… Stephanie Hannum, 22, of East Main Street, was arrested Saturday and charged with driving while intoxicated.
* Leon Bunton, 26, of South 4th Street, was arrested Saturday and charged with resisting arrest, obstruction of justice and also served with a warrant. Police said he fled after a motor vehicle stop and they then discovered he had two warrants from the county superior court for child support. He was lodged in the Cumberland County Jail in lieu of bail.
* Kalief Davis, 28, of North 3
Street, was arrested Saturday and served with two warrants from Vineland and the Hudson County Sheriff’s Department. He was lodged in the Cumberland County Jail.
* Jill Williams, 26, of Route 49, was arrested Sunday and charged with prostitution. She was released on a summons.

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It has been more than 26 months since Jimmy Koons was knocked unconscious and left bleeding from his ears and head in the parking lot of a Southwest Philadelphia strip club.

“I will definitely be back for the criminal trial,” he said last week. “I want justice, that’s all. I want justice for my friend who got killed. I will be there for Jimmy.”The cases have been continued until Oct. 15 due to the combination of a crowded Philadelphia docket and scheduling conflicts among the attorneys, prosecutors and judge.Pettit’s attorney, Gregory Pagano, expects his client to beat the murder rap.“I don’t think the evidence shows what the charges would require the evidence to show,” he said. “In other words, I don’t think the evidence shows that a murder was committed.”Pagano said Pettit used an appropriate amount of force and claims the video confirms that fact.“I’ve seen it a few times and I think it is consistent with what my client said happened,” he said.At the time of his …

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Nutter and Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey should turn this homicide initiative into a flipping game show.
Imagine the person with the information regarding who killed Olabode. I don’t know what that inside info is worth but might Nutter pay out $40,000 for the heads of these assassins.
Imagine a person telling Nutter that he can relinquish Killer No. 1 only if the mayor provides that informant with a new identity. No doubt, in some cases “snitches” will require such protection.
Philadelphia apparently paid out $20,000 for information that helped police solve this month’s murder of a 23-year-old Temple University graduate.
Those arrested in that case were not gangbangers fighting over drugs, prostitution or other vices. Gang members mean business. They keep an eye out for a neighbor who just had a ginormous flat-screen delivery or who pulled up in a new vehicle.

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UPDATE – Men charged with bringing in woman for prostitution with farm workers

BURLINGTON. – Two men are facing charges for allegedly bringing a woman from New York City to Vermont to engage in prostitution with farm workers.
Jose Lorenzo Cardona-Paguada and Rafael Posadas-Lara appeared Thursday in federal court in Burlington, where they were ordered to remain in custody pending trial on charges of transporting for prostitution. Officials say the two men and the woman, Maribel Huerta-Mendez, are illegal immigrants.
The Burlington Free Press reported that border patrol agents recovered two notebooks with names, addresses and phone numbers of farms in Vermont and New York, along with a ledger of prostitution transactions.
The case is the second in the past year involving charges that Hispanic women from New York were brought to Vermont farms for prostitution purposes. Many Vermont dairy farms employ foreign workers.

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Arrest (hindering), 1:05 a.m. — Police arrested Althea S. Henderson, 45, of the 300 block of Keasby Street, Salem, after she provided false information to avoid arrest on an outstanding warrant during a disorderly person investigation at the Aloft hotel, according to a report. She was charged with obstruction and hindering. Her bail was set at $5,000 and she was committed to the Burlington County Jail, police said.
Arrest (shoplifting), 4 p.m. — Police arrested Amber B. Farley, 24, of the 100 block of Garden Street, Mount Holly, for shoplifting approximately $19 in merchandise from ShopRite on Ark Road, police said. She was released pending a municipal court hearing.
Jan. 23
Arrest (prostitution), 3:30 p.m. — Police arrested Lisa D. Perry, 42, of the 1100 block of Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, for prostitution and possession of marijuana following an investigation at a hotel on the 500 block of Fellowship Road, according to a report. She was released pending a municipal court hearing.

