Florida Newspaper Fights Sex Charge

by Travis Reed, AP

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- For years, the back pages of the Orlando Weekly were filled with ads for naughty nurses, sultry coeds and girls with come-hither names like "Rush" and "Roxie."

But the saucy escort-service advertising came to a halt last month.

Vice squad officers arrested three of the paper's advertising sales reps in a sting operation and secured an extraordinary racketeering indictment against the Weekly, accusing it of knowingly profiting from prostitution.

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