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Link Removed due to 404 Error MOONACHIE — A substitute teacher from Rutherford was arrested Friday and charged with engaging in sexual conduct with an eighth-grade student from the Robert L. Craig School in Moonachie, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Patricia Gallegos...

If you’ve never downloaded and installed a leaked Windows 7 or Windows 8 build, you might not have seen the scary legalese in Microsoft’s license: “Unauthorized use or disclosure in any manner may result in disciplinary action.” In a nutshell, using pre-release builds is like Fight Club — you’re...

1. Amazon has just pulled the veil from its music locker-in-the-cloud system only to run into organizational and potential legal trouble. It's Sony Music this time , angry that Amazon's use of cloud streaming to clients is denying it potential royalty income. Amazon says "meh!" and alleges all...

SCOTTDALE, Pennsylvania — A man left his sleeping 4-year-old son home alone while he went outside and pretended to be a ninja warrior, police say. The Daily Courier of Connellsville reported that Ross Hurst was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police found him dressed...

A Fullerton man who secretly ejaculated twice into an attractive co-worker's water bottle — that she later drank from — was convicted Thursday of two counts of misdemeanor battery. After about two hours of deliberating, the seven-woman, five-man jury also found true a sentencing enhancement...

Stay away from Hersha Howard's Thin Mints! The Collier County woman was arrested Sunday after a savage beatdown of her roommate over a box of the delicious Girl Scout cookies that were apparently off limits to her kids, according to naplesnews.com. The brawl began when the 31-year-old...

Talk about lip service: Harlequin Enterprises, renowned publisher of pulp romance novels, has applied for a patent on the romantic kiss. The application, if granted, leaves open the possibility that we may one day have to pay a licensing fee to lock lips with the ones we covet. Don't start...

Look, I've been poking around this site for a bit now- not to mention about the web in general- and, I'm sure that somewhere, there might actually be a straight-forward answer to this (no doubt here-but, again, I couldn't seem to find it)- so, please forgive me for what is probably (yet another)...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error Reuters – Tarantula's confiscated by the U.S. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A German national who shipped hundreds of live tarantulas into the United States through the mail has pleaded guilty to a federal smuggling charge...

Mystery surrounds Idaho winner of $190 million - Washington Times Link Removed RATHDRUM, Idaho (AP) — Holly Lahti burst into the spotlight a week ago in a feel-good story about a single mother who won a $190 million Mega Millions jackpot. Then came the mugshot: a thin young woman...

Pair of Women to Sue Dr. Phil For Locking Them in House With Naked Dude January 10th, 2011 Several women are suing TV doctor personality Dr. Phil, claiming he traumatized them by trapping them in a house and forcing them to look at a naked man. Somewhere, Brett Favre is jealous he...

Pantless Man Allegedly Asks Drive-Thru Worker to Hold His 'Whopper' Link Removed - Invalid URL Longmont Police Department Police in Longmont, Colo., say Richard Troupe, 52, exposed his genitals to an employee at a Burger King drive-thru and asked her to hold his "whopper." After...

Link Removed Lucky Dog: A dog plays in the snow on the Great St. Bernard Pass between Switzerland and Italy GENEVA - A Swiss village has found a drastic way to compel dog holders to pay their pet's annual tax: cough up, or the dog gets it. Reconvilier - population 2,245 humans, 280...

Having bought my Aspire7535G from Acer in Jan 2010 preinstalled with Vista OEM I was thrilled when a month later my free upgrade to Win7 arrived. However, what I wasn`t so thrilled with was that it only contained the 32 bit Home version. Acer were very happy to extol the merits of their 64bit...

Drunk couple make 13-year boy their designated A California couple have been arrested for child endangerment and contributing to the delinquency of a minor after they let their 13-year-old boy drive them home after they got drunk at a family restaurant. Police officers found the...

Apple has threatened a Dutch tablet manufacturer with a lawsuit about the name nPad. The Dutch Windows 7 tablet is no longer available, and is looking for a new name. Link Removed - Invalid URL

MANATEE — A search of a 25-year-old man following a traffic stop Wednesday morning revealed one bag of marijuana and one bag of cocaine in the driver’s buttocks, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. The driver said only the marijuana belonged to him. Raymond Stanley Roberts was...

This story combines two topics that really piss us off, bad cops and bad teachers. I guess the good news is that the teachers were not trying to molest the poor kid. Watch how this snowballs from one bad decision after another. Link Removed Apparently this poor kid with autism wanted to go to...

We don’t live with Facebook so much as Facebook lives with us. You may think the simple socialnetworking tool is ours to command, but Facebook can have a much bigger impact on your life than you may have thought. Sure, it may make it easier to keep up to date on your favorite worm-themed...

I wish to obtain a copy of Windows 98SE so I can play my older games that don't work on Windows 7. Most notably Jane's Combat Simulations USAF. Microsoft is no longer allowed to distribute Windows 98 because of some deal they made with Sun Microsystems (apparently you can get OSes like MS-DOS...