Muhammad W. Tariq, age 51 of 3572 Front Street, Slidell, LA, was issued a summons for Unlawful sale of an alcoholic beverage to persons under 21 years of age
James M. Rist, age 45 of 4735 Oak Street, Slidell, LA, was arrested for Failure to Appear in Slidell City Court
Ricky P. Boudoin, age 55 of 218 Cypress Lakes Circle, Slidell, LA, was arrested on two counts of Failure to Appear in Slidell City Court
Theresa E. King, age 36 of 111 Lesley Lane, Pearl River, LA, was issued a summons for Unlawful sale of an alcoholic beverage to persons under 21 years of age
Jerome C. Stoudermire, age 61 of 3174 City Drive, Slidell, LA, was arrested for Simple Arson
Yvonne M. Shavers, age 29 of no known address, was arrested for Prostitution and Open Container
Shannon Oubre, age 40 of no known address, was arrested for Prostitution and Open Container

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Orin Grant, pastor, said the idea started when he was approached by a station executive.“One of the executives of WLNO 1060-AM had been trying to get me to partner with them in ministry for quite a while, for the last several years,” Grant said. “We had kind of been deliberating, and on the week of April 26, it finally came to fruition.”
Grant said the mission of the show will be to spread the gospel of Christ.
“Our mission at REAL Ministries is to reach the world for Christ,” he said. “So, we’re trying to get out the word of Christ through radio and other media outlets to reach people.”
He added that the broadcast will take a nontraditional route.
“REAL Ministry is reaching real people in real times and we’re going to go beyond just the traditional way of reaching people, although radio can be seen that way,” Grant said. “We want to challenge traditional mindsets. We want to be able to talk to homosexuals, drug addicts, prostitutes and hustlers.”

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Possession of Drugs and Gun: 8:35pm, 1900 block of Ursuline St. The suspect was pulled over for a traffic stop. The officer arrested the driver, Pernell Russel, 19, for possession of illegal narcotics and a handgun.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Stabbing: 12:42am, Second and Dryades. The perp, known as “Renata,” stabbed the 25-year-old female victim in the head, face and arm with a broken glass. The victim was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Prostitute Stabbed: 6:51am, 10900 block of Chef Menteur Hwy. The 29-year-old female victim met with a “Spanish” male and agreed to a sexual transaction for $100. After the sexual act, the perp refused to pay her. They got into a physical altercation, when the man stabbed her in the abdomen. The victim was treated at the hospital.

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Authorities say a 24-year-old man is in guarded condition after a Friday night stabbing at a Fat City apartment complex. The victim was stabbed multiple times in the chest and stomach, according to a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office report. Investigators arrested the victim’s neighbor in connection with the incident.
The stabbing occurred about 11 p.m. at an apartment at 4201 Hessmer Avenue, Metairie, said Glen T. Boyd, spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office. The unidentified victim got into a fight with his neighbor Denis Rivera, 27, he said.
Investigators aren’t sure what the fight was about, but the pair eventually separated and went to their own apartments after the tussle. A few minutes later, Rivera appeared at the victim’s door and asked for his assistance in translating a deal with a prostitute downstairs, the arrest report said.

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But the longer I lived in New Orleans, the less I enjoyed Bourbon Street. Even with its constantly-changing cast of characters, the siren call of Bourbon Street no longer sang out to me and so I started sending my guests down by themselves. By the time I moved away, it had been years since I had sauntered down New Orleans’ most famous street.
So it goes with the Montana Historical Society — not that it’s a fair comparison between the Historical Society’s top-notch artifacts and the prostitutes and booze of Bourbon Street. But let’s just say that I spent a lot of time at the Historical Society when I first moved here. I actually worked in the building, but I also visited regularly because each of my out-of-state guests demanded to go to the Historical Society and learn all they could about Montana.

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Serve the greater good. Work and work hard. Play to win, even if you give it away after you win it. To all these points made in the letter, Bill has adhered. So much so that when his father died in 1997, Bill donated his entire bequest into the Goldring Family Foundation, while continuing to work just as before in the family’s liquor distribution business. In these two actions he upheld the very core of the letter’s principals.
Goldring’s grandfather founded the family business in 1898. A small company, his father worked day and night to build it up. When Goldring became old enough to try his hand, his father had reservations. At the time, selling alcohol had a bad reputation. Gambling, prostitution and liquor were all mixed together as S-I-N. His father also had doubts about the future viability of the wholesale business. “I told him, well, I’ll take my chances,” Goldring recalls. The rest is history.

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… Hopefully all legal votes,” John Magill said.(Corruption) was pretty common here, it was pretty common in many communities.”
There is even the French blueprint for developing the vast Louisiana territory, written in 1698 by Pierre Lemoyne D’Iberville.
“He talks about lots of the different natural resources that are here, and how France might exploit them both economically and militarily,” Lawrence, the programs director, said.
There is regalia from Mardi Gras, including designs for early parades with few floats, plus two chairs from the steamboat J.M. White.
“You can see at that period of time the opulence and the grandeur of that period,” Jack Pruitt said. “These would be on what we refer to as the floating palaces along the Mississippi.”
There is even a blue book from Storyville in 1900, a directory of the city’s houses of prostitution.

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Shawn Sahm, Doug’s son, fills in for his dad on guitar and frontman duties, and does both with jacked-up, manic energy and a face-splitting grin. (The younger Sahm has been playing with members of the Tornados since age 13; a Texas saloon, he mentioned, was his day-care center as a younger kid.)
In his hands, Fender and the senior Sahm were a constant presence during the set.
“I can hear Freddy saying, OK, vato, you better represent me properly,” Sahm said before kicking off a faithful version of the late Fender’s country-pop hit “Before The Next Teardrop Falls.”
The set also included Fender’s signature swamp pop tune “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” and the conjunto-tinged roots-rock classics the Tornados are best known for, including “Mendocino,” “Who Were You Thinkin’ Of,” and “Adios Mexico,” featuring wild Chuck Berry licks from Sahm. Myers emerged from behind the keys to pick up an accordion and duet with Jimenez for “Velma from Selma,” (after first stepping up to tell a joke about a prostitute — Velma — who nearly lost her hat in a windstorm.)

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… This has been kind of a dream,” Wicker said in describing those involved in the project from well-known wives to young women whose husbands have served just a few years in a “start up church” somewhere. “It really was my heart that we hear from all of these women.”
KASSIAN Mary Kassian, popular speaker and award winning author of In my Father’s House: Finding Your Heart’s True Home, will speak on “The Hidden Person of the Heart”—after Wicker recognizes two women whom she said have had “an amazing influence” on her life as a pastor’s wife.
By honoring those who have impacted her, Wicker said she hopes to honor all women at the luncheon and inspire other ladies to thank those who have impacted them.
Theme-inspired red and pink heart decor will coordinate with matching burgundy and red jute bags exported from India and sewn by women who previously were forced into prostitution by sex trafficking and poverty. 

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Ophelia” is a beautiful and haunting story about a woman-turned-prostitute who seeks to reclaim her identity and escape an objectifying lifestyle. A photographer,

Women must shut off part of who they really are in order to perform for and attract men—they must embody the feminine other, the feminine mystique that both Simone de Beauvior and Betty Friedan shouted so much about. This concept is only heightened in the brothel, where a woman’s sole purpose is to please the male customer. 
However, it’s through the power of photography that Ophelia recaptures that identity. By realizing the power of a lens, by looking at herself through the unfaltering eye of the camera, she begins to form her identity in something besides her relationship to men. By learning photography and by purchasing her own camera, she is able to release herself from the bind of lost identity that prostitution has placed on her.

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