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...Beach police to bust online sexual predators. Shaq became a U.S. deputy marshal this spring and is training to be a reserve police officer. Shaq says he will probably give his day job three more years but will then join the force full time: "I'm definitely running for sheriff in Broward or Orange County, Florida." Game on, bad guys...
...escalates when some other toughs, led by one-eyed Fogerty (Ed Harris), drop in, declaring that Tom is one Joey Cusack, notorious gunslinger in a Philadelphia mob, and insisting that he go back East with them to clear up some unfinished business. Despite Tom's earnest protests, the local sheriff and even Edie wonder whether he really is the man they've respected and loved for 20 years...
...results of that probe, which culminated in a controversial Internet sting operation, landed on Spokane's collective doorstep on May 5 like a paper bomb. "For a quarter-century," the report began, "the man who is now Spokane's mayor has used positions of public trust--as a sheriff's deputy, Boy Scout leader and powerful politician--to develop sexual relationships with boys and young men." The FBI last week opened an inquiry into whether the mayor should be investigated for corruption. West has told the paper he does not believe he has abused the powers of his office...
...swim naked with him. Most disturbing were the accusations leveled by two men--one in jail, the other on parole--who say they were molested by West in the late 1970s, when they were between the ages of 7 and 11 and he was a deputy sheriff and a Cub Scout leader. West "categorically" denied their allegations. The statute of limitations for molestation charges has expired. But the Republican mayor who built his career in part supporting legislation hostile to gay rights, including a failed bill to bar gays and lesbians from jobs at schools and day-care centers...
...universities is as old as the Louisiana Purchase. “Thomas Jefferson complained about it when he was president of the University of Virginia,” Wechsler says. At Harvard, the alcoholic ethos is equally ancient. In the nineteenth century, commencement ceremonies were presided over by a sheriff, several police officers, and two judges in order to control the students’ raucous “gambling, drinking, swearing, and fighting,” Wechsler writes in his book Dying To Drink...