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Twin Cities Marathon this Sunday

The 29th annual Twin Cities Marathon will be taking place this Sunday, October 3 in Minnesota. It is known as “the most beautiful urban marathon in America”.

The 26 mile foot race will start near the HHH Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis, and finish up at the State Capitol building in Saint Paul.

There are very large crowds expected to attend the annual marathon. City planners expect close to 300,000 people to be on hand to watch the race. The course includes mostly flat and rolling terrain, and a very scenic view of lakes, trees and rivers.

The marathon will begin at 8:00 AM and conclude at 2:15 PM. Any racers who finish after 2:15 will not be considered “official finishers”. The 6 hour time limit will allow racers to average up to 13:44 per mile.

If you wish to attend the Twin Cities Marathon on Sunday, you can take a bus to the start line. Buses will be leaving from the Metrodome on Sunday morning from these locations:

- Crowne Plaza Riverfront, Downtown Saint Paul, 11 East Kellogg Blvd – two blocks from the Saint Paul RiverCentre
First bus departs at 5:00 a.m., last bus at 6:45 a.m.

- Kelly Inn, I-94 and Marion Street, St. Paul
First bus departs at 5:00 a.m., last bus at 6:45 a.m.

- Radisson Plaza Hotel, 35 S. 7th Street, Minneapolis
First bus departs at 5:30 a.m., last bus at 7:00 a.m.

These are the only locations that buses will be leaving from. Return buses will be operating between 9:00 AM and 2:15 PM only.

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HAVERFORD – A chase involving a suspected stolen car ended in a fatal crash that left one person dead overnight, authorities said.

According to KYW-AM (1060), sometime before midnight, a Land Rover was reported stolen in Radnor Township.

A vehicle matching the description of that stolen S.U.V. was spotted by a Haverford Township police officer on routine patrol near Haverford and Eagle Road.

When the officer tried to stop the vehicle, he said the driver sped out of sight.

About two miles down the road, that stolen Land Rover crashed into the side of a Volkswagen Jetta.

Two men were in the Jetta, both Villanova students. One was killed, the other was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in critical condition.

Police say the driver of the suspected stolen continues as the vehicle fled the scene. The hunt for that person continues.

The intersection has been closed most of the night.  

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Woman is run over by SEPTA bus

On Thursday night in North Philadelphia, a woman was hit by a SEPTA bus a little after 5:30 PM. The accident occurred at 22nd Street & Lehigh Ave. by the Route 33 SEPTA bus. There were approximately 20 passengers on board at the time.

Police are still investigating the cause of the accident, that took the life of the woman. They believe that she may have been running after the bus to catch it and was hit and run over by the front tire.

SEPTA, which stands for “Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority” runs many buses, rails, an trolleys in the city.

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The parent company of Denver-based Westword is battling a lawsuit that alleges that the media giant had a role in a sex trafficking case involving a former runaway teen prostitute.

Lawyers for the unnamed 15-year-old Missouri teen filed a lawsuit last week against Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC, alleging that the Phoenix-based company aided and abetted a pimp by allowing the pimp to post sex ads for the then-14-year-old girl. The ads were posted on Village Voice Medias classified advertising Web site Backpage.com.

Village Voice Media owns Westword, which also uses Backpage.com for Denver through Westword.Backpage.com.

The complaint, filed in a Missouri federal court, alleges that Village Voice Media had knowledge that: explicit sexual photographs were being posted on its website; that postings on their website were advertisements for prostitution services; that minors were included in these postings for prostitution on its website; that sex trafficking of minors was prolific in the United States of America; and that the internet including their service was being used to advertise illegal sexual services, including child exploitation.

Police and human trafficking experts in Denver say problems with Westwords Backpage.com is increasing. The Denver Police Department says it is seeing ads for students from low-income and at-risk alternative Denver schools.

DPD spokesman Lt. Matt Murray says the Denver ads are primarily being found through Westwords Backpage.com.

Murray says Denver investigators are constantly following Westword.Backpage.com to combat growing problems with sex ads featuring minors, as well as prostitution in general. He added that much of the activity is being created by gang members.

The trend were seeing is a lot of gang members are starting to move away from drugs and guns and into this realm, and their targeting at-risk kids from alternative schools, said Murray. Its definitely a problem.

The Denver Police Department is currently seeking a grant to help it combat human trafficking, including child prostitution, according to Murray. He was not at liberty yesterday to discuss the details of the grant.

Village Voice Media is receiving pressure from 21 state attorneys general to close its adult-services section of Backpage.com. The effort is being led by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. 

Similar pressure was placed on Craigslist earlier this month to shut down its adult-services section. The online classified-advertising Web site voluntarily agreed to close its erotic services section after receiving pressure from the attorneys general. 

