St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is abandoning his suit against Twitter, filed in May because the microblogging site failed to take down an impostor’s…
A judge in New Jersey superior court ruled last week that Shellee Hale of Washington state is not protected by New Jersey shield laws for her posts on an online…
A pending settlement between Google Inc. and groups representing authors and publishers could violate antitrust law, the U.S. Department of Justice says in a letter to the federal judge in…
Defense counsel for an attorney and former New Jersey lawmaker accused in a child pornography case must be given access to the images allegedly found on Neil Cohen’s computers, a…
A federal judge in Los Angeles reportedly has said he intends to acquit a Missouri mother accused of helping to drive a neighboring teen to suicide by participating in a…
A California appeals court has ruled that MySpace isn’t liable for the rapes of teenage girls who were assaulted by men they had met on the social networking site.
His alleged 96-character message on Twitter warning depositors not to keep their money in a Guatemalan bank has already put Jean Anleu in jail briefly.
Yesterday’s arrest of a so-called hate blogger for allegedly posting material on the Internet that threatened the lives of three federal judges in Chicago is sparking debate about permissible political…
Blogger and occasional Internet talk show host Harold Charles “Hal” Turner was arrested by federal agents today at his New Jersey home on charges that he threatened on his website…
A 71-year-old songwriter and movie director known for his Oscar-winning 1977 pop tune You Light Up My Life has been charged with sexually assaulting 11 young women he allegedly lured…
Rescinding a controversial hiring policy that one commissioner called “a gross invasion of privacy,” the governing body of Bozeman, Mont., voted yesterday that its human resources department would no longer…
A West Bloomfield, Mich., man who a federal prosecutor described as “the world’s most notorious illegal spammer” has pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering.
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