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A Travis County jury Friday sentenced 23-year-old Jon Tyrell Banks to 23 years in prison for robbing and killing strip club patron Elmore Allen last year, according to Banks’ lawyer David Frank.
The jury Wednesday found Banks guilty of felony murder in the April 12, 2010, attack at a Southeast Austin apartment complex. Banks’ girlfriend, Jessica Krause-Patterson, also faces a murder charge in the case and will be tried at a later date.
The two went to trial together in June but it ended in a mistrial. After that trial, Banks turned down a plea bargain offer that included a 14-year sentence.
Allen went to the Hot Bodies all-nude club on Burleson Road on April 12, 2010, according to testimony at the June trial. Allen received private dances from several strippers, including Krause-Patterson, according to testimony.

See the full article from “Austin American-Statesman”

Community Briefing: Fire destroys East Austin club; murder conviction in strip club death
Updated: 10:55 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 Published: 10:35 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011
AUSTIN
New assistant chief named
Patrick Ockletree, a 27-year veteran of the Austin Police Department, was promoted on Wednesday to the rank of assistant chief. Ockletree replaces Assistant Chief John Hutto, who was named chief of the Fort Collins, Colo., Police Department in October.
Ockletree, who was born and raised in Austin, was promoted from the rank of commander, one of only two African Americans holding that rank in the department. He is the only African American assistant chief in the current administration.
“It’s an honor,” Ockletree said. “We’ve seen a lot of changes in the department and in the community, and I want to be a part of that.”
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A Travis County jury on Wednesday found Jon Tyrell Banks guilty of felony murder in the death of a strip club patron last year.

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… What could possibly be the matter?  I asked her, not being really sure that she was alone, and safe to let in, especially with the pus on her face. It took a while to get the story out of her. It seems that she had told the guys at the bar that I was a dancer, and that I would be dancing that night, just to bust balls, meaning mine, but what she did not expect was that the few women in the bar that afternoon when I dropped her off , had taken her at her word. Within a few hours after I had left, the bar was full of women expecting to see a white guy shake his groove thing. This was not a large bar. There was no way  a female dancer could work in a place jammed with half lit women expecting a male stripper. They nearly tore the place to shreds. She looked pretty beat up. She never asked me for a ride to work after that.

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Predatory capitalism follows the failed service economy. Across America there appears to be a direct relation between the casino economy and poverty. Depressed economies from Detroit and upstate New York to Mississippi and Washington have turned to some form of state-sanctioned gambling, which now exists in 41 states. It’s no accident that as inequality began widening in the 1970s, states turned first to lotteries and then to video poker, gaming rooms and full-fledged casinos in the following years.
The numerous gambling ecosystems we have passed attract kindred species: pawn shops, check cashing and payday advance outfits, liquor stores, strip clubs and giant billboards for ambulance-chasing lawyers. Personal vices are one thing; to turn them into a source of profit and government revenue is another. It means preying on millions of addicts and the desperation of the indigent.

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But the creation of specialized crime statistics for Mexican cartels holds some pitfalls. As the Statesman has reported, a similar effort by the The Texas Department of Public Safety along the border has sparked questions of accuracy and exaggeration. For example, DPS considers every case of drug smuggling in border counties a cartel crime regardless of size and circumstance. And several statewide killings cited by DPS as cartel-related appear on closer examination to stretch that definition. For example, a double slaying at a Travis County strip club is considered a cartel killing, even though an arrest affidavit and civil lawsuit state the killings occurred after a dancer accused one of the men of stealing her cell phone. While the suspect was the target of federal cocaine smuggling investigation, the facts of the case, at least those presented in the available court documents, don’t reveal a fight over drugs or organized crime.

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So are Austin and Naomi endgame? That remains to be seen, but I did want to find out straight from the source! I talked with the adorable (and super friendly) Justin Deeley today about what’s in store for Austin in tonight’s episode, as well as for the rest of the season. And what ever happened to his role as the stripper in last year’s season finale? Read on to find out!
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Ology: Hi Justin, how are you? Justin Deeley: I’m lovely, how are you?Great, thank you. So you weren’t in last week’s episode, but I know you’re back tonight. What can we expect? This week is really something you haven’t seen from Austin and Naomi, which I think is an actual relationship. And Austin is also going through some personal stuff and that kind of comes out throughout the episode and causes a little bit of tension between Austin and Naomi. It’s the first time when Austin’s been given the …

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Demi and Ashton: “Everyone in Hollywood knows about their arrangement.” Star is extra mean this week. Demi is “frail, ashen and somber” because her “secret life with Ashton has always been much more twisted than anyone imagined.” Demi is bisexual, “attracted to women just as much as men” (how long until they pair her up with Amber Heard?). She’s been “spotted at strip clubs and in the arms of other women several times over the past few years,” was “cool with Ashton having flirtatious relationships too,” and “Somehow made it work all these years.” Maybe Kabbalah prescribes The Ethical Slut or something. “Both of them were respectful of each other. It was a lot of fun for them.” But then it all went wrong when he started “hooking up with lots of young women behind her back” and now she feels “humiliated.” They are still living together, but “Demi is miserable” and her friends are pressing her to file for divorce. “Once one of Hollywood’s hottest a …

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WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA — Birthdays are one of the most personal holidays available and multi-award winning gay porn impresario Chi Chi LaRue wants both mainstream and porn friends to help her celebrate this Wednesday, November 9, 2011.
LaRue’s wild annual birthday bash will take place in West Hollywood beginning at 9:00 pm PST and will feature a live performance by former Pussycat Doll Kaya Jones, as well as some nearly naked on-stage appearances from the hot boys of AustinZane.com.
 LaRue will DJ the evening, which will be located at Here Lounge at 696 N. Robertson Blvd., during its weekly Stripper Circus night.
Sponsored by LaRue’s store on Santa Monica Blvd. and Swiss Navy Lube, the night will feature plenty of giveaways to patrons, as well as big prizes for winners of the sexy and fun Stripper Circus carnival games.

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Mrs. Pickler does not approve of the request for Bob to step aside, so she enters the upcoming butter-carving contest in an attempt to keep the prize in the Pickler family. But there’s a catch. There’s a new kid in town — a young African American foster child named Destiny (Yara Shahidi). And it turns out that Destiny has a knack for carving butter.
As you might imagine, Laura Pickler becomes quite upset when Destiny challenges her for the butter-carving title.
Both Garner and Shahidi shine in their roles, but Shahidi is the revelation. She narrates the movie, and her wry commentary about the strange ways of white people is a hoot.
Olivia Wilde, who had little to do in the recent “Cowboys and Aliens,” has a great supporting role as a stripper who has a past with Bob Pickler.

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Three Anita Perry employers have lobbied or done business with the state government. One is the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault (TAASA), which supports abortion rights, although both Perrys oppose abortion. TAASA also promoted a controversial “pole tax” on strip club patrons. Her fundraising efforts have garnered a substantial number of contributions from her husband’s conservative supporters for the group.
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In 2007 TAASA successfully revived a languishing proposal to impose a $5-per-customer fee on strip clubs, with the revenue earmarked for sexual-assault prevention programs and health insurance for low-income Texas residents. The fee was challenged in court, but so far has been sustained. The state has already collected more than $15 million under the law, but no funds have been distributed because of the ongoing court battle.
TAASA insists that Anita Perry had no role in this or any other legislative initiative. “She does fundraising. I have never been in any meeting on a policy issue – strip club or otherwise – with Mrs. Perry,” said association lobbyist Lawrence Collins. Others in the state capital echoed that view.

See the full article from “Reuters”