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2008-11-20 Salons were brothels, Feds say

Frey owned the brothels through straw corporations called Crown Venture, said Assistant U. S. Attorney Ye-Ting Woo. Nguyen was Freys manager -- as well as a prostitute -- operating the brothels disguised as tanning salons, spas and massage businesses, according to Woo and the indictment.

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Several people were arrested Tuesday morning as part of a federal investigation into a tanning salon allegedly operating as a front for prostitution.

2008-11-20 New Animal Shelter A Doggy Death House

Despite the debate at the meeting it is likely that the gas chamber will be built. For the council to even debate the issue a majority of the members need to agree to discuss the proposal in an open meeting. A straw poll of council members shows only one is willing to even discuss the idea of scraping the gas chamber.

Carbon monoxide used for individual animals or mass euthanasia is acceptable for dogs, cats, and other small mammals, provided that commercially compressed CO is used.

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An emotional meeting Tuesday night in West Valley City as dozens of animal lovers packed the city council chambers to express outrage over a plan to include a carbon monoxide gas chamber at the citys new animal shelter under construction. - West valley animal shelter gas chamber utah news kutv 2news

2008-11-20 Tango Siempre (From The Oxford Times)

Tango Siempre were very smooth and very Nuevo Tango. They created pleasing modernist sounds with dissonance in Straw Dogs, and electronic loops in Trip, Hop, and Fugue. Jazz, though, was their main nuevo influence. Pianist and composer Jonathan Taylor is steeped in it and his beautiful long solo intro to Only Human was pure jazz. He also fused tango with jazz hero John Coltraines Giant Steps. Even bandonen virtuoso Paulo Russo had a go and punctuated the old tango war-horse, La Cumparsita, with a jazz interlude, difficult on his instrument.

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2008-11-18 Dog fighting operation raided The Times Daily Florence, AL

She said she didnt know a thing about the dog fights, she was just having a cookout and friends coming over," Wilson said. The sheriff said evidence of where the dogs had been kept was scattered all over the area. Several 55-gallon barrels, with straw inside for bedding, were being used as dog houses.

It was one of the worst scenes Ive ever seen," the sheriff said. "One of the dogs had an eye gone, one had his leg chewed very badly and everyone of them, with the exception of the puppies, had numerous bites and cuts all over their body. Some had very large gashes on the bodies. It was a sickening sight. "

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A tip to police led law enforcement to break up a large dog fighting operation in Wayne County, Tenn. , authorities said. Wayne County Sheriff Ric Wilson said that Saturday, between 8:30-9 p. m. , officers from the - Article Content Genre

2008-11-18 Build a Mulefoot Pig House

Last Saturday was one of those days when I woke up knowing exactly what I was going to do. I had been mulling pig shelter designs for the past couple of weeks this mulling usually takes place around 2:07a. m. when the dogs join the local coyote chorus and wake me up. What I decided on was a low, floorless shed that would be relatively easy to move around and that could be stuffed with straw for our little

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Hank and Kate build the Mulefoot pigs a new house . using scraps found in their barn. - Do it yourself pig shed shelter mulefoot hog shelter recycle scrap

2008-11-17 Brian Morton: Nessie is much more than a monster to us UK news The Observer

The curious thing about Loch Ness studies is that all the debunking in the world doesnt seem to make a dent on the phenomenon. One by one, the classic photographs and iconic sightings are ticked off as natural phenomena or pranks: swimming deer, mergansers, a family of otters, fertiliser bags filled with straw, fishing-boat fenders and a broken hatstand (that was us; we were young and needed the money, though nobody wanted the snaps), vegetable mats bubbling up from the goo, boat wakes and standing waves, logs and even dogs - one famous picture is alleged to be a double-exposed Labrador with a stick in its mouth, which seems to me an even greater jump of imagination than thinking it represents a living fossil alive and breeding in a Scottish loch.

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Brian Morton: We cling to the myth because it goes right to the heart of our culture and who we think we are - Scotland Scotland Travel UK news Observer UK news

2008-11-16 Amish on the rise across Kentucky courier-journal The Courier-Journal

Barefoot children play in farmyards, petting their herding dogs, riding ponies or swaying on swings suspended from trees.

Men in blue shirts and straw hats stoop in fields and swiftly harvest tobacco with their hands and knives.

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On a balmy fall evening along a narrow road on the Graves-Hickman county line, Toby Borntreger stood in a small corral, training a feisty young horse while some of his nine children played nearby with a pony. - Local News courier-journal Louisville Kentucky News local news headlines stories world news

2008-11-13 Boulder Vet Recalls Time As POW In Germany

The barracks were like chicken coups and prisoners slept on straw mattresses. The food was primarily barley soup and -- he recalled -- it was god-awful.

Its hard to say what was in it for meat, I recognized old cats and dogs and stuff like that. "

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A Veteran of World War II, Lloyd Hansen looked back on the 591 days he spent as a Prisoner of War in Germany. Hansen was a bombardier on his 18th mission when his B-17 was shot down. So he bailed out over occupied France and eventually was captured and interrogated by the Germans. - Lloyd hansen pow mia veteran prisoner of war missing in action wwii world war 11

2008-11-13 Submerged car pulled from Green River; search for missing 13-year-old occupant continues Tacoma, WA

The families of the two boys had put down fresh straw at the point where the car went off the road and started a memorial of flowers, balloons and stuffed animals.

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2008-11-13 Franklin to unveil sculpture Milford, MA - The Milford Daily News

She included a dog for children, she said, and since Franklin was one of largest producers of straw hats, she gave the boy a straw hat. To commemorate Benjamin Franklin and his donation of books that allowed the town to start its first public lending collection, the boy sits atop six or seven "wonderful classic books," Billig said.

The statue was designed to reflect Franklins history, she said; the boys straw hat hints at the towns strong involvement in the straw hat industry at the turn of the century, and the pile of books he sits on is also symbolic.

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