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A tree-removal worker was killed yesterday when a 40 pound, four foot long branch fell on him at a New Jersey nudist colony. The Tamke Tree Experts staffer had been working with a crew to remove a large tree at the Sky Farm Nudist Club when the limb fell 70 feet to land on top of him.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A federal appeals court Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit challenging a 2004 Virginia law requiring parental supervision at a nudist camp for juveniles. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the American Association for Nude Recreation can pursue its claim that the law violates its free speech rights, crimping its ability to spread its nudism philosophy. The organization claims it had to cancel last summer's camp because only 11 of the 35 youths who signed up would have been able to bring a parent. "A regulation that reduces the size of a...

LOCKE, NY--The owner of a nudist camp in southern Cayuga County has been charged with trafficking in child pornography. Joseph N. Musco Jr., 51, of 1090 Route 38, Locke, has been charged with promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, possession of an obscene sexual performance by a child, and first-degree attempted disseminating indecent material to minors, all felonies. He also is charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation Musco's residence is also the address of his Bare Bones Camp. The investigation began when a police department in New...

RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court yesterday reinstated a lawsuit challenging a Virginia law requiring parental supervision at a summer camp for juvenile nudists. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the American Association for Nude Recreation-Eastern Region could pursue its claim that the law violates its free-speech rights by crimping its ability to spread its social nudism philosophy. The organization claims it had to cancel a summer camp last summer in southeast Virginia because only 11 of the 35 youths who signed up would have been able to bring a parent as...

RICHMOND, Va. The American Civil Liberties Union urged a federal appeals court today to reinstate a lawsuit challenging a state law that scuttled plans for a nudist camp for children last summer. U-S District Judge Richard Williams ruled the lawsuit was moot because organizers of the nudist camp withdrew their permit application after the law took effect. But A-C-L-U attorney Rebecca Glenberg argued today that organizers still want to conduct the nudist camp for teens at White Tail Park this year and in future years. She said the new law makes that difficult. The law requires parental supervision at nudist...

The ACLU is now suing for the right to allow people to operate nude camps for teens. The group filed a motion in Richmand, Virginia to invalidate a state ban on such camps. The state had imposed the ban because White Tail Park had attempted to operate a camp last year for kids aged 11-18. The ACLU is attempting to make the argument that lawmakers over reached and over reacted to the camp by passing such a ban. The ACLU is also arguing that such a ban "interferes" with the "right" of a family to raise and nurture their children....

In his quest for a seat in the U.S. Senate, Rep. Mark Foley has rankled a group that is barely covered in most elections: nudists. Foley, of West Palm Beach, has hit the national TV and radio talk-show circuit in recent weeks to bash a Tampa-area summer camp not unlike most camps -- except that the boys and girls, ages 11-18, are naked. Foley, a Republican hoping to replace Sen. Bob Graham, says that letting naked teenagers play together is immoral and potentially dangerous. But ''naturists'' who say the camp exposes their children to a perfectly healthy and wholesome education...

Organizers say teens' nudist summer camp is innocent fun BOB LEWIS Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. - Activities for kids this summer at Camp White Tail: swimming, volleyball, arts and crafts, splattering a fellow camper's nude body with pudding. White Tail, a nudist park in southeastern Virginia's Southampton County, opens its first summer camp for the 11-to-18 age group Saturday - only the third such au naturel camp for juveniles in the nation, according to the American Association of Nude Recreation. Bob Roche, who manages the camp on 45 bucolic acres, said the weeklong get-together is no big deal for the...

June 18, 2003 At Nude Youth Camp, Skin Is Bare but Lust Is VerbotenBy KATE ZERNIKE UTZ, Fla., June 12 — On the third-to-last day of summer camp, the temperature has risen to 98 degrees, and even the troupers have begun to whine. "I don't want to play strip volleyball!" complained Jane Jeffries, 13, her sunburned shoulders sagging. "I want to play regular volleyball." Halie Nelson, 14, agreed, "Yeah, I'd rather get all the clothes off, and keep all the clothes off." Here at the Youth Leadership Camp run by the American Association for Nude Recreation, the dress code...

(CNSNews.com) - A congressman who tracks missing and exploited children said he found "truly disturbing" a report of a nudist camp in Florida for children as young as 11 years of age and is calling for an investigation. Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) asked Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist to investigate a nudist camp for children 11 to 18 years of age at the Lake Como Resort near Tampa. "As co-chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, I'm asking that current Florida law be reviewed to determine if this camp is indeed legal or if...

<p>IVOR - A nudist park in the woods of Southampton County is preparing to open the nation's newest nude summer camp for adolescents.</p> <p>White Tail Park in Ivor plans to welcome 30 boys and girls ages 11 to 18 tomorrow and Sunday for a weeklong camp that its owner says is traditional in every sense except that the campers will wear no clothes.</p>