Nine councils across Sydney have paid detectives to have sex with prostitutes to gather evidence against illegal brothels.

Mayor Nick Ebbeck says Ku-ring-gai Council has spent almost $14,000 over to years to have two illegal brothels shutdown in its residential suburb of Roseville.

The council also suspects three more are operating in nearby suburbs of Lindfield, Willoughby and Pymb...

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The state's LEADS database of warrants, runaways and warnings is still an effective, efficient tool to apprehend suspected bad guys, state and local officials say.

Also, a new system could augment LEADS -- which stands for Law Enforcement Automated Data System -- where ...

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The NSW government must give local councils or police the power to stop unlicensed brothels from operating and offering unprotected sex, a mayor on Sydney...

Ad Links Buy a link » Benjamin Niolet, Staff Writer Mary Dombalis Winstead has kept a low profile throughout her 25-year career as a prosecutor. That's over now.

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Winstead's friends, family and colleagues say she ...

China is considering evidence that routine male circumcision could reduce a man's risk of HIV infection but likely will not implement such a campaign nationwide, Ru Xiaomei, deputy director general of China's National Population and Family Planning Commission, said on Friday, Reuters U.K. reports.

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SALT LAKE CITY -- Death penalty opponents are using a recent botched lethal injection in Florida, the controversy over the hangings in Iraq and the 30th anniversary of the firing squad execution of Gary Gilmore in Utah to call for a moratorium on state-sponsored executions.

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DALLAS -- In a case that has renewed questions about the quality of Texas justice, a man who spent 10 years behind bars for the rape of a boy has become the 12th person in Dallas County to be cleared by DNA evidence.

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The body of the late James Brown has yet to be buried as attorneys and his children work to settle issues surrounding his estate, including whether he will be cremated or whether his parts will be sold off to repair other sex machines.

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Man faces sex charge following MySpace encounter with girl, 15

. SHEBOYGAN, Wis. ? A 20-year-old band singer was charged with felony sexual assault after prosecutors accused him of having sex with a 15-year-old girl he met through the Web site MySpace.com.

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Private detectives in Australia were paid thousands of dollars to have sex with prostitutes to gather evidence needed to shut down illegal brothels.Full story: ctv.ca Private investigators were paid the equivalent of C$23,150 over the last three years by 9 local councils.

They were to go undercover and have sex with prostitutes so that they could get evidence to shut down the illegal brot...