Showing posts with label Associated Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Associated Press. Show all posts

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Porky's Revenge!


The sex-crazed teenagers of Angel Beach High School are back for the third and final time. They continue to be harassed by the gym teacher, Beulah Balbricker, who catches them watching porn in the school library. During the semi-final basketball game, the cheerleaders promise them an orgy if they win. The boys are highly motivated at this point and win the game. After the game, the boys are led to one of the girls homes, and everyone strips down to their underwear and jumps in a swimming pool. In the pool, the girls throw their underwear out of the pool. The guys do likewise, and swim toward the girls. Soon, but too late, they realize the girls are clothed after all and wind up parading nude before the clothed girls and a movie camera. A few minutes later, the parents return home and the boys are forced to flee....More>>
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Monday, October 11, 2010

Hunt To Kill


Steve Austin stars as U.S. Border Patrol agent Jim Rhodes, a tough divorcee mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana. But when a crew of trigger-happy fugitives takes Rhodes and his daughter hostage, a rugged wilderness will explode in all-terrain vengeance. Is there any wounded animal more dangerous than a lawman left for dead?
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

4 dead, including child, 1 hurt in Boston shooting




AP – A man comforts a grieving woman near the scene of a shooting in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston, …





BOSTON – A shooting early Tuesday left a toddler and three others dead, and a fifth person was hospitalized and not expected to survive, police said. There have been no arrests, and police have asked for the public's help.

Police responded to the Boston's Mattapan neighborhood just after 1 a.m. Two men and a woman found in the street were pronounced dead at the scene.

The toddler, 2 or 3, died later at the hospital, police department spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said. A man in his 30s was taken to a hospital and is not expected to survive, she said.

No names were released, and it was too early to speculate on a motive, Driscoll said.

"Right now, it's an extremely active homicide investigation," Driscoll said.

Investigators think the victims knew the shooter, and the commissioner appealed to the public for help in apprehending the suspect or suspects.

Police are looking for a silver or gray Ford Explorer that may be connected to the shooting. The vehicle was seen leaving shortly after the shooting, Driscoll said.

Police recovered a "significant amount of evidence" at the scene, Commissioner Edward Davis said., without getting specific.

The shooting took place on Woolson Street, lined with close-packed, three-story homes. Family and friends of the victims hugged and cried behind yellow police tape Tuesday as neighbors looked on, shaking their heads.

"Why?" one woman wailed, as others attempted to console her. A minister was also at the scene.

Mattapan is on the southern edge of the city near the border with the affluent suburb of Milton.

The shooting was the latest in a spike of violence in the city that has frustrated police, politicians and community leaders. There had been 50 homicides in the city as of Sept. 27, according to police department data, up from 40 in the same period last year. In Mattapan, there had been 14 homicides in 2010 prior to Tuesday's incident, compared to six at the same time in 2009.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino was so affected by the slaying of a pizza delivery driver in early September that he told a group of college students that he would torture the three suspects, one of whom is a teenage girl. Menino, who had met the victim's daughters when they had previously worked in the mayor's office, later said he regretted the remarks.

Tuesday's shooting was the single deadliest in Boston since December 2005, when four young men — including three members of a rap group — were fatally shot in a makeshift basement recording studio in the Dorchester neighborhood. Two men are serving prison sentences in connection with that shooting.



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Friday, September 24, 2010

Fourth male says he had sexual relationship with Ga. pastor

Leader of megachurch says he will address allegations Sunday



Eddie Long

John Bazemore / AP
Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., says he will wait until Sunday services to speak publicly about claims that he coerced young men into sex. He has denied the allegations.



By GREG BLUESTEIN


ATLANTA — A fourth young male member of Bishop Eddie Long's megachurch is suing the prominent pastor, claiming Long coerced him into a sexual relationship.

The lawsuit was filed by Spencer LeGrande, a member of New Birth Charlotte. New Birth Charlotte is a satellite church run by Long in Charlotte, N.C. The lawsuit said Long told LeGrande "I will be your dad" and invited the 17-year-old to journey to Kenya with him in July 2005. LeGrande said that Long gave him a sleeping pill on that trip and that the two engaged in sexual acts.

