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• After initial confusion caused by the release of names without ages or addresses, a judge on Tuesday granted a request for additional information about the first 21 names out of what's believed to be more than 150 men accused of paying a fitness instructor for sex.
• The list included former South Portland Mayor James Soule, who didn't return calls to his home and business, and didn't answer his door.
• Others on the list included a lawyer and a real estate appraiser. The men ranged in age from 34 to 65.
• The town had been awaiting the release of the list since 29-year-old Alexis Wright was charged this month with engaging in prostitution in her dance studio and in an office across the street and secretly videotaping many of her encounters. Police said she kept meticulous records suggesting the sex acts generated $150,000 over 18 months.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Wednesday, Oct. 17, the 291st day of 2012. There are 75 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Oct. 17, 1777, British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.
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• On this date:
• In 1610, French King Louis XIII, age nine, was crowned at Reims, five months after the assassination of his father, Henry IV.
• In 1711, Jupiter Hammon, the first black poet to have his work published in America, was born on Long Island, N.Y., into a lifetime of slavery.
• In 1807, Britain declared it would continue to reclaim British-born sailors from American ships and ports regardless of whether they held U.S. citizenship.
• In 1912, Pope John Paul I was born Albino Luciani at Forno di Canale, Italy.
• In 1931, mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion. (Sentenced to 11 years in prison, Capone was released in 1939.)
• In 1933, Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
• In 1941, the U.S. destroyer Kearny was damaged by a German torpedo off the (Continued on page 40)
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