Only In NYC Could We Be Offered A $2,100 Apartment Still Rigged With A Grow Room
We were in Harlem, looking for an apartment, when we ran headlong into evidence of the New York City drug game. The broker met up with us outside an apartment complex. He had a trainee with him. The...
View Article'Real World' Star Settles With MTV Over Rape Claims
A year ago, Tonya Cooley filed a lawsuit against MTV claiming she was sexually abused by her cast mates during the Thailand season of "The Real World/Road World Challenge: The Ruins." Cooley, who...
View ArticleTwo Toddlers Allegedly Killed By Nanny In Upper West Side Tragedy
This is simply an unspeakable tragedy. From New York Post: A mother returned home to her luxury Upper West Side apartment on Thursday evening to find two of her children, a 2-year-old boy and a...
View ArticleAccused Cannibal Cop Considers Himself A 'True Gentleman'
The New York Police Department officer arrested yesterday on charges he planned to kidnap and cook at least 100 women, bragged about his manners and charm in an online dating profile. Gilberto Valle,...
View ArticleBritain Rejects US Request To Use UK Bases In Nuclear Standoff With Iran
Britain has rebuffed US pleas to use military bases in the UK to support the build-up of forces in the Gulf, citing secret legal advice which states that any pre-emptive strike on Iran could be in...
View ArticleMississippi School Charged With Arresting Kids For Flatulence, Wrong Color...
The Justice Department is taking a stand against an educational policy in Mississippi that incarcerates kids for just being kids. The department says in its lawsuit that officials in the city of...
View ArticleA Pennsylvania Jailbreaker Thought He Could Kayak To A Foreign Country To...
Paddling across the border is one way to escape prosecution — at least for a few weeks. Police finally caught up with 37-year-old Steven Pieczynski on Tuesday in Toronto after he broke out of a...
View ArticleGuy Who Claimed He Owned Half Of Facebook Arrested By The FBI
CNBC is reporting Paul Ceglia has been arrested by federal agents. Ceglia claims he signed a contract with Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 entitling him to large stake in the company. In its complaint against...
View ArticleOne Of These Die-Hard Conservatives Could Land On The Supreme Court If Romney...
The U.S. Supreme Court is greying. Four justices are older than 70, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg is pushing 80. There's an excellent chance one of these elders will step down in the next four years, and...
View ArticleComcast CEO Expresses Condolences To Exec Whose Children Were Murdered
After two toddlers were allegedly killed by their nanny during her own suicide attempt, Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts extended his condolences publicly on Friday. The children's father, Kevin Krim, is...
View ArticleA Lawyer Accused Of A Barroom Brawl Reveals What's Really Wrong With The...
An intellectual property lawyer who took the stand last month in his own criminal case and won is accusing the justice system of doing everything it can to find people guilty. Bryan Brooks was charged...
View ArticleA Silicon Valley Executive Was Just Charged With Tipping Off Raj Rajaratnam
The SEC has charged a Silicon Valley executive with tipping off Raj Rajaratnam about a stock short opportunity. The agency alleges Kris Chellam tipped Rajaratnam in December 2006 with confidential...
View ArticleWilliam Faulkner Estate Suing Sony Over Quote In 'Midnight In Paris'
"Midnight in Paris" won Woody Allen the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay this year, but not everyone was happy with the film. The estate of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning writer William Faulkner is...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman's Attorney Is Fighting For His Right To Keep Making Headlines
Does an attorney have the right to discuss material facts of a case in the media? During a nearly three-hour hearing, Forida prosecutors argued they don't, while George Zimmerman's lead attorney Mark...
View ArticleThe TSA Discovered 42 Guns, A Drug-Filled Grenade, And A 'Wheel Of Pain' This...
In its Week in Review, the TSA blog ran down the list of all the weapons it confiscated from passengers during security screenings in the past seven days. Of 42 guns found, 38 were loaded. Someone...
View ArticleThe Regulator That Busted Citi For The Facebook Info Leak Is Looking Into...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts' top securities regulator said on Friday that his office is looking into whether top Wall Street investment banks in addition to Citigroup have leaked research in...
View ArticleBusinessman Billed A Cold-Call Firm $13 For Every Minute They Wasted His...
Richard Herman, 53, was so upset with firms phoning him up and trying to sell him goods and services he decided to charge them for the time they took out of his day. He recorded the calls and then sent...
View Article'Greenish-Black' Material Tied To Meningitis Outbreak
Inspectors found "greenish-black foreign matter" in vials of supposedly sterile steroids meant for back pain injections at the Massachusetts company under investigation in connection with the nation's...
View ArticleTake A Tour Of Chicago's Bloodiest Summer
There's no denying it – Chicago became one of America's deadliest cities this year. The city is on track to record more than 433 homicides — the total for all of 2011, The Associated Press reported...
View ArticleHow 8 Famous Acquitted Defendants Spent The Rest Of Their Lives
OJ Simpson The beneficiary of one of history’s most famous not-guilty verdicts saw his legal luck run out after a 2007 armed robbery in Las Vegas. Simpson was convicted on 10 charges related to an...
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