A 20-year-old Minnesota man who killed a woman he lured to his home with a fake Craigslist ad was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole yesterday.
According to news reports, in October 2007, the victim, Katherine Olson, 24 years old, responded to a help-wanted ad for a babysitter. She arrived to find [...]
Fri, April 3 2009 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
Why is it so hard for me to keep this site updated, when I blog and Twitter at work all day long? A brief sampling, more of which can be found on my clips page: ViddyHo, Yelp, Facebook, Pirate Bay, Apple, Twittering advertisers during the Super Bowl, Caribou’s jab at Starbucks, Yahoo and Google earnings, [...]
Wed, February 25 2009 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
was this (emphasis added):
In recent years, South Carolina installed X-ray machines and metal detectors at all of its medium- and maximum-security prisons. While that stopped visitors and staffers from smuggling in phones, Mr. Gelinas said, handsets are now being thrown over the fence in packages, attached to footballs and even shot onto prison grounds from [...]
Wed, November 26 2008 » Wall Street Journal » No Comments
For some time, banks and credit-card companies have been warning computer users about so-called phishing emails that link to counterfeit Web sites where customers are asked to enter their account numbers and other personal information.
Now, savvy con artists are adding a new twist dubbed “vishing.”
Customers of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust recently received emails telling [...]
Mon, July 17 2006 » Wall Street Journal » Comments Off
Rashawn Brazell would have turned 20 in April. Instead of a celebration, his birthday was marked with candlelight vigils and town hall meetings.
By then, his February murder had faded from headlines. But a growing number of New York-area bloggers, many of them African-American and gay, like Brazell, are keeping his memory, and the search for [...]
Tue, May 24 2005 » Newsday » No Comments
