LAS VEGAS — Police say a man and woman are dead after a murder-suicide shooting at a hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
Las Vegas Police Lt. Ray Steiber says a man shot a woman at about 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Excalibur hotel-casino. The man then shot and killed himself.
Steiber says the woman was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
He says the circumstances of the shooting are under investigation.
A Miami-area photographer who secretly videotaped children while they changed clothes in his home studio was sentenced in federal court Friday to 10 years in prison.
Diego Tobias Matrajt, 37, pleaded guilty in September to distribution and possession of child pornography.
Last February, Matrajt distributed 10 images of child pornography to an undercover agent by using a peer-to-peer file sharing program, according to court records.
In April, FBI agents did a search of his home and computers, uncovering 26 video images of boys and girls changing clothes alone in a guest bedroom with their genitalia exposed, records show.
Matrajt admitted surreptitiously video recording children under the age of 12 as they changed clothes in the guest bedroom during photo shoots.
As morning turned to afternoon on Friday, further details continued to emerge from Newtown, CT, a tight-knit community shaken by a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that took the lives of innocent students and teachers, in addition to the gunman, reportedly identified as Adam Lanza.
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As President Barack Obama touched on in his tear-jerking press conference, this is not the first time the nation has witnessed a tragedy of this kind. The recent mass shooting at an Aurora, CO movie theater is just one instance of such violence. Columbine High School and Virginia Tech also resonate as prime examples.
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Entrepreneurs from around the world took the stage during this packed week of entrepreneurship events in Miami: Florida International University’s Americas Venture Capital Conference (known as AVCC), HackDay, Wayra’s Global DemoDay and Endeavor’s International Selection Panel.
The events, all part of the first Innovate MIA week, also put the spotlight on Miami as it continues to try to develop into a technology hub for the Americas.
“While I like art, I absolutely love what is happening today... The time has come to become a tech hub in Miami,” said Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez, who kicked off the venture capital conference on Thursday. He told the audience of 450 investors and entrepreneurs about the county’s $1 million investment in the Launch Pad Tech Accelerator in downtown Miami.
“I have no doubt that this gathering today will produce new ideas and new business ventures that will put our community on a fast track to becoming a center for innovative, tech-driven entrepreneurship,” Gimenez said.
Brad Feld, an early-stage investor and a founder of TechStars, cautioned that won’t happen overnight. Building a startup community can take five, 10, even 15 years, and those leading the effort, who should be entrepreneurs themselves, need to take the long-term view, he told the audience via video. “You can create very powerful entrepreneurial ecosystems in any city... I’ve spent some time in Miami, I think you are off to a great start.”
Throughout the two-day AVCC at the JW Brickell Marriott, as well as the Endeavor and Wayra events, entrepreneurs from around the world pitched their companies, hoping to persuade investors to part with some of their green.
And in some cases, the entrepreneurs could win money, too. During the venture capital conference, 29 companies —including eight from South Florida such as itMD, which connects doctors, patients and imaging facilities to facilitate easy access of records — competed for more than $50,000 in cash and prizes through short “elevator’’ pitches. Each took questions from the judges, then demoed their products or services in the conference “Hot Zone,” a room adjoining the ballroom. Some companies like oLyfe, a platform to organize what people share online, are hoping to raise funds for expansion into Latin America. Others like Ideame, a trilingual crowdfunding platform, were laser focused on pan-Latin American opportunities.
Winning the grand prize of $15,000 in cash and art was Trapezoid Digital Security of Miami, which provides hardware-based security solutions for enterprise and cloud environments. Fotopigeon of Tampa, a photo-sharing and printing service targeting the military and prison niches, scored two prizes.
The conference offered opportunities to hear formal presentations on current trends — among them the surge of start-ups in Brazil; the importance of mobile apps and overheated company valuations — and informal opportunities to connect with fellow entrepreneurs.
Speakers included Gaston Legorburu of SapientNitro, Albert Santalo of CareCloud and Juan Diego Calle of .Co Internet, all South Florida entrepreneurs. Jerry Haar, executive director of FIU’s Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center, which produced the conference with a host of sponsors, said the organizers worked hard to make the conference relevant to both the local and Latin American audience, with panels on funding and recruiting for startups, for instance.
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After a wrongful murder conviction that put him behind bars for 27 years, William Michael Dillon received formal forgiveness from the state Thursday.
Dillon, who was awarded a $1.3 million settlement by the state in March, stood before Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet and recounted how far his life has come since he was released from a maximum security prison four years ago, exonerated by DNA evidence.
Clemency hearings, in which elected officials grant pardons and rule on whether to restore civil rights for convicted felons, are usually somber, even tearful. But Dillon’s testimony was upbeat, drawing smiles from an audience of freed felons waiting for their own opportunity to ask for the legal system’s fullest measure of forgiveness.
In Dillon’s case, his civil rights — the ability to sit on a jury, own guns, hold public office and vote — were returned after he was exonerated. But for him, the pardon he was granted Thursday was the real vindication.
“It’s a great, great, great day to be here...” Dillon said, a silver necklace of a soaring bald eagle draped over his blue tie. “Now my life is good, I’m moving on, and I’m definitely going to make a positive impact from here on out.”
