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A former North Dakota State Senator pleaded guilty today to traveling to Prague, Czech Republic, to have commercial sex with minor boys. According to court documents and facts established in public proceedings, Ray Holmberg, 80, of Grand Forks, took approximately 14 trips to Prague between 2011 and 2021 to engage in commercial sex acts with minor boys. During some of these trips, Holmberg used the alias “Sean Evans” while staying at a brothel where young boys provided commercial sexual services. Holmberg also went to a public park in front of the main train station in Prague to procure sex from...

No frying tonight after 'Obama' eatery closes Shanghai Daily, October 13, 2011 A takeaway restaurant called the "Obama Fried Chicken," complete with a cartoon of a smiling US President Barack Obama as its logo, has been shut by its owners, three college students in Beijing. Signage from the 'Obama OFC' restaurant shot on Oct 5. [Internet photo] Signage from the "Obama OFC" restaurant shot on Oct 5. [Internet photo] The students said they temporarily closed the eatery yesterday because of the flood of requests for interviews from domestic and foreign reporters. This had "disturbed their business as well as their...