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NAPLES - A southwest Florida man is accused of attacking a nurse and stripping off his clothes before flooding a hospital's emergency rooms. Louis Sepesi, 53, became agitated while in a waiting room at the North Collier Hospital in Naples, Florida, on Saturday, according to the Collier County Sheriff's Office. He barged into the emergency room, pushed a patient and then pushed a nurse in the head. After the hospital staff got him into a room in an effort to keep him from disturbing other patients, he took off his clothes and pulled a high-pressure water pipe from the wall,...

The move will see the European Commission blocking Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada and Singapore from accessing parts of the European Union's financial market, according to the Financial Times. The five countries are deemed as no longer regulating credit rating agencies as rigorously as the bloc — thereby removing them from a position which made it possible for European banks to rely on those ratings, reported the Financial Times, The European Commission will be blocking five countries from accessing parts of the European Union's financial markets — in a move that could hit the United Kingdom after it leaves the bloc,...

SALISBURY, MA -- Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, is making one of her first Massachusetts appearances next month since claiming she was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about an affair with President Donald Trump. The adult film actress will appear at Kittens Gentlemen's Club in Salisbury on September 7 and 8. Daniels announced the appearance in a post on Twitter. "We just had Bridget the Midget there so when we took her sign down, we put her's (Daniels) up," club owner Kevin Moury told the Eagle-Tribune, which first reported this story. "We're looking forward to it." While the...

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WDTN) -- Adult film star Stormy Daniels will make an appearance in the Miami Valley this weekend. Daniels is performing at Diamonds Caberet in Washington Township Friday and Saturday. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is planning extra security for her appearance, releasing the following statement: “"The extra deputies are there in case the crowd becomes large and there are issues. We will also work with the Washington Township Fire Department if they have any issues or concerns with occupancy." Daniels is a porn star who claims she had an affair with President Donald Trump in 2006. She...

Stormy Daniels has been adamant that money is not what motivated her to tell her story. That may be so, but she certainly finds herself able to make a lot more of it these days. Since allegations of a 2006 affair with Donald Trump and a $130,000 hush payment made by Trump’s lawyer surfaced in January, Daniels has become a household name—with the earning power to prove it. “Stormy’s essentially become the most famous porn star of all time,” says Alec Helmy, publisher of adult industry news outlet XBIZ. “And with that level of fame comes a windfall of opportunity.”...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Days after a Republican was elected mayor of Annapolis, City Council members say they will revisit legislation that would strip the mayor’s office of much of its power. Democratic Alderman Ross Arnett of Ward 8 tells The Capital he will introduce a charter amendment to move Annapolis to a council-manager style of government. The city manager would report directly to the City Council, not the mayor.

Annapolis Alderman Ross Arnett insists the City Council's decision to take another look at making the mayor's job a more ceremonial role has nothing to do with party politics. But if the Democrat-majority council acts to remove the mayor's power, the timing will coincide with the election of Annapolis' first Republican mayor in nearly two decades, Mike Pantelides, who defeated the incumbent Democrat, Mayor Josh Cohen, last week.

City mulls stripping workers' health careBy Linda Metz, Staff writer 11/2/2010 3:33 AM Washington city employees eventually could find themselves shopping for their own health care plan. At council's agenda meeting Monday morning, Councilman Joe Manning introduced the concept of the city not offering health care benefits to its employees by taking advantage of The Affordable Care Act that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in March. "If we, as an employer, do not provide health care, our employees would be eligible for federal government subsidies" to purchase their own, Manning said. He also...

LONDON (AFP) - Eight British soldiers have been forced to return home from Norway after they reportedly stripped naked and urinated on each other in a bar during an Arctic training exercise, the defence ministry confirmed Tuesday. "It's being taken extremely seriously," a spokesman for the defence ministry in London said. He continued: "We can confirm that eight soldiers from 59 Commando Regiment Royal Engineers were arrested by the Norwegian police following inappropriate behaviour. "All eight soldiers have been released, having paid a fine. The soldiers were in Norway on exercises and have now returned to the UK. "The unit...

Author’s note: Pseudonyms are used in today’s column. Other minor facts are altered to protect the identity of former students. Last night I had a dream that I was sitting in a diner not far from the beach. A girl with a suntan walked into the diner and sat down next to me. She had beautiful green eyes, sun-bleached hair and the face of a cover girl. We knew each other through a mutual friend who teaches in the public schools. When I asked her how she was she said that she was having trouble finding her place in the...

Christians strip to build a new Eden Tony Allen-Mills, New York IN THE beginning was the word of God and God never said anything about brassieres or boxer shorts. Thus was born Natura, America’s first Christian nudist camp. After two years of biblical debate over Adam and Eve and their fig leaves and whether or not nudity is sinful, a 67-year-old Quaker grandfather is preparing to open a modern-day Garden of Eden 40 miles north of Tampa, Florida. Bill Martin’s ambitious plan for a 200-acre Christian- oriented Family Naturist Village has survived legal challenges, doctrinal disputes and a plague of...

Over the last few weeks, Afghanistan has been in the news again--unfortunately, for all the wrong reasons. The media pack has made a brief reappearance in Afghanistan to report on carefully staged "spontaneous" riots, which briefly erupted around the country, ostensibly in protest over a report in Newsweek (later retracted) about desecration of Koran. Sadly, in the rush of commentary about Afghanistan's slide into anarchy and America's deteriorating position in Kabul, most of the international media again missed or downplayed many other stories, some of them arguably far more consequential than an antigovernment rampage whipped up by opponents of President...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Nevada bill that would impose a 10 percent tax on strip club dancing will be struck down in court if lawmakers pass it, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer said on Wednesday. "You can not have a special tax aimed at First Amendment activity based on content," said Allen Lichtenstein, general counsel of the ACLU of Nevada.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Sometimes going undercover in Texas means no cover at all. Houston police, long thwarted in their campaign against prostitution by an internal policy that barred officers from removing their clothes, have reaped results by shedding that unwritten rule. The change in tactics that allows vice squad officers to undress in pursuit of evidence is part of a crackdown on suspected brothels that advertise themselves as day spas, lingerie modeling studios, massage parlors and "stress relief clinics." Two investigations using the new rules have resulted in organized crime charges against six business proprietors and dozens of misdemeanor prostitution...

<p>AN uninhibited aide to Sen. Hillary Clinton was thrown out of the Ritz-Carlton in Battery Park City the other night after stripping down to her bra in the hotel bar.</p> <p>Kara Hughes, Clinton's director of economic development, was having drinks at the hotel's 14th-floor Rise bar Friday at about 8 p.m. She went outside to the open-air patio where, our witness reports, a guy she was chatting with suddenly doffed his dress shirt.</p>