The Associated Press does not typically identify alleged victims of impropriety, but attorney B.J. Bernstein has said all four of the men who filed lawsuits consented to being identified publicly.

The lawsuit claims Long convinced LeGrande that "engaging in a sexual relationship was a healthy component of his spiritual life," the complaint said.

LeGrande, now 22, said the two continued their relationship on a February 2006 trip to South Africa and after he moved to Atlanta at Long's encouragement. He said that Long also instructed him not to have girlfriends, but that he pulled away in the spring of 2009 after he became "disillusioned." He moved back to Charlotte in October, it said.

The complaint, filed in DeKalb State Court, comes after three other men filed lawsuits on Tuesday and Wednesday saying they were 17- and 18-year-old members of the church when they say Long abused his spiritual authority to seduce them with cars, money, clothes, jewelry, international trips and access to celebrities.

Long is expected on Sunday to deliver the first public message since the men accused him of having sexual relationships with them. He has vehemently denied any wrongdoing through his lawyer and a Twitter posting.

Bishop's attorney, Craig Gillen, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Friday.

The bishop has been an outspoken opponent of gay marriage.

Long's boys' academy guided teens through their "masculine journey" with lessons on financial discipline and sexual control, right down to a little card the students had to carry in their wallets reminding them why they shouldn't have sex.

The TV pastor bills the boys' academy as a "rite of passage program for males," and it trains about 100 students during a four-month session for $500 a person. Long and his board of advisers, which includes NFL star Ray Lewis, created a daunting regimen.

Long, himself a stocky and muscular man, demands the students run 2 miles in less than 15 minutes and bench press and squat their weight. They even have to write a report on the documentary "Super Size Me," which chronicles a man who eats only fast food during every meal for a month.

Long — whose church's finances have been investigated by Congress — wants the students to keep a sharp fiscal mind, too. They have to understand social security, calculate interest rates on investments and work a job for at least three months.

Long also focuses on relationships, with students making a vow of sexual purity. The young men carry a "SEX Self-Check Card" in their wallets listing their vision for life, a favorite scripture and "3 things you could be doing instead of having sex."

"Our methodology here at LongFellows is to invade and bring about a culture with these young men that they start believing in a standard that they have something that they hold to, that they never give up or never give in, do the things that they are ordained to do," Long said in a promotional video.

That video has been removed from the academy's website since the lawsuits were filed, along with a list of testimonials.

In one of those testimonials, a graduate of the program extolled its virtues.

"Without the LongFellows, I don't know where I'd be," said a young graduate who identified himself as Fabian Stone. "I don't know whether I'd be dead, on the streets, selling drugs — I don't know where I'd be."

A telephone listing for Stone could not be found.



Two of the three plaintiffs, though, said in the lawsuits that Long was too cozy with the academy's participants. A third man, who was not enrolled in the academy, has filed a lawsuit making similar accusations.

Anthony Flagg, who joined at age 16, said Long chose him as a "spiritual son" after learning of the young man's challenges growing up without a father. Flagg moved into another minister's home after being arrested on an assault charge — when he was 18. Long would visit, crawl into bed with him and the two would engage in sexual acts, the lawsuit said.

A second plaintiff, Maurice Robinson, said his mother enrolled him in the LongFellows program when he was 14. Long started lavishing attention on him the next year, and a church employee soon rewarded the teen with a Chevy Malibu, the lawsuit said. The two began engaging in sexual acts after an October 2008 trip to New Zealand.

The Associated Press does not normally identify people who claim they are victims of sexual impropriety. But Bernstein, the attorney, has said her clients consented to being named publicly.

The academy's supporters say it was anything but a breeding ground for Long. DeKalb County Sheriff Thomas Brown, who also sits on the academy's advisory board, said it helps keep kids out of trouble.

For instance, the teens learn about the dangers of guns by watching what happens when watermelons and cantaloupes are shot at a firing range. And the sheriff came up with a "verbal judo" course that teaches them how to defuse hostile situations.

"We try to make it so they can make healthy choices for their life," he said.
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Monday, September 20, 2010

'Sexting' Wis. Prosecutor Says He'll Get Therapy



(AP) MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin district attorney said Friday he'll get therapy and take time off but rejected growing calls for his resignation over sexual text messages he sent to a domestic abuse victim.

