Earlier research had shown that Mujer Segura was effective in a study of 600 female sex workers in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, but questions lingered about comparative affordability. The financial burden of the worldwide HIV epidemic is huge: More than $10 billion annually. In Mexico alone, HIV-related costs exceed $270 million each year, 88 percent [...]
The Securities and Exchange Commission today (June 29) agreed to pay $775,000 to San Diego attorney Gary Aguirre. The sum represents four years and ten months of his salary since the agency fired him in 2005, plus his attorney fees. The story of the SEC’s blatant prostitution in the Aguirre case has been told on [...]
South Africa should be proud of themselves for their performance. Given the quality of the opposition they faced, losing only one game and beating a star studded French team was an overachievement. On paper they were probably one of the three weakest teams in the World Cup and played without their most dangerous player (Benni [...]
The show will include 40 oil paintings from the Sowinski estate, priced at the same prices that comparable works sold for during the well-known artist’s lifetime. Works range from $600 for 8 x 10s up to $4,500 for a 32 x 40 work.“These are masterworks—pieces done late in his life that reflect his maturity…The [...]
SAN DIEGO – A couple of hundred bikini-clad women paraded through the streets of San Diego’s Gaslamp District Sunday afternoon in an attempt to break a world record.Organizers of the San Diego Bikini Walk hoped to attract at least 325 bikini-wearing participants to break the current record for the largest bikini walk, which [...]
In 2008 Lucy became homeless. Friends she was crashing with at the time needed to make room for their children, and there was no more space available.For six months she stayed in an abandoned house. Otherwise, she’s made do in various places. She’s reticent to reveal where else she currently sleeps, but she says it’s [...]
14 arrested in El Cajon prostitution stingFriday, June 25, 2010 at 1:22 p.m.EL CAJONFourteen men were arrested Thursday night during a six-hour undercover prostitution operation in El Cajon.Five female officers, four from the El Cajon Police Department and one from the county Sheriff’s Department, posed as decoys during the operation, which started around 7 p.m., [...]
What happened in the City Hall case? Former Councilmen Ralph Inzunza and Michael Zucchet were found guilty of corruption charges in 2005. They were accused of trying to relax a law that bans touching between strip club patrons and dancers, a change that would allow clubs to make more money. The federal government said Inzunza [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court handed a partial victory to former Enron chief Jeff Skilling on Thursday, as it ruled the “honest services” fraud statute used was too vague.A narrowing of the scope of the statute, which also allows the federal government to go after local officials for corruption, could mean big headaches for prosecutors in [...]
That drew the ire of Neal Plastik, who said the drug works far better for him than conventional painkillers.“You shouldn’t be regulating people who are just trying to help other people,” he said.Jacob’s amendment increased the minimum distance between dispensaries and homes from a proposed 500 feet to 1,000 feet, and [...]
