American Idol Season 8 Winner Kris Allen
UN – The United Nations Foundation (UNF) is joining forces with the wildly popular United States televised singing competition “American Idol” to help the millions of victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti last month.
During the 25 February broadcast, last year’s winner Kris Allen will perform his hit songs and share footage of his visit to Haiti, where one third of the population was affected by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake.
By Michelle A. Vu
Jim Allen, 47, right, is greeted after arriving at a small welcome home rally in Amarillo, Texas Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. Allen was one of the U.S. missionaries released in Haiti. (Photo: AP Images / LM Otero)
Jim Allen, one of the eight American volunteers freed from jail in Haiti, said he believed the team had all the paperwork necessary to take Haitian children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
A Tampa man was found guilty this week of running a Ponzi scheme that targeted the Haitian-American community.
A federal jury found Michael J. Muzio, 46, guilty of one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud, two counts of substantive wire fraud, six counts of securities fraud, and two counts of lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The missionaries say they were trying to help the children, who they claimed had been orphaned in the recent earthquake
(Port-au-Prince) — Eight of the U.S. missionaries arrested in Haiti late last month on kidnapping charges returned to their hometowns yesterday.
The Americans from Idaho, Kansas and Texas touched down in Florida late Wednesday night after a Haitian judge granted them bail without bond.
Staying behind in the Port-au-Prince jail where they’d been held since January 29th were fellow Americans Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter.
Palm Beach County cops’ battle against the local Haitian-American gang Top 6 was the subject of an episode of The History Channel’s Gangland series.
The gang, most active in the Lake Worth and Boynton Beach area, attracted major law enforcement attention and media coverage after a series of high-profile attacks in late 2006 and early 2007. Those included a shooting at the Boynton Beach Mall on Christmas Eve 2006 and a triple homicide in Lake Worth in March 2007.
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