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TOWSON, Md. -- A group of men is trying to reduce the number of people sexually assaulted in the U.S. every year by walking in women's shoes -- literally -- to bring attention to the problem. Someone in the United States is sexually assaulted every two minutes, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. Some of the men on the Towson campus literally walked a mile in women's shoes to bring awareness to the issue during Sexual Assault Prevention Month. Mostly men showed up at Potomac Patio on the Towson campus on Wednesday to try on and then...

MANCHESTER – A Boston-based federal judge wore a black cocktail dress, fish-net stockings and high heels when police arrested him for drunk driving after he rear-ended a pickup truck last week, sources said U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Somma, 63, struck a plea deal with the city Wednesday in which he pleaded no contest to a first-offense misdemeanor driving while intoxicated charge in Manchester District Court. In exchange, the judge agreed to pay $600 in fines and penalties and a 12-month license suspension, which can be reduced to six months if he proves he successfully completed a driver education and...

So, there we were, the husband (we?ll call him Simon, for that is his name) and I, getting dolled up for date night. There was the usual tussle for the mirror, and that?s when I spotted it: my purple Marc Jacobs belt holding up his skinny combats. I would have been miffed, but the truth is, it looked hot. Sort of Justin Timberlake meets the Scissor Sisters. His retort when I feigned annoyance? I was always borrowing his clothes, so it was his turn to even the score. As it turns out, we were teetering at the top of a...

After years of stifling conservatism, men face a dizzying array of clothing options ranging from cutting-edge sportswear to unisex collections that blur the distinctions between the genders. French designer Jean Paul Gaultier is largely to thank for these advances. He was the first to show men in skirts and continues to promote an androgynous approach to dressing with his Gaultier To The Power of Two collection, inspired by the perfume of the same name. Male and female models swaggered out in platform heels in his spring-summer 2007 show Saturday, which drew inspiration from 1970s glam rockers such as David Bowie....

John Brown University says students must sign a community covenant, meant to encourage Christian living. The college says they knew about Michael Guinn`s sexual orientation when they accepted him to the school. The school says that`s not why he was dismissed. Instead, they say he didn`t follow a part of the covenant that says he won`t dress in drag. The school says another student alerted them of a website where Guinn`s posing in pictures dressed in drag. Like John Brown University, there are seven other private schools in the state that can draw up their own rules. At Harding University...

As a woman, New Yorker Norah Vincent was used to being stared at by men she passed in her Village neighborhood. It's a way men "assert their dominance," she says. But she often wondered what was behind those stares. So she conducted an experiment. Like John Howard Griffin, who disguised himself as an African-American in the South of 1959 for "Black Like Me," and Gregory Peck playing a writer posing as a Jew to investigate anti-Semitism in the Oscar-winning "Gentleman's Agreement," Vincent went undercover. With makeup, workouts, wardrobe and a voice coach, she became a man and plunged into a...

A Bartlesville man was arrested Friday after reportedly appearing in front of a local restaurant wearing a white mini skirt and little else. The suspect, Hurschel Dale Allen, faces charges of indecent exposure as a result of the incident. Allen, 32, was also scheduled for a jury trial Monday on a charge of outraging public decency stemming from a similar arrest in 2004. In the newest incident, officers were dispatched to a local steak house at approximately 4:16 Friday in reference to a man exposing himself, police reports indicate. When officers arrived, they were flagged down by two witnesses who...

AUSTIN - His family made a fortune on men's work clothing. But it's Sam Walls' apparent fondness for women's apparel that is dividing the Johnson County Republican Party. Walls, 64, is in the April 13 GOP primary runoff against Burleson real estate broker Rob Orr for the House District 58 seat. As a leading businessman, former Republican Party chairman and benefactor of Harris Methodist Walls Regional Hospital, Walls seemed the odds-on favorite to win. The victor is likely to succeed Arlene Wohlgemuth in the Texas Legislature. But then pictures of Walls in women's clothing -- several of which were provided...

MAKKAH, 27 January 2004 — Al-Shemaisi Passport Department on the Jeddah-Makkah Highway has detained 94 men in women’s clothes who were trying to enter Makkah without Haj permits, Al-Madinah daily reported. The violators were taken to the expatriate administration in Makkah. Some Saudi drivers were also held for questioning. In a similar development, police and Passport Department officials arrested 100 overstayers planning to perform Haj. They will be kept in detention while police investigate the Saudi building owner who provided them shelter. The overstayers did not leave after performing Umrah and were waiting to perform Haj. Police will impose a...