raping her. Police also said he sexually assaulted a 19-year-old Moon Township woman on Sept. 17.
See the full article from “Patch.com”
April 19th, 2012
JIMMY RANKIN has probably attended as many East Coast Music Awards
weekends as any musician from Atlantic Canada in the event’s 23-year history, and he’s got the balance between singing and schmoozing down to a science.
“The challenge is to stay relatively sober; I’ve
become quite good at that. You have to pace yourself.
“And stay away from the strip bars,” he adds with a hearty laugh. “But I wouldn’t know anything about those.”
Ironically, the Rankin Family co-founder’s solo career began with a strip club when he filmed the music video for his 2001 single Followed Her Around at Dartmouth’s Ralph’s Place, but the top nominee at this weekend’s mix of awards and showcases has moved on to more prestigious surroundings, with Nashville as his current home base and Nova Scotia his summer getaway.
See the full article from “TheChronicleHerald.ca”
April 12th, 2012
… Dance Moms’ showgirls episode a playground for pedophiles, experts warn
PITTSBURGH — Lifetime’s reality series “Dance Moms,” which follows young girls training at the Abby Lee Dance Company in Pittsburgh, is being ripped for its latest episode involving the child dancers wearing costumes that simulate nudity.
Tuesday night’s episode, titled “Topless Showgirls,” featured girls as young as eight performing a sexually charged, provocative showgirl-like routine in a local dance competition, donning barely-there sparkly flesh-colored bras and panties to give the illusion of nudity.
“All the girls and I feel kind of nervous because we feel kind of naked,” one of the dancers said prior to taking the stage.
Psychological experts and parents groups that spoke to FOXNews.com were up-in-arms over the stripper-esque theme, and fear that the episode could act as encouragement for pedophiles and sexual predators.
See the full article from “SouthCoastToday.com”
March 9th, 2012
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