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Host of "The Dave Herman Rock And Roll Morning Show" from 1972 to 1998 charged with attempting to meet 7-year-old girl in Virgin Islands for sex Dave Herman, who spun tunes for nearly 30 years on New York classic rock station WNEW, was charged Thursday with traveling to the Virgin Islands to have sex with a 7-year-old girl. Herman, 77, of Airmont, N.Y., who also owns a home on St. Croix, was arrested by federal agents at the airport in St. Croix, where he expected to meet the girl, authorities said. He is scheduled to appear in federal court in...

Dave Herman, who spun tunes for nearly 30 years on New York classic rock station WNEW, was charged Thursday with traveling to the Virgin Islands to have sex with a 7-year-old girl. Hermann, 77, of Airmont, N.Y., who also owns a home on St. Croix, was arrested by federal agents at the airport in St. Croix, where he expected to meet the girl, authorities said. He is scheduled to appear in federal court in St. Croix on Friday. Herman allegedly started chatting on Yahoo! last November with an undercover officer from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, whom he believed was...

Legendary deejay Scott Muni, who most recently hosted The Scott Muni Show on classic rock station WAXQ-FM, died at the age of 74. A spokesperson said the cause of death was unknown. Mr. Muni, known as “Scottso” and “The Professor,” suffered a stroke earlier this year and was no longer coming into the station to host his show, which persisted with help from guest hosts like rocker David Lee Roth and New Jersey Gov. John McGreevey. Mr. Muni was born in Wichita, Kan., and raised in New Orleans. He began his broadcast career on Radio Guam, when he served...

Virginia has sent many emissaries into the world, some of them great, but the record is not perfect. This week the Old Dominion is shamed that two of its own were involved in a sex scandal in New York's famed St. Patrick's Cathedral. Being of naturally sunny disposition, we are slightly cheered that the event in question did not include altar boys, priests, bishops, deacons, or a horny choir mistress. The act was consensual, between a man and woman, and somewhat hidden (taking place in the vestibule). Indeed, one school of thought has it that compared to other sex scandals...

[EXCERPTS]Shock Jocks Fired After St. Pat's Sex Stunt NEW YORK, 11:03 a.m. EDT August 23, 2002 - Opie and Anthony are over and out. The New York-based shock jocks, under fire from angry Catholic groups for broadcasting a live account of a couple allegedly having sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral, had their nationally syndicated show canceled Thursday. "Based on recent events, the Opie and Anthony Show has been canceled, and will be replaced by other programming beginning Friday," Waced by programming to be determined separately by each station. He didn't know what WNEW would air in its time slot, and...

<p>NEW YORK -- A Virginia couple accused of having sex inside St. Patrick's Cathedral to earn prizes from a pair of radio shock jocks was heckled Wednesday as they left a Manhattan courthouse.</p> <p>"God is mad at you!" shouted one angry man as the pair walked silently past. "You should be ashamed of yourselves!"</p> <p>Brian Florence, 37, of Quantico, Va., and Loretta Lynn Harper, 35, of Alexandria, Va., were due back in court Oct. 2 to face charges of public lewdness.</p>

<p>Opie (left) and Anthony had their live show pulled yesterday after their St. Pat's sexcapade led to three arrests and outrage.</p> <p>August 20, 2002 -- "Opie and Anthony's" live radio show was yanked off the air yesterday as WNEW-FM's owner fretted over the shock jocks' promotion of a sex stunt in St. Patrick's Cathedral.</p>