Dillon was 21 years old in 1981 when law enforcement officers approached him at a Brevard County gas station to ask him about James Dvorak, who had been beaten to death in a wooded area nearby.
Dillon worked two jobs — as a bowling alley mechanic and construction worker. And he spent his free time chasing pretty girls and trying to figure out what to do with his life. Innocent and unconcerned, he answered officers’ questions.
But the interrogation resulted in an arrest and a deeply flawed investigation that was later discredited.
Dillon’s full pardon Thursday was a foregone conclusion.
Scott apologized on behalf of the state when he signed a claims bill during an emotional March ceremony. Attorney General Pam Bondi, after Thursday’s hearing, said she was pleased to give the pardon.
“I hope he can go on with his life and be a productive citizen,” she said.
Dillon has big plans for the rest of his life, many of them colored by his desire to fix a flawed justice system.
He the focus of a documentary on the Discovery Channel’s I Didn’t Do It, which first aired Monday and is scheduled for another run Sunday.
He’s written 600 pages for a book about his life. And he performs in an all-exoneree band.
He recently joined the board of the Innocence Project of Florida, which advocates for the exoneration of wrongfully convicted inmates.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday dropped a website owned by China‘s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group, from its annual list of the world’s most “notorious markets” for sales of pirated and counterfeit goods.
Taobao Marketplace, an online shopping site similar to eBay and Amazon that brings together buyers and sellers, “has been removed from the 2012 List because it has undertaken notable efforts over the past year to work with rightholders directly or through their industry associations to clean up its site,” the U.S. Trade Representative‘s office said in the report.
The move came just before an annual high-level U.S.-China trade meeting next week in Washington.
Taobao Marketplace is China’s largest consumer-oriented e-commerce platform, with estimated market share of more than 70 percent. The website has nearly 500 million registered users, with more than 800 million product listings at any given time. Most of the users are in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has called Taobao “one of the single largest online sources of counterfeits.”
The Chinese Commerce Ministry strongly objected to Taobao’s inclusion on the USTR’s 2011 notorious markets list. A ministry spokesman said it did not appear to be based on any “conclusive evidence or detailed analysis.
Alibaba hired former USTR General Counsel James Mendenhall to help persuade USTR to remove Taobao from its list.
The Chinese company’s bid to shed its “notorious” label won support from the Motion Picture Association of America, a former critic of Taobao, which praised its effort to reduce the availability of counterfeit goods on its website.
But U.S. software, clothing and shoe manufacturers urged USTR to keep Taobao on the list.
To stay off in the future, USTR urged “Taobao to further streamline procedures … for taking down listings of counterfeit and pirated goods and to continue its efforts to work with and achieve a satisfactory outcome with U.S. rights holders and industry associations.”
USTR said it also removed Chinese website Sogou from the notorious markets list, based on reports that it has made “notable efforts to work with rights holders to address the availability of infringing content on its site.”
U.S. concerns about widespread piracy and counterfeiting of American goods in China are expected to be high on the agenda at next week’s meeting in Washington of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade.
The 2012 notorious markets list includes Xunlei, which USTR described as a Chinese-based site that facilitates the downloading and distribution of pirated movies.
Baixe de Tudo, a website hosted in Sweden but targeted at the Brazilian market, was also put on the list along with the Chinese website Gougou.
Warez-bb, which USTR described as a hub for pre-release music, software and video games, was also included. The forum site is registered in Sweden but hosted by a Russian Internet service provider, USTR said.
The full report can be found on USTR’s website at: http://www.ustr.gov/sites/default/files/121312%20Notorious%20Markets%20List.pdf
(Reporting by Doug Palmer; Editing by Will Dunham, Dan Grebler and Jim Marshall)
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The LAB Miami announced Thursday it will open a 10,000-square-foot co-working center in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and local angel investors are investing $650,000.
As Miami’s startup community continues to grow, The LAB Miami said its “work-learn campus” will offer an in-house mentor network that will include investors and serial entrepreneurs, said Wifredo Fernandez, co-founder of The LAB Miami with Danny Lafuente and Elisa Rodriguez-Vila.
The LAB Miami, now in a 720-square-foot space in the same neighborhood, turned a Goldman building at 400 NW 26th Street into an artsy, modern space that can support 300 members, including tech startups, programmers, designers, investors, nonprofits, artists and academics.
In addition to offering space to work, the new co-working space plans to offer courses and workshops in business and technology — including a startup school and code school — as well as art, design and education, Fernandez said. It will be a welcoming space for traveling Latin Americans, too. “We want this to be a community center for entrepreneurs,” said Fernandez, explaining that the mix of activities and workshops will be structured by the needs of the LAB’s members.
While the Knight Foundation’s Miami office has sponsored many entrepreneurship events in the past four months, this is the foundation’s largest investment announced so far in its efforts to help accelerate entrepreneurship in Miami, said the Knight Foundation’s Miami program director, Matt Haggman. The Knight Foundation’s Miami office, which made accelerating entrepreneurship one of its key areas of focus this year, is investing $250,000 with the rest of the funding coming from a group of investors lead by Marco Giberti, Faquiry Diaz-Cala, Boris Hirmas Said and Daniel Echavarria.