At a news conference two days after The Associated Press reported the messages, Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz offered a "sincere and heartfelt apology" to the woman, his soon-to-be-ex-wife and the public. He said the messages demonstrated arrogance.

"This behavior showed a lack of respect, not only for my position but for the young woman that was involved," he said from the courthouse in Chilton in remarks carried live by Wisconsin television stations. "My behavior was inappropriate. I'm embarrassed and ashamed for the choices that I've made and the fault was mine alone."

The statement marked the most remorse Kratz has shown since acknowledging Wednesday he sent 30 text messages in three days to the 26-year-old woman last October, causing her to report the harassment to police.

In one, the 50-year-old asked whether she was "the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA." In others he called her a "tall, young, hot nymph" and questioned whether her "low self-esteem" was to blame for her lack of interest. At the time, he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend on strangulation charges.

Critics blasted Kratz for refusing to resign and said his news conference was unconvincing. Kratz, 50, left without taking questions after reading a four-minute statement.

Rep. Fred Kessler, D-Milwaukee, and two victims' advocacy groups said Gov. Jim Doyle must remove him from office. Kratz's apology came after Doyle spokesman Adam Collins said the governor was "surprised and shocked by these deeply troubling accounts" and a group representing district attorneys said he had embarrassed their profession.

"His repeated attempts to minimize his behavior show he either is in denial or only concerned for his personal interests," the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault said in a statement. "This pattern would be expected from criminal defendants, but not a sitting district attorney."

The groups urged Doyle and Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to "act swiftly to restore justice in Calumet County." Kratz, a Republican, is not up for re-election in his $105,000 annual job until November 2012.

Collins said his office had been in touch with Van Hollen's and was reviewing the steps to remove a prosecutor. No decision has been made how to proceed.

Kessler, a former judge, said prosecutors and judges should be held to a higher standard but "obviously District Attorney Kratz does not agree with that."

"Simply taking self-imposed time off is not a solution," Kessler said in a statement.

In an exclusive phone interview with the AP afterward, Kratz said he received six months of individual psychotherapy after the messages were disclosed and would get more.

He said he would take time off for treatment only "unfortunately as our staffing level and the court calendar may permit." Kratz noted his office only has two prosecutors, and some cases cannot be reassigned, such as that of a man charged with sexually assaulting a child who he plans to try next week.

"The preparation has been substantial for it," he said. "Because of the seriousness of the case, it's something that I need to handle."

Kratz said he had also met with his staff this week to discuss policy changes "to ensure this kind of thing won't reoccur." He declined to elaborate.

Kratz had struck a far different tone in an interview earlier Friday. He said he was the victim of a "smear campaign" that was unfair because he did not commit a crime and the Office of Lawyer Regulation found he did not technically commit misconduct.

The board of the Wisconsin District Attorneys' Association on Friday called Kratz's behavior repugnant and "inconsistent with the standards of our profession." In a letter to Kratz, the group said such behavior would get anyone in their offices fired, and Kratz should reflect and take the appropriate action; otherwise, it will ask Doyle to consider removing him.

Kratz was president of the association in 1996 and its designee on the Wisconsin Crime Victims' Rights Board until December, when he resigned under pressure from state officials. Kratz had helped write the law creating the board, which has the power to reprimand public officials who mistreat crime victims, and served as its only chairman since 1998.

"Protecting the rights of crime victims has been my life's work," he said at the news conference.

After the woman went to police, Kratz stepped away from the case but tried to keep the matter quiet. In e-mail exchanges with state officials, Kratz called the texts "a series of respectful messages" and sought to keep them from the public, his peers and state regulators.

Attorney Michael Fox said Friday he is representing the victim, Stephanie Van Groll, of Merrill. He said he is investigating whether she has a viable legal claim that Kratz's text messages violated her civil rights and has been surprised by Kratz's lack of remorse.

"You would have to have a lapse of brain function in order to believe this could in any way be construed as innocent behavior," he said. He added, "It doesn't take a lot to text 'I'm sorry'."
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