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The Buzz: To help raise funds for the Audubon Park Garden District, the event will include activities all day, including an outdoor street fair with art, baguette fencing, food trucks and more. |
The Buzz: This classic play by Oscar Wilde will be resurrected at the UCF Theatre. Guests will enjoy a stage performance that entails love triangles and mistaken identities. The comedy will continue throughout July and August. |
The Buzz: The Orlando City Soccer team will be playing FC Dallas. |
When: 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. |
The Buzz: Taking place in the Nautilus Theater, the event will feature a performance by classic rock band Foghat. |
The Buzz: Guests can enjoy a variety of high-energy music by tribute bands at the America Gardens Theater. |
The Buzz: This competition takes place quarterly and winners will be invited to the Ultimate Build Off at the end of the year, along with winning special prizes. |
The Buzz: This event, hosted by Running Happily Ever After, allows interested participants to register for the Glass Slipper Challenge, #PrincessHalf or #Enchanted10K and 5K, which will all take place during the Disney Half Marathon Weekend, presented by Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. |
The Buzz:On the second Thursday of every month in Thornton Park there is a wine and art walk, including food, shopping and more. |
The Buzz:The center will be presenting Aida, with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice. UCF theatre graduate Jerusha Cavazos will play the title role. |
Josh Duhamel Returning To "All My Children" |
Josh Duhamel is returning to "All My Children." |
Josh Duhamel is heading back to Pine Valley, Access Hollywood has confirmed. |
The "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" actor, who rose to fame playing Leo du Pres on "All My Children," will return to the soap for a cameo before the long-running daytime series concludes on ABC this fall. |
"Everyone at 'All My Children' is thrilled and excited to welcome Josh back to Pine Valley," "AMC" Executive Producer Julie Carruthers said in a statement. "The appearance of Leo is sure to be one of the highlights of the season." |
Duhamel's former love interest on the show, Greenlee, played by Rebecca Budig, has left the show a few times since his own departure in 2003, but she's back on the program now, and it's likely his return would involve his former on-screen paramour. |
Duhamel, who won an Emmy for his work as con artist Leo in 2002, isn't the only big screen actor to return to their former soap stomping ground before a series cancellation. |
Julianne Moore returned to "As The World Turns" just last year, before that soap left the air. |
ABC's "One Life To Live" will bow out in January 2012 and it has a number of big screen stars who count Llandview, Penn., as their first major on-screen locale, including a boyish Ryan Phillipe, a pre-"Melrose Place" Marcia Cross and Tommy Lee Jones. |
PLAY IT NOW: 2011 Kids' Choice Awards: Did Miley Cyrus & Heidi Klum Get Slimed? |
Your LinkedIn profile can be the ticket to a better job and career advancement, but if you’ve got the wrong stuff in there, it’s going to just hold you back instead. Career experts say these are the top offenders. |
Your unemployed status. Don’t use your headline to write that you’re unemployed, even if you use the somewhat gentler-sounding “looking for my next opportunity,” the blog Things Career Related advises. “This is prime real estate for branding yourself and including some keywords.” The odds that a potential employer will... |
A bad picture. The average recruiter spends all of six seconds looking at a resume, according to a study conducted by TheLadders. A weird, unflattering or distracting picture will distract people. “Use a professional photographer to get an image that viewers will find appealing,” Katherine Burik advises on the Intervie... |
Dust. Metaphorical dust, that is. Keeping your profile active is one of the most important signals you can send to a prospective employer, says LinkedIn career expert Catherine Fisher. “A robust and active profile can be your ticket to a variety of professional opportunities,” she says. If you don’t have the time or th... |
Lame cliches. Every year, LinkedIn publishes a roundup of the most overused words people have in their profiles. The current top culprits: motivated, passionate and creative. Although some industries have other words that make the most-overused list — in the sales and talent fields, for instance, “strategic” is the big... |
Anything out of date. If you don’t update your resume often, it’s not the end of the world as long as you’re not looking for another job. LinkedIn is different, though; you have to approach it with the attitude that you’re always open to job-seekers, which means keeping your profile up-to-date in every way. |
Fibs, white lies and exaggerations. Just don’t. It’s so easy to fact-check almost anything about a person’s work history these days, this is almost guaranteed to be a fail. |
