New Yorker Writer Slams 'Vigilantes' Who Shamed An Entire Town After A...
The hacker group Anonymous has been credited with "helping" a 16-year-old rape victim in Steubenville, Ohio, but The New Yorker has a new story suggesting "vigilantes" may have done more harm than...
View ArticleUnderemployed Law Grads Find A Silver Lining After Losing A Huge Lawsuit...
A federal appeals court has dismissed a case filed by Thomas M. Cooley graduates claiming the school misreported job statistics, but their lawyer says they're still happy they sued.Despite the loss,...
View ArticleProsecutor May File A Criminal Complaint Against Facebook Over 14-Year-Old's...
A prosecutor in Italy is considering filing criminal charges against Facebook for allegedly failing to remove content that may have led to a 14-year-old girl's suicide, CNN reports.Carolina Picchio...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman Was Pulled Over By Texas Police For Speeding
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, a volunteer watchman whose acquittal in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin led to protests, was pulled over by police in Texas on...
View ArticleLawyer Appointed For Two Men Who Allegedly Held A Teenage Girl Captive On...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal judge appointed defense lawyers on Wednesday to represent two men accused of holding a teenage girl captive on their marijuana farm and locking her inside an...
View ArticleSmall-Town Police Departments Are Getting Billions In Big Military Hardware
In Iraq and Afghanistan, you'll find U.S. troops with M16 rifles, Humvee trucks, and high-tech surveillance equipment, but that military hardware is increasingly showing up in small-town police...
View ArticleSan Diego's Mayor Claims He Never Received Sexual Harassment Training, So The...
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, under mounting pressure to resign over sexual harassment accusations, deserves to have the city pay for his defense because he never received workplace...
View ArticleProsecutors Lay Out The Horrific Case Against Cleveland Kidnapper Ariel Castro
The man who held three women captive in his Cleveland house for about a decade is expected to be sentenced Thursday to life in prison, and prosecutors have released a memorandum that lays out the...
View ArticleDiaries Of Chained Kidnap Victims Detail Horrible Abuses At Hands Of...
Diaries kept by three young women held captive for a decade in an Ohio home helped US prosecutors describe their suffering in a memo released ahead of their tormentor's sentencing hearing Thursday.The...
View ArticleSweden's 'Worst Serial Killer' Has All 8 Of His Murder Convictions Overturned
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped the last remaining charges against a man who was once considered Sweden's worst serial killer, but whose eight murder convictions were overturned after...
View ArticleNow We Can All Be Strangled By This Replica Of Nigella Lawson's Ex, Charles...
Charles Saatchi is known for co-founding ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi, collecting contemporary art, and more recently, choking his now ex-wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, in a London...
View ArticleFormer Marine Admits He's 'An Idiot' For Plotting To Decapitate A Judge And...
On the eve of his sentencing, a former Marine wrote an apology letter to the two federal employees he admitted to plotting to kill, The New York Daily News reported.Dejvid Mirkovic, 38, arranged to pay...
View ArticleIt's Human Nature To Spread Hysterical Lies About Crime
Ariel Levy's new piece in The New Yorker about the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case has a lot of smart things to say about rape culture, rumor-mongering, and the sometimes iffy motives that are often...
View ArticleInside The House Where Cleveland Kidnapper Ariel Castro Held 3 Women For A...
During Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro's sentencing hearing on Thursday, prosecutors revealed photos that give the world a glimpse inside the home where he held three women for a decade.Castro pleaded...
View ArticleSecurity Camera Captures Footage Of A Hilarious Failed Robbery At A Legal...
I just returned from Colorado, where I met with entrepreneurs and activists that are on the ground floor of the soon-to-be-legal marijuana economy. While over there, I met with Dan Williams at Canna...
View ArticleCleveland Kidnapping Victim To Ariel Castro: 'I Spent 11 Years In Hell. Now...
Michelle Knight, one of the women held captive for about a decade in Ariel Castro's Cleveland home, faced her kidnapper in court Thursday and gave an incredible statement during his sentencing...
View ArticleTerrorism Task Force Agents Show Up At Journalist's Home Over Google Searches...
Freelance journalist Michele Catalano received a friendly visit at her Long Island home from six agents from a joint terrorism task force on Wednesday morning.She thinks it was related to her online...
View ArticleFurious White House Blasts Russia Over Edward Snowden: 'Mr. Snowden Is Not A...
The White House said Thursday that it is "extremely disappointed" in Russia's decision to grant National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden temporary asylum in the country, casting it as a...
View ArticleRemorseless Cleveland Kidnapper Tries To Justify Monstrous Crimes, Sentenced...
Ariel Castro stood in court Thursday during his sentencing hearing and insisted that he's not a violent predator and that the sex his three victims were subjected to over the course of their...
View ArticleUruguay Is Close To Becoming The First Country With A State-Controlled...
Uruguay has effectively sealed the passage of a groundbreaking marijuana legalization bill that puts production, distribution, and sale of the drug in the hands of the state, making it the first...
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