The 234 Apartment

Three of the four men charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting the girl are also behind bars. The men are from Honduras, immigrants who found a home at the Heatherwood Apartments. The complex, near Peoria and Colfax in Aurora, is a racial melting pot , one that came to a boil on August 7, when a girl trying to leap to womanhood in a single summer got a very adult lesson. The violence bred more violence -- and more victims. News accounts the next day reported that a seventy-person mob had delivered street justice to one of the accused rapists. Although the reports weren't quite right -- nothing in this saga is -- street justice may be the only justice here. Anna grew up in the neighborhood and has a huge family of siblings and half-siblings. Anna has another daughter who was also taken away by Social Services when Anna went to prison. The girls have a baby brother, too, a child Anna gave birth to after she got out of prison two years ago. That baby has a different father w...

Anybody else want to whip bride Linda ’s pink peony flower crown off her head and try it on? It’s a masterpiece isn’t it, and beautifully finishes off her bohemian bridal look. Her Rime Arodaky gown is perfect for the surrounding Tuscan countryside too with it’s cut out lace detail and heavenly long sleeves . A true beauty amongst nature. And keeping with the relaxed, stylish, country vibes of this destination wedding was the fairy light reception and table scape decorated with a garland of O’Hara roses that is just out of this world. Plus a party to rival all parties with an Italian swing-folk band. All the emotion, magic and that delicious pink peony flower crown was captured by Due su Due Photography . Enjoy lovely ones. Wedding Linda The Bride: When we decided to get married, Giuseppe and I had already been together for 6 years. Together, we had travelled to many countries, furnished three apartments, and moved from Italy to the Netherlands for work. We already felt committe...

Johnson Chrome was a notorious big spender with a taste for bottle service , bespoke suits and $10,000 shoes. The source of his wealth? A sophisticated identity theft scheme that may have conned Torontonians out of millions. The untold story of the city’s most wanted fraudster Photographs: All portraits via Facebook; background by iStock T he fraudster who called himself Johnson Chrome liked to sit on a bench at the intersection of Hazelton and Yorkville, smoking a Montecristo Edmundo robusto and talking about fashion, cars and cigars to anyone who’d listen. He was charming and handsome, with a neatly trimmed beard , a shaved head and perfect teeth. The perch placed him at the centre of the rarefied universe he’d come to inhabit. His condo, in the former Four Seasons hotel, was steps to the west, and he parked his black Jaguar at the Hazelton Hotel opposite . His gym, the sleek Equinox, was a minute’s walk northwest; his preferred cigar shop , La Casa del Habano , was to the sout...