| Framingham police arrest two women in online prostitution sting
Police arrested and charged two women with prostitution at a local hotel on Monday, after officers found the pair's ad for sex posted on the Web site Craigslist.org. The arrest was made by an undercover officer, said Police Lt. Paul Shastany, after police responded to an ad for sexual services on Craigslist, which offers a wide range of postings for jobs, items for sale, personals and some advertising sexual services . "We do it from time to time, based on information we receive from the community as well as what the detectives learn from these investigations," said Shastany. Ester Mirian Reis, 24, of 2 Breck St., Milton, and Ashley Lynn Walser, 23, of 263 Fuller St., Dorchester, were arrested and charged with prostitution early Monday morning, said Shastany.
Paul Domowitch: He looks like a new Manning lately
THE ONLY thing more remarkable than the Giants' unexpected presence in Super Bowl XLII has been the transformation of the quarterback who helped get them there. The Eli Manning we have watched the last 4 weeks, starting with that near-upset of the Patriots in Week 17 and continuing through three impressive road playoff wins over the Bucs, Cowboys and Packers, bears little resemblance to the one who stumbled through most of the regular season. In the eight games that preceded the first meeting with New England, Manning completed just 51.4 percent of his passes, averaged 5.78 yards per attempt, and threw just six touchdown passes and 10 interceptions. In the four games since then, his completion percentage has soared to 64.1 and his yards per attempt to 7.29, and he's thrown eight TDs and just one interception.
Hudgens beats Howard to online glory
Forget climate change and politics the three most important things on the minds of Australians are Facebook, YouTube and Summer Heights High. And users of Google Australia care more for Disney-star-turned-nude photo-luminary Vanessa Hudgens than they do about their outgoing prime minister. The internet search giant today released its end-of-year list of the most searched-for terms, revealing among other things that New South Wales cares most about charities, Victoria about beaches and Western Australia about cheap hotels. .
Officer's slaying recounted for jury
Dozens of friends and family members of California Highway Patrol Officer Andy Stevens packed a Woodland courtroom Wednesday for the opening day of the trial of the two men accused of his murder. As Stevens' wife, Michelle, looked on, a defense lawyer admitted to jurors that his client, Brendt Volarvich, 22, had fired the shot that killed Stevens on a rural county road near Woodland on Nov. 17, 2005. But attorney Fred Dawson said Volarvich, of Roseville, had suffered from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder since childhood and was strung out on methamphetamine when he shot the officer point-blank in the face. .
So, where's the beef? Not in local schools
Beef patties will stay off the lunch menus in Broome and Tioga county schools for the near future, officials said Monday. The menu change is the result of a major recall that has forced districts in the two counties to throw out cases of beef patties that were received from a Cincinnati, Ohio, distributor. Broome and Tioga districts continued to dispose of the food Monday after receiving a directive from the state. "I'm sure every district has some of this product," said Whitney Point Superintendent Carol Eaton. "It's going to be awhile before I serve it (beef patties)," said Fran Pierson, director of the food services program for the Chenango Forks School District, which had to throw out seven cases of patties. Children are going to be eating a lot of chicken, turkey and pork, she said.
Sentinel Lunchtime Blog (Valentine's Day Edition): The laws of love online
It's been a while since one of my singles blogs have been written and posted. Those of you out there who actually read these things may have wondered if I'd stopped writing because I'm no longer single. Sadly, that's not the case.Today is Valentine's Day and I, like many others, am single. If it weren't for writing this blog, I would have conveniently "forgotten" today was the day of love, flowers, candy and candlelight. However, while perusing stories from the Associated Press, I came across a relationships article detailing a new law in New Jersey requiring online dating sites to perform background checks on its users. As an alum of online dating, my interest was piqued.My first thought was, well, that's a good idea — Internet dating can be dangerous. Then I got to thinking and realized, as the article points out, background checks are pointless in the world of dating.Think about it.
All things to all men
In assimilating their love of 60s pop and psychedelia into the high-velocity fury of hardcore, Hüsker Dü scorched the earth upon which both the Pixies and Nirvana would subsequently build the foundations for the alternative nation. Besides, Mould's eviscerating songs of anger and pain eschewed gender specifics. Hüsker Dü's 1984 double album Zen Arcade is so overwhelming a treatise in existential trauma that the sexual orientation of Mould - and indeed Grant Hart, Hüsker Dü's drummer and co-songwriter, also prodigiously talented, also gay - was no more an obvious factor in that trauma than anything else. "There's a hell of a lot of confusion on those records," says Mould. "It's not like I was a fully realised gay man. At 23, living in a country that's marginalising me already because of a disease and telling me I didn't deserve to exist - that's a lot of stuff to deal with.
Ask Bearders # 159 (93)
Bearders' Answer: If you are asking about men's Test cricket, Australia have never been ‘whitewashed' (lost every Test) in a home series. They have always won at least one match in each of the home series they have lost. Q. What is the highest 50-over international individual player score, and who holds it? Lloyd Bearders' Answer: Pakistan's opening batsman, Saeed Anwar, holds that record with 194 off 146 balls against India in the Independence Cup tournament at Chepauk, Madras, on 21 May 1997. Q. Parthiv Patel and Mushfiqur Rahim are two of the shortest cricketers from the modern times and are possible candidates for the shortest Test cricketers of all time (Tich Freeman was 5'2" and there are one or two others at 5'3"). How tall were they when they made their Test debut in 2002 and 2005 respectively? Vidhya Subramaniam Bearders' Answer: Parthiv Patel, who became the youngest Test wicket-keeper at 17 years 152 days when he made his debut at Trent Bridge in 2002, gave his height as 5 feet 3 inches when he completed my questionnaire.
Blawgs: A Reader’s Guide for IT Lawyers
The catch with such blogs is that one spends time visiting them, perhaps in hope or perhaps in the expectation that something surely must be wrong with the RSS feed. Thirdly, there is a real danger that you will find that you have identified a number of relevant blogs and then read almost the same thing on all. Of course, there are some developments which nobody engaged in commenting in the IT field is going to want to ignore but usually the blogs manage to say something different about the big things. There are however slack times when all seize on the same case or report and tell you exactly the same thing blaa, blaa, blawg sheep. At its worst, this effect will compel each blogger to point to the post of another (invariably saying how wonderful it is); you follow links in the hope of enlightenment, only to find it is the same threadbare material yet again.
Developer unveils Feethams project
PLANS to turn Darlington Football Clubfs former Feethams ground into a housing development have been unveiled. Residents are being asked for their views on plans to build 139 houses and flats on the site after proposals went on display at Darlington Cricket Club yesterday. The plans are being shown to residents before they are formally submitted to Darlington Borough Council. .
10 LOUGHTON: Town council signs recreation ground lease
LOUGHTON Town Council has formally taken control of Roding Valley recreation ground ending a saga stretching back over a decade. A contract granting the council a 125-year lease was finally signed bringing to an end a string of negotiations with Epping Forest District Council dating back to the town council's creation in 1996. The agreement came as the council was due to debate a motion drafted by councillor Chris Pond threatening to withdraw all maintenance payments for the ground in protest at the district council's string of delays over the lease. .
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