Fire guts topless coffee shop in Maine; owner was seeking to make it more like a strip club

October 6th, 2009 Man held in death of 'Housewives' star's ex-fianceATLANTA — A strip club worker is being held without bond in the death of a "Real Housewives of Atlanta" cast member's ex-fiance. Ashley "A.J." Jewell died at a hospital after a scuffle at the Atlanta strip club Friday night.

October 3rd, 2009 'Housewives' cast member's ex-fiance dies in fightATLANTA — The former fiance of a cast member from "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" died Friday night after a fight outside an Atlanta strip club, and police said they had charged a man in his death. Atlanta police spokesman James Polite said Fredrick Richardson was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of Ashley "A.J." Jewell, who died from massive head injuries after the fight in the parking lot of the Body Tap Club.

October 1st, 2009 Topless club owner: Gingrich group rescinded awardDALLAS — Newt Gingrich's conservative group gave — and then rescinded — a business award to a popular topless club in Texas, the proprietor said Thursday. Dawn Rizos said she was looking forward to receiving the promised "Entrepreneur of the Year" award at a Washington, D.C., banquet from American Solutions for Winning the Future, which the former U.S.

September 30th, 2009 Activists protest Va. strip club's Obama banner RICHMOND, Va.

September 25th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Pink seems to be titillating her fans at recent concerts by singing topless and flashing a little heart covered boob. The singer is currently in Atlanta and performing in front of thousands of US troops, reports the Daily Telegraph.

September 2nd, 2009 OZZY OSBOURNE is to headline a three-night Los Angeles street festival in his honour and return to the fabled Sunset Strip for the first time in almost 40 years. The Strip will be closed for the first time ever on 12 September (09) as part of the Sunset Strip Musical Festival, which will start with Osbourne's honour on 10 September (09).

August 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza is set to appear topless in the September issue of men's mag Maxim. The magazine will hit newsstands just as she relinquishes her crown Aug.

July 23rd, 2009 Michael Vick lawyer denies strip club reportsRICHMOND, Va. — A lawyer for Michael Vick says the quarterback did not spend his first night of freedom at a Virginia Beach strip club.

July 19th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Designing a private golf course on a glacier, creating an exact replica of a unique coffee shop-these are just some of the most extravagant guest requests luxury hotels around the world have encountered. The Great Hotels of the World, a group of five star hotels and resorts around the globe, released a list of the most extravagant and unusual guest requests they have experienced as part of their 91 Days of Summer campaign, reports The Courier Mail.

July 14th, 2009 'Bonnie and Clyde' director Penn in hospitalWATERVILLE, Maine — Arthur Penn, who directed the films "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Miracle Worker," is in a New York hospital with pneumonia and can't attend a Maine film festival as planned. Penn, who is 86, was to have received an award at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville on Wednesday.

July 9th, 2009 Missing Liberty replica turns up in Web beheadingNEW YORK — A replica Statue of Liberty stolen from a New York City coffee shop has apparently turned up in a video that shows it blindfolded, beheaded and smashed to pieces. The video includes slogans like "We don't want your freedom" and "Death to America" flashing in 1980s video game font on the screen.

June 8th, 2009 NEW YORK - American pornographic actor Ron Jeremy has decided to open a swingers' club after his waistline started expanding and his career as a porn star started dwindling. Jeremy, 56, will be opening Club Sesso in downtown Portland, Ore, with a local club owner later this month.

June 1st, 2009 Man pleads not guilty in Mass. strip club shootingSPRINGFIELD, Mass.

June 1st, 2009 Geena Davis speaks at Maine college's graduationLEWISTON, Maine — Actress Geena Davis says it's critical that young people see more women in movies and TV. Addressing Bates College graduates in Lewiston, Maine, Davis says that "society can only benefit if women are at the table." The founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media told the graduates on Sunday that studies show kids are seeing "a very unbalanced world," with three male characters for every one female.

May 28th, 2009 LONDON - Katie Green is certainly a girl of her words. The stunner, who is notorious for her flesh-flashing ways, lived up to her earlier promised skin show as she went topless on a beach in Turkey.