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Now a small, paid death notice in Saturday's Los Angeles Times announces that Orrin died on April 9. Major media coverage of Orrin's passing is sure to come, but for the time being our blog is one of few sites carrying this news. Please join us in mourning the loss of one of the last living leaders of the big band era.
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That was a great day:
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If this item is any indication, there may be a future for big bands among young people after all:
By TERESA AUCH SCHULTZ
Sun-Times Media
Apr 14, 2011
The incident came to light Friday when the girl, a freshman at Portage High School, told Principal Caren Swickard about the threat. The boy in question, who is not being named, told Swickard and police that his saxophone broke and the band director told him that because the girl didn’t use hers, to have her give him her saxophone, police said.
When she wouldn’t, the boy said he reminded the girl he had the picture of her, police said. The boy allowed police to look at his phone, which had nude pictures of a 15-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl. The original girl’s mother said she had discovered the nude pictures about a month or two ago and forced her daughter to erase them and that her daughter had asked the suspect to delete them.
The other girl said she had sent nude pictures of herself to several other boys at other schools in Lake and Porter counties and she did so because she had low self-esteem.
The boy was arrested and taken to the Porter County Juvenile Detention.
Teen threatens to post nude photo of girl unless she gives him her saxophone
By TERESA AUCH SCHULTZ
Sun-Times Media
Apr 14, 2011
A Northwest Indiana high school student is facing a charge of possessing child pornography after a fellow student accused him of threatening to post a nude picture of her if she didn’t give him her saxophone, police said.
The incident came to light Friday when the girl, a freshman at Portage High School, told Principal Caren Swickard about the threat. The boy in question, who is not being named, told Swickard and police that his saxophone broke and the band director told him that because the girl didn’t use hers, to have her give him her saxophone, police said.
When she wouldn’t, the boy said he reminded the girl he had the picture of her, police said. The boy allowed police to look at his phone, which had nude pictures of a 15-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl. The original girl’s mother said she had discovered the nude pictures about a month or two ago and forced her daughter to erase them and that her daughter had asked the suspect to delete them.
The other girl said she had sent nude pictures of herself to several other boys at other schools in Lake and Porter counties and she did so because she had low self-esteem.
The boy was arrested and taken to the Porter County Juvenile Detention.
Hey, at least he asked for a saxophone, not an electric guitar.