“This is an important part of our strategy,” said Haggman. “Entrepreneurs need places to gather, connect and learn.”
The LAB Miami has already hosted several events, including HackDay and Wayra DemoDay earlier this week, and the co-working space plans to open for membership in January.
Co-working space will start at $200 a month to use the communal tables, and private offices that will accommodate up to six are also available. The LAB will also offer “Connect” memberships for $40 a month, which allows members who do not need co-working space to participate in events. In addition, there will be phone booths, classrooms, flexible meeting spaces, a lounge area, a kitchen, a “pop-up shop” for local fashion, art or technology products, a shower for those who bike to work and an outside garden with native landscaping.
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Derek Jeter is looking for a massive bachelor pad, and he’s willing to pay a heavy rent after selling his gargantuan Trump World Tower home for $15.5 million in October.
The Yankee captain recently checked out a $25,000-a-month, 4,000-square-foot, five-bedroom, four-bathroom duplex rental at 129 W. 20th St. That’s less indoor space than the 5,425 square feet he had at Trump but more than enough room to stretch out. It also comes with 2,000 square feet of outdoor space. And Jeter still, of course, has his oversized 30,000-square-foot Tampa mansion, famously dubbed St. Jetersburg.
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The Chelsea pad Jeter visited “is like a private home on top of a loft building,” our spy says. Jeter arrived at the listing looking sharp and well-rested in jeans and a blazer. Over the years, the unit has been eyed by other celebrities known for, um, playing the field — from Jude Law, who had an affair with his nanny, to Russell Brand, who was once married to Katy Perry.
Citi Habitats’ Jason Saft has the listing.
Marcus moving
Marcus Samuelsson, fresh off a (fully clothed) Playboy shoot for a feature about hot NYC chefs, has put his 2,250-square-foot, three-bedroom condo on West 118th Street on the market for $1.65 million.
The Harlem duplex, listed by Angela Holton of Brown Harris Stevens, includes a windowed chef’s kitchen and a terrace with a high-end barbecue grill.
We hear that Samuelsson, who added heat to the area with his Red Rooster restaurant, is upgrading his digs to a historic Harlem townhouse that he’s in the process of purchasing.
Model ‘shows’ all
Trish Goff, a former model who has appeared in Victoria’s Secret shows and international editions of Vogue, got her real estate license in July. The Douglas Elliman broker now has a hot property on the market — a 20-foot-wide Greek Revival townhouse owned by fashion stylist Alessandra Gambaccini, CEO of Sciascia Gambaccini. It is on the market for $5.495 million.
The four-story townhouse, in the Gold Coast of Greenwich Village at 45 W. 12th St., dates back to 1846 and has been renovated by Milan architect Roberto Gerosa. The home includes hand-painted walls by Italian decorator Marina Spinola.
Rollin’ in Greene
The Fugees’ resident real estate aficionado, Pras, has rented a stunning apartment at the 60 Greene St. condo building after a lengthy search.
The full-floor, 3,900-square-foot unit, with just one bedroom and two bathrooms, is designed for entertaining. It was listed for $30,000 a month.
An elevator opens into the apartment, which has cast-iron columns and 13-foot ceilings. It iss furnished in all white, with a dining area that seats 12 at a table cut from a single slab of white marble.
We also bet Pras loves the high-tech sound system and the bedroom area with a 72-inch drop-down TV screen separated by floor-to-ceiling translucent drapes.
Meier buys Meier pad
Good taste runs in the family.
Furniture designer Ana Meier has plunked down $6.5 million for an apartment at 165 Charles St. That’s one of the West Village buildings designed by her starchitect father, Richard Meier.
Ana Meier now has the condo, which was sold by gallery owner Barbara Gladstone, available for rent at $27,500 a month.
Town Residential listing broker Bill Kowalczuk declined to comment.
The glassy building suffered damage during Hurricane Sandy, but the lobby is restored and amenities will be back up and running by February, we’re told. Meier’s two nearby towers on Perry Street did not fare as well. Celebrity residents there, including Calvin Klein and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, won’t be able to move back in for several months.
Chalk up another One
One Fifth Avenue, the subject of a Candace Bushnell novel, is still going strong. A unit in the stately, 27-story landmarked building was snapped up for its full $1.39 million asking price shortly after it was put on the market. The seller, Weill Cornell Medical’s
Larry Schafer, is unloading the 930-square-foot co-op to insurance exec Richard
Press and his wife, Jeanne, who worked with broker Carol Staab of Douglas Elliman. The deal is expected to close next week.
The listing broker is the Corcoran Group’s Laurie Karpowich. Building residents have included Blythe Danner and Jessica Lange.
We hear . . .
That Elizabeth Ann Stribling-Kivlan is the new president of Stribling and Associates as her mom, Elizabeth Stribling, becomes chairman. Superbroker Kirk Henckels becomes vice chairman . . . That Joseph Sitt and Joseph Moinian hit Town Residential’s holiday party.
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