Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The offer was too good to resist: Go to rehab for a week, get $1,000 in cash. It was early 2017, and Brianne, a 20-year-old from a woody Atlanta suburb, had come to South Florida to leave her heroin addiction behind. At a residential facility called Recovery Villas of the Treasure Coast, she was approached by a charismatic guy I’ll call Daniel, a Pennsylvania native six years her elder. He could relate to her troubles—he’d struggled with addiction himself—and he could get her into another rehab after Recovery Villas. He would even pay her: $1,000 for the first week of her stay and $500 each week thereafter. That money could buy Brianne a whole lot of heroin. Brianne, whose full name has been withheld to protect her privacy, could be a poster child for the opioid crisis: a blond, green-eyed former softball star who experimented with pills from the medicine cabinet with her high school boyfriend … [Read more...] about “Mom, When They Look at Me, They See Dollar Signs”
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Scene Singer Dahvie Vanity Is A Rapist Who Preys On Minors, A Dozen Women Say
U.S. NEWS 12/18/2018 07:00 am ET Jesus David Torres, the 34-year-old frontman of Blood on the Dance Floor, is accused of manipulating his young fans, then sexually assaulting them. By Sebastian Murdock and Jesselyn Cook The first time Priscilla Hendry met Jesus David Torres in person, he immediately tried to kiss her. She was 15. Torres was 22. It was 2006, and the two had recently started talking on Myspace. Torres would soon be known onstage and online as Dahvie Vanity, lead singer of the band Blood on the Dance Floor, but at the time, Hendry knew him only as a hairdresser who seemed eager to meet her in person. They made a date. When Torres showed up on Hendry’s doorstep in Spring Hill, Florida, she instantly recognized him by his over-the-top scene hair wig and colorfully decorated face. And right away, he went in for a kiss, she said. “Like, aggressively,” she recently told HuffPost, “and I pulled back, because who meets someone for the first … [Read more...] about Scene Singer Dahvie Vanity Is A Rapist Who Preys On Minors, A Dozen Women Say
Ray’s Ybor stadium deal nearing deadline with no agreement in sight
Leaders of the effort to nail down a $900-million financial package for a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium in Ybor City say the outlines of a deal can still be reached before a Dec. 31 deadline.But no binding documents have been inked. And as Hillsborough officials and the Rays parry, people on both sides now acknowledge that at the very least, the first pitch at a new ballpark might be delayed until 2024 — a year later than what had been proposed.RELATED: Deadline clock ticking on Rays agreement with St. Pete: What happens next?JOHN ROMANO: While Tampa is counting dollars on Rays stadium, St. Pete is counting the daysSt. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman hasn't said what he'll do on Jan. 1, when a memorandum of understanding between his city and the team that allowed it to explore Hillsborough stadium sites expires. But any extension could cost the Rays millions.The St. Petersburg City Council would have to approve it and one council member, Charlie Gerdes, has already suggested the city … [Read more...] about Ray’s Ybor stadium deal nearing deadline with no agreement in sight
The Weekender: Serial killers, crafty barbers, and Nine Inch Nails
Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page By Michael Andor Brodeur Globe Correspondent October 18, 2018 Hey there Weekenders!Feel that creeping sense of doom? The air of unease? The sense that something horrific is, like, just around the corner?Me too! Man, I just love Halloween. (Why, what did you think I was talking about?) Advertisement Things might be kind of abnormal and unpredictable these days, but at least the next three of them are right on schedule, reporting for duty. It’s the weekend, y’all! And something tells me we’ve all got some steam to blow off. If you’re not busy making your Gritty costume (or if you haven’t already realized that everyone’s going as Gritty), I’ve got a whole list of things to take your mind off of . . . everything else. (And if you still don’t have your costume sorted by next weekend, I’ll have you … [Read more...] about The Weekender: Serial killers, crafty barbers, and Nine Inch Nails
New kids’ playground in Minneapolis boasts power tools, saws, old rusty Honda
It looks like a junkyard, albeit an especially vibrant one. There’s an old rusty Honda parked in one corner. Piles of twisted rebar, wooden boards and PVC pipes sit near a cart piled with power tools. The massive, hand-built wooden spaceship has a turret seat up top, and the 12-foot-tall lookout platform is reachable only by climbing an extension ladder. Eight-year-old Simon Pluger paused halfway up the ladder’s steps. “Am I supposed to be up here?” he asked. In this “adventure playground,” the answer is yes. Run by nonprofit Leonardo’s Basement, the new outdoor play space in southwest Minneapolis is supervised by adults, but there are only three rules: Be safe, be nice and have fun. Adventure playgrounds are a far cry from most American playgrounds, which carefully follow federal safety guidelines that ban sharp edges on monkey bars, swings and slides, setting height limits and requiring the ground surface under play equipment to be soft … [Read more...] about New kids’ playground in Minneapolis boasts power tools, saws, old rusty Honda