The women also came armed with scores of petitions that included signatures from the police chief, public safety director and county prosecutor, all factors in the board’s 2-1 vote not to renew the bar’s permit.
“I’m very surprised. I’ve been a good citizen,” said Zeferino Alvarez, El Bohemio’s owner.
Alvarez says he’s invested in several improvements, fixed up the inside, added security lights cameras and paved the parking lot.
“I don’t think they want anything around. Probably another ice cream place,” he said.
While the women celebrated, bar employees made it known they’re now out of work.
One of them approached Boyce and told him that he had lost his job, along with his co-workers.
“You know, I could have brought in pictures of the lap dancing,” said Boyce.
The two left undeterred and ready to take on their next fight: prostitutes.
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Saturday, the day after the water company sale is final, wrecking crews will demolish seven homes. In the next 16 months, the city wants to remove 2,000 abandoned homes.
That is more than it’s removed in the last three and a half years combined. Abandoned, unsightly, unhealthy abandoned homes are considered one of the biggest scourges of inner city neighborhoods.
They are havens for vagrants, drug dealing, prostitution and other crimes. They drive down property values and the quality of life. City officials will begin tearing down what they call the worst of the worst, homes that are causing neighbors the most problems.
Reginald Walton Department of Metropolitan Development explained, “They have become infamous for suspicious activity. The homes that have calls for loitering, prostitution, drug activity, suspicious activity those addresses that have several police runs.”
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Suburban Couple Provides Hope and Change in a Neighborhood of Crime and Poverty
Author and fellow volunteer writes new book showcasing incredible success story
Zionsville, IN (PRWEB) August 11, 2011
Within cities that strive there are always areas that suffer. In The Neighborhood – Tiptoeing into Poverty and Finding Hope (published by AuthorHouse) Leslie Alig Collins tells the story of how a small group of people can help improve an entire community.
The Neighborhood tells the true story of Jim and Debbie Strietelmeier, a young couple with two small children, who believe in suffering on purpose in order to help others. To do so, they move into the crime-riddled neighborhood of Tenth and Rural in Indianapolis, Indiana, with the goal of bringing hope and a haven to a place where pimps, drug dealers and gangs rule the streets.
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INDIANAPOLIS – NCAA President Mark Emmert says the death penalty will not be taken off the table for the most egregious rule-breakers. He also understands using it could have serious implications at schools that have done nothing wrong. The task for the new, tougher NCAA will be trying to figure out how to find a punishment that fits the crime without creating too much collateral damage. By Michael Marot. Sent.
FBC–MIAMI-NCAA INVESTIGATION
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Center Tyler Horn and running back Mike James are the first Miami players to meet reporters since convicted Ponzi-scheme architect and former university booster Nevin Shapiro claimed that he provided money, prostitutes, cars and gifts to some current and former Hurricanes. They insist they are trying to focus on the coming season and not possible sanctions. By Tim Reynolds. Sent.
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Code officers crack down on trouble motels
Updated: Wednesday, 17 Aug 2011, 8:54 PM EDTPublished : Wednesday, 17 Aug 2011, 8:54 PM EDT
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The Dollar Inn sits just off of Crawfordsville Road, an ideal location down the street from Interstate 465 and a couple of miles from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. But a high number of police calls – more than 800 in the last two years – has it in the spotlight for the wrong reasons.
Thursday, that location and two other Dollar Inns, one on North Shadeland Avenue, the other on West Washington Street, were under the microscope, as a team of Indianapolis Code Enforcement inspectors checked for code violations – and troublemakers.
The excessive police calls have involved common crimes involving prostitution and drugs, along with arrest warrant service.
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Against Gay Marriage, But All For Gay Prostitutes!
Against Gay Marriage, But All For Gay Prostitutes! From the HuffPo, yet another guy against gay rights turns out to be a closeted gay against gay rights:
An Indiana Republican state lawmaker is under scrutiny after reportedly arranging to meet a young man online and allegedly exposing himself when the pair subsequently met in person, according to the Indianapolis Star.
The Indianapolis Star reported that emails suggest Republican Rep. Phillip Hinkle arranged to pay Kameryn Gibson up to $140 for “for a really good time.” The paper published emails between Hinkle and Gibson detailing a plan for them to meet at a downtown Indianapolis hotel. The Star reported Hinkle didn’t contest the emails but said he was “aware of a shakedown taking place.”
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Gibson told the paper that when he and Hinkle were talking in a hotel room, he got cold feet after Hinkle mentioned he was a lawmaker. He said he tried to leave but Hinkle resisted, grabbing his rear end and exposing himself. He said no sexual activity took place and that he was eventually able to leave with the help of his sister, who came to get him after he called her from the bathroom.
Hinkle, who is married and represents sections of Pike and Wayne townships, voted this year in favor of a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as being only between one man and one woman.
Nobody has sought charges against Hinkle or Gibson and the Marion County Prosecutor’s office has no immediate plans to seek charges, said Brienne Delaney, communications director for the prosecutor’s office. Indiana law broadly defines prostitution as any sexual contact or planned sexual contact in exchange for any amount of money or personal property.
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LOS ANGELES — Police investigating the man accused of the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings of prostitutes and other women in Los Angeles are expanding their review of cold cases to see if he is connected to them, a police official said Tuesday.
Cmdr. Andrew Smith told The Associated Press that detectives are looking at as many as 250 unresolved files dating back to the late 1970s and early 1980s to see whether there are any links to Lonnie Franklin Jr.
“We just want to make sure nothing fell through the cracks,” Smith said.
Franklin has pleaded not guilty to 10 murders and one count of attempted murder. Most of the victims linked to the “Grim Sleeper” were found in alleyways within a few miles of Franklin’s home. They were killed after some kind of sexual contact.
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LOS ANGELES — Police investigating the man accused of the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings of prostitutes and other women in Los Angeles are expanding their review of cold cases to see if he is connected to them, a police official said Tuesday.
Cmdr. Andrew Smith told The Associated Press that detectives are looking at as many as 250 unresolved files dating back to the late 1970s and early 1980s to see whether there are any links to Lonnie Franklin Jr.
“We just want to make sure nothing fell through the cracks,” Smith said.
Franklin has pleaded not guilty to 10 murders and one count of attempted murder. Most of the victims linked to the “Grim Sleeper” were found in alleyways within a few miles of Franklin’s home. They were killed after some kind of sexual contact.
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Prosecutors said today they will seek the death penalty against a man accused of the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings of prostitutes and other women who were shot, strangled or both over several decades in Los Angeles.
The announcement came as capital punishment is coming under increasing fire in California for lengthy delays in executions and for the expenses involved in winning cases, fighting appeals and keeping inmates on death row.
Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman told a court her office will ask a jury for the state’s harshest sentence if 58-year-old Lonnie Franklin Jr. is convicted.
Franklin has pleaded not guilty to the murders of 10 women and one count of attempted murder.
Most of the victims linked to the “Grim Sleeper” were found in alleyways within a few miles (kilometers) of Franklin’s home south of downtown Los Angeles. Those victims were killed after some kind of sexual contact.
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