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Informant dubbed a ‘trailer park Mata Hari’
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Updated:By AMANDA LEE MYERSAssociated PressPHOENIX (AP) – She has been dubbed the “trailer park Mata Hari,” an attractive ex-stripper recruited by the feds to befriend identical twin brothers accused of a white-supremacist bombing and to get them to admit to the crime.She moved into the [...]

Unless Congress acts, the tax cut and added jobless benefits would expire, and doctors’ Medicare payments would be reduced, all on March 1.In a GOP win, the bill would phase down the current maximum 99 weeks of jobless coverage to 73 weeks in the hardest-hit states by autumn, though in most states, people would get [...]

Assessing PGW’s liquid natural gas futureFebruary 12, 2012|By Andrew Maykuth, Inquirer Staff WriterThe gritty Port Richmond waterfront – home to tank farms, wharves and many vacant lots – seems an unlikely location for one of city government’s most valuable assets.But the Philadelphia Gas Works’ Richmond processing plant, beside a sewage treatment plant and a strip [...]

Some of the most significant changes would be to ban jobs in factories, warehouses and other places like seafood packing plants. The agency also plans on “re-emphasizing the adult entertainment industry prohibition by specifically prohibiting jobs with escort services, adult book/video stores, massage parlors, and strip clubs.”…In August 2011, dozens of workers protested conditions at [...]

Ex-stripper sues RI chief accused of taking cash
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Updated:…PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A police chief accused of stealing $714 from a former stripper’s purse after a car chase is now facing a federal lawsuit that alleges he violated her constitutional rights.The former stripper, Justina Cardoso, filed suit on Dec. 22 claiming Col. [...]

… People were sleeping and kids were running down fire escapes,” Nevarez told the San Francisco Chronicle. “It was a bad scene.”As the fire burned during the afternoon, a pillar of thick smoke rose over the neighborhood. Authorities closed several blocks, causing massive traffic jams.Each year, the firefighters union raises money and seeks toy donations [...]

While the measure’s chief ingredients had been clear for days, the 369-page legislation revealed new details. These included letting states administer drug tests to some unemployment benefit applicants; barring welfare recipients from using their benefits at strip clubs, liquor stores and casinos; and cracking down on illegal immigrants collecting federal checks for the children’s tax [...]

In the latest debacle for the J-1 Summer Work Travel visa, a federal indictment unsealed last week accuses the mafia of using the cultural exchange program to bring Eastern European women to work in New York strip clubs.…It’s not clear if the proposed changes would have prevented the situation in New York, in which authorities [...]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The State Department put a freeze Monday on expansion of a program that lines up summer jobs in the U.S. for foreign college students, citing persistent complaints about young people getting ripped off and exploited.At issue is the J-1 visa program, which began in 1963 as a way to encourage cultural [...]

Suit by slain Detroit stripper’s family dismissed
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Updated:By COREY WILLIAMSAssociated PressDETROIT (AP) – A federal judge dismissed a civil lawsuit Tuesday that claimed the city of Detroit and ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a convicted felon, impeded a police investigation into the shooting death of a stripper.U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen said in his [...]