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers did not sign the letters from the attorneys general encouraging Backpage.com and Craigslist to answer the call. But a spokesman for Suthers said the Republican attorney general supports the effort.

Were part of a larger group of attorneys general that have been working with Blumenthal weve been working on human trafficking issues that obviously effect all of the states in the nation, said Mike Saccone, spokesman for Suthers. We certainly support the efforts of Attorney General Blumenthal and all of our other peer states to combat human trafficking and child prostitution.

Unlike Craigslist, Village Voice Media executives say they will not shut down its Backpage.com adult-services section, arguing that it has increased its efforts to crack down on the growing problem. The company points to assisting law enforcement officials with investigations and blocking ads featuring prostitution and human trafficking.

But sex ads are big money. Twelve Web sites will generate an estimated million in sex-ad revenue in the U.S. this year, according to a Classified Intelligence Report study by the Advanced Interactive Media Group, LLC. With Craigslist out of the picture, many sites are jockeying for position to capture the revenue that Craigslist bypassed, according to the report. 

Backpage.com second to Craigslist in sex ad revenue is expected to earn about .5 million online in sex ads this year, with an additional .9 million in print advertising revenue for sex-related services advertising, according to the AIM Group report. 

Backpage.com immediately took advantage of Craigslists departure from the sex ad market by running an ad for AdultSearch.com, which solicited ads for escorts at each, according to the report. 

Westword editor Patricia Calhoun said yesterday that she is unable to comment on ad revenue generated from such classified ads in Denver because she does not work directly in the advertising department. Taylor Wheeler, Westwords classified sales manager, did not return a phone call and separate e-mail by the Denver Daily News yesterday seeking revenue figures for adult entertainment, alternative healing and medical marijuana classified ads.

Calhoun also declined to comment on the specific lawsuit and the pressure from the attorneys general because she was unfamiliar with the case and the letters. 

Steve Suskin, an attorney for Village Voice Media, lashed out at attorneys for filing the lawsuit on behalf of the Missouri teen. He said it is ridiculous to allege that Village Voice Media knowingly assisted the pimp, Latasha Jewell McFarland, in posting pornographic photographs of the former teen prostitute as part of the sex ad.

McFarland has since pled guilty to prostitution charges in federal court.

The lawsuit is riddled with errors, Suskin said in a statement. The claim that we knowingly assisted McFarland in committing criminal acts is a lie fabricated by a trial lawyer looking for a payday. The attorney seeks to redirect blame from a convicted predator to Backpage.com, which helped prosecute the criminal.

Suskin points out that Village Voice Media has testified in five previous underage cases, and provided the FBI with an I.P. address and credit card information in the latest case.

Village Voice Media also includes a disclaimer on its Backpage.com site, asking users to agree that they are 18 years of age or older and do not live in a community or local jurisdiction where nude pictures and explicit adult materials are prohibited. Users are also asked to agree to report suspected exploitation of minors and/or human trafficking to the appropriate authorities.

Without our knowledge, the predator violated our terms of use, states Suskin.

Amanda Finger, executive director of the Colorado-based Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking, said that while classified sites such as Backpage.com claim to be monitoring illegal activity such as human trafficking, there really isnt all that much monitoring going on. She said users know this and take advantage of the easy-to-use forum.

Its an easy venue thats a place where people trust the source, they trust the site that theyre going to, and it becomes this normal behavior said Finger. (Classified sites) claim to be working with law enforcement, but those (claims) werent substantiated, and they claim to be monitoring, but there was no monitoring.

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UK Today News: Ayodhya Verdict Latest News:  Babri Masjid Verdict To Be Announced and Published On Allahabad High Court UK

Babri Masjid News – In the latest news of the Ayodhya Court Verdict, it has been reported that the verdict will be pronounced at 04.00 PM IST, and in addition to this, the verdict will be published on the Allahabad Court’s official website. The official website of the Allahabad court is as follows – allahabadhighcourt.in/. For the people who want to know about the latest development in the Ayodhya verdict, they should also visit the website.

The Ayodhya verdict has acclaimed lot of attention from the media and people around India. The issue has been boiling within India and especially Uttar Pradesh for the past 60 years now, and hence everyone is awaiting for a just pronouncement to be passed. The High Court has been turned into a massive fortress and there is no entrance to the court during the verdict session.

On the other hand, in U.P., the scenario has is as if the state is preparing for a war, police and other forces have been stationed everywhere, just in case the situation goes in the wrong direction.

Incase users could face some problems while opening the website – for there could be traffic congestion on the website – so the users are also advised that they can check the verdict sometime later.

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