HELENA, Mont. — Job applicants with the city of Bozeman are finding that their private Internet discussions and pictures may not be so private after all.
The city is asking job seekers for the user names and passwords to Internet social networking or Web groups to which they belong. The decision is sparking an outcry from those who say the policy goes way too far.
The issue has spawned hundreds of comments on Web forums and sharp… Continue
A Brooklyn pastor was busted in his native Jamaica for having sex with a 15-year-old girl while a 14-year-old watched, authorities said yesterday.
The Rev. Paul Lewis, founder of the Messengers for Christ Ministries World Healing Center, was held without bail on charges of carnal abuse and indecent assault, Jamaican police said.
The Bedford-Stuyvesant evangelist was arrested Wednesday after witnesses saw him hanging out with the girls and then taking them to a… Continue
SAN FRANCISCO - Marijuana smoke has joined tobacco smoke and hundreds of other chemicals on a list of substances California regulators say cause cancer.
The ruling Friday by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment likely will force pot shops with 10 or more employees to post warnings.
Final guidelines are expected by the time warning requirements take effect in a year.
"Q" owner of WorldStarHipHop has "Worked with the government in the past on helping solve criminal cases" This clip was taken from Fox News. What's funny is WorldStarHiphop.com posted this video, but edited some of it taking out the clip that is repeated saying he has worked for the government in the…
What, were all the "Check out my racket" shirts sold out?
Serena Williams directed attention to her incredible body of work yesterday while jogging in Wimbledon. In case you're wondering, she has 20 Grand Slam titles -- 10 single, 8 women's doubles and 2 mixed doubles.
She's a top performer.
A pair of pimps used Craigslist to trick two aspiring models to travel to New York, where they were forced to turn tricks at a midtown hotel, police said Thursday.
The pimps - Jason Breska, 38, of Brooklyn and Sabina Rabinovich, 36, of Florida - trolled the popular Internet classified site and fooled the women into thinking they ran a modeling agency, police said.
They promised their victims glamorous modeling careers and health… Continue
Any day the Rev. Al Sharpton can walk out of a room full of cops without getting handcuffed is a good one, he quipped after talking to the NYPD's newest recruits on Thursday.
Sharpton was one of half a dozen police critics asked to speak to the latest class of 262 new officers, due to graduate and hit the streets July 2.
"To me, it's always successful to be in a room full of police and not leave with my hands in cuffs," Sharpton… Continue
Timbaland and Nelly Furtado are being sued for their hit single 'Do It', for alleged copyright infringement.
The song appeared on Furtado's 2006 album 'Loose' and enjoyed worldwide success, but a Finnish composer is claiming the song copies a track he made earlier.
A lawsuit filed by Kernel Records Oy, suggests 'Do It' uses the "original and central identifying melodic, harmonic and rhythmic components" of the song 'Acidjazzed… Continue
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida city is cleaning up with a new dress code that requires city workers to wear underwear and use deodorant. The city council in Brooksville north of Tampa recently approved a dress code that instructs employees to observe "strict personal hygiene."
It also prohibits exposed underwear, clothing with foul language, "sexually provocative" clothes and piercings anywhere except the ears.
Determined to drive evil spirits out of her daughter, a Queens mom performed a bizarre voodoo fire ritual that left the 6-year-old girl scarred for life, prosecutors say.
While young Frantzcia Saintil was "engulfed in flames," Marie Lauradin let the screaming girl burn, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Thursday.
The girl told cops "the flames crawled up her body and burned her," the criminal complaint… Continue
Babysitter-of-the-year Kevin Federline blew some of the $30K Britney's paying him to watch the kids this month on a quality dinner in London last night -- at the local Hard Rock Cafe.
Federline rolled into the joint with the bodyguard seen in the photo -- plus his GF and a personal nanny to help with little Sean Preston and Jayden James.
It's great to see K-Fed finally holding down a… Continue
MINNEAPOLIS – A replay of the nation's only file-sharing case to go to trial has ended with the same result — a Minnesota woman was found to have violated music copyrights and must pay huge damages to the recording industry.
A federal jury ruled Thursday that Jammie Thomas-Rasset willfully violated the copyrights on 24 songs, and awarded recording companies $1.92 million, or $80,000 per song.
Nas -- who is trying to stonewall his pregnant, estranged wife Kelis from collecting a shred of spousal support -- ironically just blogged about the importance of protecting family and "our woman."
Nas writes on Global Grind: "Right now I'm shouting out to real dads. Some are great role models with real academic achievements. Some are not ... We deserve the love!!! We put up with everything, standing true to what's… Continue
This is a first ... a 911 call asking for an exorcism specialist. The dude who made the 911 call for "Rock of Love 2" "star" Daisy de la Hoya said Daisy was making all sorts of Linda Blair moves. The fire department listed the call as "possible overdose," which Daisy later denied.