Meet The Ohio Nun Who Is Pleading Guilty To Voter Fraud
On Monday, the prosecutor’s office in Hamilton County, Ohio announced voter fraud charges against three people who voted in the 2012 presidential election. One allegedly voted on behalf of his deceased...
View ArticleAmazon's Latest Power Play Could Get It Sued By Angry Writers
Amazon's plans to buy up the new Web suffixes .book and .author could be a recipe for lawsuits from publishers and authors, Reuters reports.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...
View ArticleSpanx Is Embroiled In An Ugly Legal Battle With A 'Real Housewife'
Former "Real Housewife" and Yummie Tummy shapewear creator Heather Thomson is accusing Spanx of copying the design of some of her control tank tops. Thomson says that she plans to take legal action...
View ArticleOne Of The Most Cited Stats In The Gun Debate Is Really Out Of Date
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the numbers being hurled around in the gun control debate passed their freshness date eons ago. Perhaps none is more prominent than the claim that 40 percent of gun sales take...
View ArticleRand Paul Has Found A Brilliant Way For The GOP To Dodge The Gay Marriage...
Riding a wave of momentum from last week's 13-hour filibuster, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul appears to be on a one-man quest to remake the Republican Party in his libertarian image. This week, Paul took on...
View ArticleNew Lawsuit Alleges That Premium Job Board TheLadders Is A 'Scam'
Premium job site TheLadders is being sued in a New York federal court on allegations that the company promises users access to exclusive high-paying jobs that don't actually exist.Law firm Bursor &...
View ArticleTrial Begins For High School Football Rape Case That Shamed An Entire Town
The rape trial of two high school football players started today in a tiny Ohio town that idolizes the sport and the teenage boys who play it.The Steubenville, Ohio rape case has captured national...
View ArticleHow To Buy Any Illegal Drug You Want On The Secret Internet For Criminals
A website called the Silk Road appears to enable you to buy drugs as easily as you would buy an item on eBay.(We didn't actually complete a purchase.)We've previously reported on the Tor network, an...
View ArticleAaron Swartz's Girlfriend Accuses MIT Of Dragging Its Feet On Investigating...
On Tuesday night, MIT held a memorial for Aaron Swartz, the hacker, activist, and Reddit cofounder who took his own life in January.At the memorial, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Swartz's girlfriend,...
View ArticleHere's The FTC's Solution For Twitter Advertisers Who Can't Fit Legal...
The FTC has a solution for Twitter advertisers who have been freaking out at the idea of trying to squish legal disclaimers into tweets. Just use "Ad:" at the beginning of a tweet.Twitter launched a...
View ArticlePolice Kill Man Suspected Of Killing 4 In Upstate New York
Police have killed the man who shot six people, four of them fatally, in Upstate New York on Wednesday, according to New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.Kurt Myers, 64, was holed up in an abandoned sports...
View Article2-Year-Old Ate A Used Condom At A McDonald's Play Area, Mom Says
A Chicago mom says her 2-year-old ate a used condom he found at a McDonald's, and she's suing the fast food giant for allegedly failing to stop people from having sex in its play area.Anishi Spencer...
View ArticleBILL ACKMAN: Herbalife Looks Just Like A Company The Feds Accused Of Being A...
Activist investor manager Bill Ackman, the CEO of $12 billion Pershing Square Capital Management, has released a new presentation taking on Herbalife. Late last year, Ackman publicly announced that...
View Article7 Notorious Bank Robbers Who Got Away And Lived Happily Ever After
As much as we like to be assured that our money is sitting safely inside a bank vault, there’s something about the audaciousness of a bank heist that captures the imagination.Why else would there be so...
View ArticleThe Feds' Aggressive Case Against A 25-Year-Old 'Intelligence Geek' Could Set...
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning admitted in court last month that he fed the website Wikileaks a huge trove of classified military files.The document dump included thousands of files, some of which made the...
View ArticleA Group Of American Investors Say They're Living A Nightmare Since They Sold...
It's the worst case scenario for an investor: You make a deal and your counterparty refuses to pay. Time to go to Court.Terrible, of course, but a group of American investors are living a nightmare...
View ArticleMen Can Still Rape Their Wives In India After New Government Bill
Campaigners have criticised the Indian government after ministers cleared a new tougher anti-rape bill to curb widespread sexual violence against women - but failed to make marital rape a criminal...
View ArticleReuters Editor Indicted For Allegedly Conspiring With 'Anonymous' To Hack...
Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor at Reuters, has been charged in a Department of Justice Indictment for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group "Anonymous" to hack into a...
View ArticleHere's The Indictment Accusing A Reuters Editor Of Helping Hackers
Reuters' deputy social media editor Matthew Keys has been indicted for allegedly helping members of the group Anonymous hack into the website for Tribune Company.Here's the indictment filed today in...
View ArticleINDICTMENT: Reuters Editor Told Anonymous To 'Go F--- Some S--- Up'
Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor at Reuters, has been charged with helping Anonymous hack the Tribune's website.The allegations against Keys, a former web producer for a Tribune Co.-ownedTV...
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