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The federal government has gotten a new bill in its failed attempt to seize more than $1 million from a California woman who said the money was her life savings earned over years as an exotic dancer... Entire story at: http://www.omaha.com/article/20140129/NEWS/140128484/1707

WASHINGTON,- An exotic dancer alleges in a lawsuit she and her fellow dancers should be paid wages in addition to tips at their Washington strip club. Quansa Thompson said she could earn as much as $1,200 a night stripping at The House in Washington, but those funds came primarily from tips as the strip club's operators only paid dancers $20 each for showing up for work, The Washington Post said Friday. Thompson, 29, is suing her former employer under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. She alleges under the federal law, operators of The House are required to...

A 46-year-old exotic dancer from Moorhead, Minn., has been charged with extorting $7,000 from a married pastor by threatening to expose their money-for-sex relationship to his wife and church leadership. Bunny Annette Byington was charged last week in Clay County District Court and released on $500 bail on Thursday. Once the pastor told Byington that he could come up with no more hush money, Byington followed through on her threat and told the pastor's wife, a senior pastor and assistant to the bishop about the affair, according to the charges. She also sent the bishop a photo of the pastor...

LOS ANGELES – An exotic dancer was set on fire outside the club where she worked early Thursday, burning more than 60 percent of her body, police said. They were searching for two suspects...

Raleigh — The man who once pursued rape, sexual assault and kidnapping charges against three former Duke lacrosse players who were later declared innocent by North Carolina's attorney general says he will resign. (Watch Mike Nifong's announcement.) "My community has suffered enough," a tearful Mike Nifong said Friday during his testimony at his State Bar ethics trial to the surprise of the families and defense attorneys of the cleared lacrosse players, as well as others in the courtroom. "Throughout the years I have served as a prosecutor I have always tried to do the right thing," a tearful Mike Nifong...

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As an exotic dancer at Hott 22 in Union, Linda Kay's persona was that of a dark and ghoulish Goth girl. In real life, police say, her interest in the macabre was more than just an act. Officers responding to a report of a suicidal individual at Kay's South Plainfield home discovered a severed hand in a glass mason jar of formaldehyde and six skulls -- all human, according to the Middlesex County medical examiner. Kay, 31, was arrested and charged with improper disposition of human remains. She has so far refused to tell police where or how she obtained...

A former junior banker at Merrill Lynch yesterday confessed to of a brazen insider-trading scheme that also enlisted an exotic dancer, a retired Croatian seamstress, a New Jersey mailman and moles inside a BusinessWeek print shop..........the Trans-Atlantic stock fraud scam that racked up $6.7 million in ill-gotten gains....... Trading on tips from the young banker on six big mergers netted $6.4 million of the illicit profits, making it by far the most lucrative scheme concocted by the insider-trading ring's masterminds, Eugene Plotkin, 27, and David Pajcin, 29. The pair, who met while they both worked at Goldman Sachs, recruited Shpigelman...

A jury began deliberating yesterday on whether an exotic dancer's alleged moves on a boyfriend's 13-year-old son are criminal. Jenna Wright, 24, of Quincy, is charged with indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and showing obscene material to a minor. Milford Police allege she danced provocatively up against the boy and showed him illicit photos of herself stored on her cell phone. Now 14, the boy testified yesterday in Worcester District Court he was at his father's Milford home last Dec. 19 during a holiday party. He went to play with a remote control car outside, where...

A former exotic dancer and her ex-boyfriend who were mauled by a Bengal tiger nearly nine years ago have been awarded more than $2.5-million from African Lion Safari. Madam Justice Jean MacFarland yesterday rejected claims that David Balac, 31, and Jennifer-Anne Cowles, 28, ignored posted signs at the game park warning visitors not to feed the animals and to keep their car windows rolled up. Judge MacFarland found the Rockton, Ont., park strictly liable and awarded Mr. Balac $1.7-million and Ms. Cowles $813,000. "There is no question . . . that tigers are dangerous, unpredictable, wild predators. Persons who display...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - A 13-year-old boy was charged with abducting an exotic dancer when she showed up for an appointment at what turned out to be a vacant house with no electricity, police said Monday. When the woman entered the house at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 16, she realized her client was a juvenile, police spokeswoman Rene Ball said. The boy told her the contract was for his older brother, but no one else showed up. The woman tried to leave, and the boy pointed a shotgun at her and ordered her to dance for him, Ball said. She...

13-year-old is charged in abduction of exotic dancer By MATTHEW JONE, The Virginian-Pilot © November 23, 2004 VIRGINIA BEACH — A 13-year-old boy has been charged with abducting an exotic dancer he lured to his home, police said Monday. Another suspect is being sought. The incident happened Nov. 16, when a woman contracted as an exotic dancer arrived for a 6:30 p.m. appointment at a home in the 700 block of S. Rosemont Road, said police spokeswoman Rene Ball. A person met her at the front door and told her to meet him at the back door. When the dancer...