Emma Cline, author of The Girls. |
It would be hard for anyone to read with relative objectivity a book that was bought for $2 million. These millions are a major part of the promotion of Emma Cline's novel, key to its aura of exceptionality. With another book, you might ask yourself whether it was worth the $20 or $30 you paid for it. But the $2 millio... |
If the idea of a novel that draws on the real-life, brutal murders of Sharon Tate and her friends at the hands of followers of crazy person Charles Manson does not appeal, this is probably not the book for you. Even less so if you are not excited by the idea of using these appalling slayings as an opportunity to explor... |
You might be intrigued by the idea of exploring the darker side of the summer of love in sunny California and the ways in which an individual girl might be screwed up by toxic gender roles, but still find yourself thinking at the end of this novel that clearly it was hard to be a girl then, as now, and struggle against... |
Sharon Tate's murderers were girls, and it does seem worth asking what could possibly have moved a girl to do that. Cline's answer hinges on the sinister impact of gender ideology. We quickly learn that Evie, the middle-aged narrator who was 14 when she encountered the Manson Family-type cult, is not one of the killers... |
Evie's initial reflections on what it means to grow up as a girl have a piercing, truthful quality, rendering the small female tragedy of being taught over and over again how contingent your own worth is. "I waited to be told what was good about me," she writes. "All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles ... |
The novel cleaves fairly closely to the real story of the murders, and much of the outcome is known in advance. Russell never convincingly achieves the charisma — or, crucially, the villainy — that is attributed to him. The magnetic centre of the novel is Suzanne, the beautiful, damaged girl acolyte who first draws Evi... |
Advocates and lawmakers have proposed fixes for loopholes. But changes aren't imminent. |
Editor's note: This story was originally published in January 2017. Since then, Gov. Tom Wolf has pushed for action on legislation that would close some of these gun loopholes. And, on March 21, 2018, the state Senate unanimously approved Senate Bill 501, which would prohibit all defendants with final protection-from-a... |
Susan Hoke knew how to use a curtain rod to barricade a door – something she did on multiple doors in case her estranged husband, Scott Hoke, showed up. |
She changed locks and security codes at her Jackson Township home, because she feared he would hurt her, her children said. |
She told her 17-year-old daughter, who often went hunting, to keep a rifle in her room – just in case. Things were so bad that, more than once, her son, Robert Forry III, asked if she wanted Scott killed. |
“But she told me: We’re going to let the system handle it,” said Forry. |
But the system failed Susan's trust. |
Multiple times last summer, Susan Hoke turned to law enforcement and judges for protection against her husband. Police charged Scott Hoke with crimes. Judges ordered him to stay away from Susan and from the Jackson Township home where he once lived. |
But Scott Hoke had access to at least one gun despite laws designed to keep people like him from having one. State law gives judges the power to have ordered his guns be seized, but family members say firearms were not taken from him. |
On Sept. 12, Scott Hoke showed up at the Jackson Township home. Susan was getting ready to leave for work. Her 17-year-old daughter, Tiffany, was upstairs. |
“I just heard this screaming, like I’ve never heard before,” Tiffany said. |
Robert Forry III shows how his mother would barricade part of her Jackson Township house by wedging a curtain rod between the refrigerator and a door. Susan Hoke feared her estranged husband would come back to the home where he once lived, so she took precautions. She also turned to the legal system for help. "And I'll... |
When police arrived, they found both 50-year-old Susan and 42-year-old Scott Hoke dead. A handgun was still in Scott Hoke’s grip. |
In a Northumberland County case, Scott Hoke pleaded guilty on Aug. 17, 2016, to a third-degree misdemeanor, based on allegations that he physically abused Susan. Both federal and state laws say people convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence aren't allowed to possess firearms – although Pennsylvania laws g... |
Scott Hoke was placed on supervised probation for the criminal case in Northumberland County, where it’s a standard condition of probation that people can’t possess firearms. |
When a judge in York County approved a final protection-from-abuse order against Scott Hoke on Aug. 25, Scott was then covered by a federal firearms ban, according to multiple attorneys and law enforcement officials. But in Pennsylvania, judges aren't required to order someone to give up weapons, and they aren't requir... |
