Oct
30
2011
Georgia Roberts, 45, is scheduled to spend Christmas and the New Year in the Seminole County lockup after pleading no contest to aggravated stalking.
According to records, she was sentenced to three months behind bars and five years probation. Among her conditions of release, she must pay a Web specialist to wipe out false allegations she made on a blog about the neighbors. She was accused of making life miserable for the family across the street since 2007.
“Kristi has no comment and neither do I,” said Krueger’s husband, Todd Templin. “It is what it is.”
It all started when she claimed neighbor Randy Fuhrman had sex with her and lied about it to his wife, Jennifer.
Roberts harassed the Fuhrmans at work, at school, at church and at the supermarket. She even sent strippers to their house. They moved twice to avoid Roberts, but she’d pop up nearby in no time.
See the full article from “MiamiHerald.com”
Oct
27
2011
Everyday Hustlin, a Look at Miami Artists’ Day Jobs: Brook Dorsch
“Where my money? I need, I need, I need cash!” Maybe Rick Ross wasn’t singing about the everyday grind of paying bills. But there once was a young Rick Ross, who struggled to find a way to balance his creative ambitions and cash flow. In “Everyday Hustlin’,” we talk with Miami artists about their day jobs.
Brook Dorsch, owner and founder of the Dorsch Gallery in Wywood, does not consider himself an artist although he has been in the game for the last 20 years. (Read a review of his last show here.) “I am just an Art Junkie, technically an Art Pimp.” We spoke Dorsch about his day job.
New Times: Does owning a gallery actually pay the bills or do you have a day job?
See the full article from “Miami New Times (blog)”
Oct
26
2011
… The neighborhood is never going to progress with that kind of negativity. Nothing is going to improve, the prostitution, the crime, unless it’s a community effort,” said Nancy Liebman, vice president of the BIC.
Liebman blamed what she believes was the widespread misinformation by some of the neighbors and Miami blogger Al Crespo and the fact that many people are on vacation during the summer for the failed petition drive.
Abed Hammoud, who owns a vacant lot at 75th Street and Biscayne, has been one of the most vocal opponents of the creation of a Business Improvement District in the area.
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Some areas where the money would have been allocated included security and advertising to try to erase the image of prostitution and crime that has characterized the area in the past, according to Scott Timm, former executive director of the MiMo BIC.
See the full article from “MiamiHerald.com”
Oct
26
2011
L.A. film critic Kenneth Turan calls it “…a great gust of very funny fresh air.”
Starring Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle, this film will be shown Oct. 27-31, with shows weekdays and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. (no Saturday matinee) and Sunday at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. “The Guard” is rated R for language, some violence, drug material and sexual content, and runs for 100 minutes.
An unorthodox Irish policeman (Gleeson) with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent (Cheadle) to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring. Sgt. Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.
See the full article from “Southern Pines Pilot”
Oct
24
2011
US officials want to help more trafficking victims
Story Created: Oct 24, 2011 at 5:07 PM America/New_York
MIAMI (AP) – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says more people are applying for visas aimed at victims of human trafficking following a major outreach effort.
During the last 12 months, nearly 1,000 individuals applied for special T Visas. These visas are given to individuals brought to the U.S. illegally and forced into prostitution or other servitude.
The number of applications was nearly double that of 2010 applications. Many came following the outreach campaign, but that’s still below the annual cap of 5,000 Congress authorized in 2000.
Officials spoke Monday in Miami to law enforcement and immigrant advocacy groups as part of their outreach.
The visas are part of a larger number of visas available to crime victims to encourage them to cooperate with law enforcement regardless of their immigration status.
See the full article from “Wink News”