Archive for August 2006
August 31st, 2006
Murdered woman’s MySpace gives glimpse into relationship:
CORPUS CHRISTI - The web site provider MySpace.com is everything from a communication tool to a personal diary. In this case, it provides a window inside the relationship between the late Lisa Rose and her boyfriend Chris Quartaro that ended so dramatically this morning. Quartaro shot Rose in the [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 6 comments
August 30th, 2006
The Vanishing Act:
This isn’t the first time I’ve taken on the topic of pro-eating disorder websites. With the explosion of sites like MySpace, Xanga, and LiveJournal and their refusal to do anything about it this “movement” is growing…
Faced with recrimination from the outside world, the pro-ana girls went underground. There are currently hundreds of pro-eating-disorder [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 8 comments
August 30th, 2006
Check from a scammer bounces victim into jail:
San Francisco resident Matthew Shinnick tried to sell a pair of mountain bikes on Craigslist late last year. He attracted a buyer, received a check in the mail — and ended up handcuffed by police in a downtown Bank of America branch and jailed for almost 12 hours.
Shinnick, [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 6 comments
August 30th, 2006
Job Corps student charged in threats:
A Job Corps student in Maine by the name of Edward Dexter has been arrested for posting threats on his LiveJournal…
BANGOR - A student at the Loring Job Corps Center was charged on Monday in U.S. District Court with threatening his fellow students and staff members at the training center [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 14 comments
August 29th, 2006
MySpace sex leads to charges:
A Portage man has been charged with sexual misconduct with a minor and child exploitation after he met a 15-year-old girl through MySpace and engaged in sexual activity that he videotaped, police said.
Jonathan Allen Miller, 18, of the 6500 block of Kandi Avenue, is accused of videotaping and taking digital [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 7 comments
August 29th, 2006
PIMP EYED IN 2ND SLAY:
New York police are looking at Jennifer Moore’s killer, Draymond Coleman, as a possible suspect in the murder of Chanel Petro-Nixon…
Police sources said there are similarities:
- Both girls were choked to death.
- Both had their pants pulled down, although Moore was raped while Petro-Nixon was not.
- Their bodies [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 4 comments
August 29th, 2006
Michigan Man Busted During MySpace Rondevous:
(CBS4) KEENE, N.H. A Michigan man is under arrest after he traveled to New Hampshire to allegedly meet someone he thought was 14-year-old boy he met online. That 14-year-old boy turned out to be Keene Detective Jim McLaughlin.
Jeremy Dale Stewart, 28, had been talking with the detective for two [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 3 comments
August 28th, 2006
Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly has been an ardent critic of MySpace. Now he’s turned his attention to Xanga…
AG Reilly called on Xanga to improve the safety and security of its site by:
Increasing the minimum user age from 13- to 18-years-old until Xanga institutes an age and identity verification system;
Responding to all reports of [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 1 comment
August 28th, 2006
Soldier pleads guilty to arranging tryst with teen using MySpace:
I originally talked about Jason Benge here…
A Fort Drum soldier charged with soliciting teens for sex using the popular website MySpace.com plead guilty to all charges this morning in Jefferson County court.
27-year-old Jason Scott Benge of Flower Avenue East plead guilty to charges of Criminal [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 1 comment
August 28th, 2006
Myspace suicide study:
From the “You’ve got to be kidding me” department or the “Only in Florida” department comes this story…
Tampa, Florida - Researchers at The University of South Florida want to study whether popular web sites like MySpace that have memorials and farewells to dead members prompt them to commit suicide.
Doctor Ilene Berson and [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 0 comments
August 27th, 2006
Father staples teen’s ear, leg:
MARTINSBURG — A Martinsburg man charged with felony child abuse Wednesday allegedly stapled his 16-year-old daughter’s ear and leg because she refused to give him her MySpace.com account password, according to court documents obtained by The Journal Thursday.
The name of the36-year-old man will not be published to protect the identity of [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 5 comments
August 27th, 2006
Pet snake taken by Animal Control:
Mecklenburg County Animal Control has confiscated a 90 pound snake living in a home near Freedom Park. The snake’s owner said he had the snake well controlled and it did not pose a danger to the community.
Neighbors first saw the python on their neighbor’s Myspace.com page. The page [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 1 comment
August 26th, 2006
I received the following e-mail from one Justin Melendez…
i have contacted my laywer and he will be activly persueing your company for slander charges i am giving you one week to remove my name from your site i was found not guilty the whole situation was made up my name is justin melendez and u [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 8 comments
August 26th, 2006
Message left on MySpace day of killing: “U win”:
The MySpace account of shooting victim Sherika Broussard could give some insight into the days before her death Friday.
Broussard was shot by Nathan O’Neil as she worked in the Victoria’s Secret stockroom at the Mall of Acadiana. Over the course of two days, a person with the [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 5 comments
August 26th, 2006
Information on Hospitalized Baby Found on MySpace:
I don’t know what to make of this one…
For five days a baby boy has been holding on in critical condition at Sunrise Hospital. Eyewitness News is now learning more about the infant.
Police and hospital staff have not been able to tell us much about how [...]
By Trench Reynolds -- 1 comment
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