Todd Spivak, a Pittsburgh area attorney whose firm has represented both sides in PFA cases, said Pennsylvania's firearms loopholes can make the situation worse for people seeking protection. People with final PFA orders against them might feel vindictive for being "dragged through this process," he said. |
"The idea that a person in that situation would maintain the right to have firearms is a dangerous prospect," Spivak said. |
When one of Susan Hoke's daughters was pregnant a few years ago, Susan took her to doctor appointments. When that daughter, Kimberly Brown, was working, Susan would watch her young granddaughter. |
That was typical. Susan's three children – 27-year-old Brown; 24-year-old Forry; and Tiffany Hoke, now 18 – said she was always there for them. |
Tiffany was the only child Susan and Scott Hoke had together. In the summer when she was 17, her parents got into a fight that turned physical during a trip to a Northumberland County campground. |
Susan said Scott pulled her by the hair, and later grabbed her by the head and tried to slam her into a picnic table. Scott was charged with simple assault. "I'm tired of being treated this way all the time," Susan told Scott, according to the criminal complaint. Susan also applied for a protection-from-abuse order in ... |
In the Northumberland case, Scott received a probation sentence after pleading guilty to a reduced charge on Aug. 17. Still, that charge was a misdemeanor – and people convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence are supposed to immediately give up their firearms, according to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, To... |
Northumberland sentencing documents show Scott Hoke was ordered to attend anger management classes, but the documents do not mention firearms restrictions. |
It's a standard condition of probation that firearm possession is prohibited, said Brian Updegrove, a Northumberland County adult probation official. Probation employees generally tell people that others in their home can't keep guns there either, and they monitor the issue during home visits, Updegrove said. |
He provided limited information on Scott Hoke's probation supervision, but he said typically that type of case would be transferred to the person's home county. But he said Scott Hoke died early in the process. |
There is essentially a 30-day waiting period to transfer a case to another county if the sentence was decided by a district judge because of court requirements, according to Timothy Heitzman, chief probation officer in Northumberland County. |
The York County Department of Probation Services has no record of receiving a transfer request from Northumberland County for Scott Hoke or of being involved with him, according to York County's court administrator, Paul Crouse. |
Susan Hoke described the Northumberland incident and other abuse in her July 18 protection-from-abuse request. By this time, the couple was effectively separated. She said Scott Hoke had, in the past, pushed, grabbed and hit her and was emotionally and mentally abusive. |
Scott possessed a weapon or weapons, but he had not threatened her or minor children with them, Susan said in her PFA petition. Susan’s children later said he had more than a dozen guns, and he had been interested in them for hunting, collecting and protection. |
Susan did not request that a judge order firearms to be relinquished. But judges have the final say on that issue, according to Ellen Kramer, deputy director for program services at the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. |
A photo of Scott Hoke, which was shown to a reporter by one of his brothers, Kevin Hoke, in January. Kevin Hoke said firearms were never taken from Scott Hoke, and Kevin doubts Scott would have been able to get a gun from someone else if his guns had been seized. Police say Scott Hoke shot and killed his estranged wife... |
Temporary PFA orders, which are designed to last until there's time for a hearing with both sides, were approved on July 18 and July 28. Neither judge asked about firearms during those proceedings, according to transcripts, and neither ordered Scott to give up guns. |
Around this time, Susan's son moved into the Jackson Township home. He did it to help his mother with some bills, although she never asked for money, Forry said. |
At about 7 a.m. on Aug. 9, Forry heard a noise at the front door, according to a criminal complaint. |
Forry, who had recently finished a shift at an Utz facility, looked out a window and saw Scott Hoke outside the front door, he later testified. Forry walked upstairs to wake up Tiffany Hoke. When he went back downstairs, Scott was gone, Forry said. |
Susan hadn’t returned home from work yet, but Scott showing up at the house would still be a violation of the order. She spoke to Northern York County Regional Police. |
Scott denied showing up at the home, but the officer charged him with violating the PFA order, a criminal offense. |
State law says that after such an arrest, the police officer or sheriff shall seize all firearms, weapons and ammunition that were used or threatened to be used during the violation or during prior incidents of abuse. Guns weren’t involved in the original allegations of abuse or the PFA violation. |