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… You cannot just agree to say we’re going to change [the redevelopment plan] without seeing the benefits of the town. These changes are being made to placate the developer,” Miller said.
These were changes that the planning/zoning board also voted down last week after the matter was referred to them for advice by council.
“This looks like something of a prison,” said George Gallenthin, a resident obviously disturbed about a proposed rendering he saw of the new Bottom Dollar market. The building appears to have limited windows and doors, which is seen as an unfavorable design by some locals.
The 20,000 square foot store is expected to be built from the ground up, if everything goes according to plan.
“It looks like a holding cell before you go to FEMA camp,” Gallenthin insisted.
Gallenthin said bringing the market to town was also going to be the prelude to increased drug activity and prostitution in town.

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There are literally hundreds of scathing reviews for these grim hotels but in order to find them, travelers need to click through fourteen pages of higher rated hotels on the site. Travel publications devote a huge amount of space to celebrating the world’s best hotels, but virtually none to condemning the worst ones, so it’s easy to see how inexperienced travelers could be disappointed in New York, America’s most expensive city, where $100 a night doesn’t buy much.
I spent a good deal of time traveling on a budget in the developing world and consider myself to be something of a cheap hotel aficionado. I’ve stayed in hotels frequented by drunks, prostitutes and outright criminals, places with no running water, pit toilets with no doors, filthy mattresses tossed on the floor- places squalid enough to occasionally inhabit my nightmares to this day. But I haven’t stayed in any of these hotels, so please note that these reflections are those of travelers writing on Trip Advisor. And even the worst reviewed places have some defenders. But not many. Per the Trip Advisor ratings, here are the worst among the worst:

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There’s admission of the mistake, without blame-shifting. There’s acknowledgment of the pain it caused (not “might have caused,” as half-baked apologies go). There’s promise of future “caution, restraint and humility.” And there’s significant consequences for Edwards himself.
” . . . I will be stepping down from my post as Managing Editor, effective immediately,” he wrote. “I take full responsibility for the events that transpired tonight, and for the black mark upon the organization that I have caused.”
Edwards sounded so sincerely anguished, so willing to own the hot mess he’d cooked, I was practically cheering for him by the time he ended his note with a plea not for forgiveness, but understanding.
It’s rare that we hear a perfect apology. The “non-apology apology” of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer comes to mind, in which he acted noble for resigning from the office he disgraced by hooking up with a prostitute.

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Requests for Tukey as a speaker are CONSIDERABLY LOWER THAN 2011, and GREATLY LOWER THAN 2010.
Tukey’s IMPORTANCE HAS DWINDLED, to such an extent that he spent EARTH WEEK 2011 in the company of a BUNCH OF BACK-WOODS LOSERS IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE IN THE BRITISH COLUMBIA INTERIOR.
EARTH WEEK is the HOLY WEEK for Enviro-Lunatic-Terrorists, and the MOST IMPORTANT ENVIRO-LUNATIC WEEK OF THE YEAR.
During EARTH WEEK 2011, NOBODY wanted to hear Tukey’s MIS-INFORMATION concerning pest control products, nor did they want to hear HIS SHILLING about HIS array of BOGUS For-Profit Green Alternatives.
Tukey is NO LONGER the Flavour-of-the-Month, and is now a DISMAL FAILURE as a guest speaker.
Rumours are now circulating that Tukey can only find work as a SEX-WORKER-MANAGER since FEMALE-ENVIRO-LUNATICS think he is somehow attractive. :-)

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… Kids play there, tour groups come by, it has been used in films, people come here for their wedding pictures because it’s so beautiful,” Landes said. “Public use is the paramount issue when it comes to determining whether something is a public road or not. The city plan is not the beginning and end of making that decision.”
“The Colonial-period landowner and his heirs never chose to give it to the city and that’s not as uncommon as you’d think,” DiMarco said. “The city doesn’t want it. It’s not on their plan. They don’t want it on their plan.”
The Landeses filed court documents last month saying the city should take official ownership of the disputed land. They and other like-minded neighbors, some with “Save Irving Street” fliers in their windows, say the claim about prostitutes and drug users frequenting the dead-end is a red herring that hints at an unstated goal: gating it off and blocking public access.

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