Stories to remember from 2007 (continued 2)

Club, county reach a truce Felix Villa, owner of Lee County's only strip club, Heartbreakers, hauled the County Board before a federal judge, alleging in his civil suit that it violated his constitutional rights by imposing ever-tougher zoning and liquor licensing regulations aimed solely at shutting him down. Before the court issued a ruling, Villa and the board struck a compromise, creating a new $30,000-per-year liquor license that allows the club on U.S. Route 30 to serve alcohol and packaged liquor and have topless dancers, while creating an industrial zoning "for the purpose of adult entertainment." Lee County officials said they will use the new license as a tool to ensure that Heartbreakers is following the rules. The compromise end