But the law also calls for seizing “any other firearms in the defendant’s possession” after such an arrest. |
In PFA violation cases, York County Sheriff Richard Keuerleber said decisions about seizures fall on the arresting agency. |
The Northern York County Regional Police Department didn’t seize any weapons from Scott Hoke after making the PFA violation arrest. Chief Mark Bentzel said his department interprets the phrase “in the defendant's possession” to mean weapons people have with them at the time of arrest. But the department does not search... |
Before a hearing about the temporary PFA violation could take place, Susan and Scott Hoke on Aug. 25 reached a three-year agreement for a final protection-from-abuse order that covered both Susan and Tiffany. |
The order did not tell Scott to give up guns, although it did include standard language that warned him that if he possessed a firearm or ammunition while the order was in effect, he "may be charged with a federal offense." |
There has been debate in some legal circles over whether formally agreeing to a final protective order without admitting guilt, which is what Scott Hoke did, causes you to fall under the federal ban. The debate centers on how narrowly you define a hearing. |
But Freilich, the attorney with the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said Scott Hoke's case appears to meet key parts of the federal ban, including that he had an opportunity to participate in a hearing and that he was ordered not to use or threaten to use physical force against her. |
The Pennsylvania State Police, which operates a background check system, considers all final PFA orders to fall under the federal ban, according to spokesman Ryan Tarkowski. |
Samuel Gates, the attorney for Scott Hoke’s PFA case, said it's rare for people with a final PFA order against them to face criminal charges just for illegally possessing a weapon. |
In Scott Hoke's PFA case, firearms didn't come up as an issue, according to Gates. |
Kramer, with the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said Pennsylvania's system puts victims in a “really uncomfortable and dangerous position” because they have to tell the court whether they want guns seized. They have to worry about whether saying yes will mean they’ll face retaliation from their abuse... |
At a Sept. 2 hearing on the charge that Scott Hoke violated an earlier temporary PFA, Scott's parents said that on the morning in question, he arrived at their home, where he had been staying, at the usual time after work. |
Scott Hoke could have faced up to six months in jail. But Judge Richard K. Renn found him not guilty of violating the temporary PFA. Renn said "maybe it’s more likely than not" Scott violated the temporary PFA, but he had "difficulty concluding that beyond a reasonable doubt, which is the standard." |
Susan Hoke had often asked her son if he thought Scott would show up again. Forry thought Scott would have to be an idiot to do so. If he did, they knew now to just take a picture of him and contact police. |
“I don’t think he’s going to come back. ...I can’t promise you he’s not,” Forry recalled telling his mother. |
Susan still took precautions, her children said. She made plans to change her work shift, in part, so Scott wouldn’t know her schedule. |
But, overall, their mother seemed “happy, for once,” Brown said. |
But 10 days after the hearing, Scott Hoke returned to Susan's Jackson Township neighborhood at night, his vehicle parked away from the house but close enough to see the area, Forry said. Scott went to the house and went inside, leaving no sign of forced entry, police said. |
Forry believes Scott probably exploited a short window before his mother left for her late shift at Hanover Foods. Forry thinks his mother would have unlocked the front door and switched off the security alarm in order to let her dogs go outside, and not re-locked the door or reset the alarm until she left for the nigh... |
She heard screaming. Her mother yelled for her to lock her door. Her father went upstairs and banged on her door, telling her to open it. She heard him go back downstairs. |
Then she heard a gunshot. |
Tiffany tried to escape out an upstairs window. Before she made it out, her father got through her door, grabbed her and told her to go downstairs to the kitchen. |
Tiffany Hoke, 18, has a tattoo on her wrist with the year she was born and the year her mother, Susan Hoke, was born. Tiffany was at the Jackson Township home on Sept. 12, when Scott Hoke showed up. Scott shot and killed Susan, before killing himself, according to police. |
She saw her mother, already dead. |
Scott blamed his daughter for what he had done, then he threatened her, she said. |
“He had the gun to my head, told me he was going to kill me, too, and that it was my fault because I wouldn’t talk to him after we got the PFA,” Tiffany said. |
She tried to stall. Scott told her to call relatives to say goodbye. She told him her phone was upstairs. |
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