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State cracks down on up-skirting videos

Last updated Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 5:22pm

NAPLES, Fla. -- A Bonita Spring, Fla., man used his cellphone to "up-skirt," taking videos under women's skirts as he bent over and pretended to tie his sneakers at Riverside Park.

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Principal reports 'possible sex crime' after 2 students kiss

Kristine Gill Naples Daily News

Last updated Friday, November 18, 2011 - 10:05am

NAPLES, Fla. -- The assistant principal of an elementary school here called in the sheriff to report a "possible sex crime" after two students shared a kiss.

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Attorneys using actors to prepare for witnesses

Aisling Swift Naples Daily News

Last updated Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 4:05pm

NAPLES, Fla. -- For his role as a nationally renowned cardiologist and researcher, actor Tom Riska read his 100-page script for roughly three hours, stumbling on a few medical words. After boning up during a lunch break, Riska, 60, was confident with his script's medical jargon -- and his part as Dr. Rajendra H. Mehta went off without a hitch.

This wasn't a medical TV show or soap opera. Riska was "testifying" as an expert witness in court, where a surgeon and his physician assistant were on trial in a medical malpractice case.

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Man dressed in drag to cash dead mom's Social Security check

Aisling Swift Naples Daily News

Last updated Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 2:40pm

There are cases nationwide of Social Security checks getting cashed after people have died. Here is a look at some of the more unusual cases compiled from court records and news accounts:

-- In a bizarre 2009 indictment, Thomas Prusik-Parkin, 49, of Brooklyn, donned a wig, nail polish, a dress, cane and oxygen tank to impersonate his dead mother and collect $115,000 in Social Security and rent subsidies after her death in 2003.

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Cases abound of Social Security checks cashed after recipients die

Aisling Swift Naples Daily News

Last updated Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 1:28pm

NAPLES. Fla. -- In two grisly cases last year, two Florida women were accused of hiding their mothers' rotting corpses for years while cashing thousands of dollars of her Social Security checks.

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