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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal...

The Marin Humane Society is investigating allegations that a dog was fatally poisoned by alcohol and marijuana during an unsupervised juvenile party in Mill Valley. Tamalpais High School contacted authorities this week after picking up campus rumors about the dog's death at a large party in...

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lie detection is coming to a whole new level. Soon we will not have to rely on the work of individual agents to figure out who is just trying to get on a plane and who is a criminal mastermind in the making. Link Removed - Invalid URL Researchers at the University of...

More than 40 people were killed in Pakistan last week in a US drone attack near the Afghan border. The use of unmanned drones have always been controversial, but ex-CIA director Michael Hayden says they are winning the war. Ten years on from 9/11, al-Qaeda appears to be on the back foot. One...

Three men are in court after two allegedly secretly filmed their friend having sex with a woman, before threatening to release the footage if she complained. University of Westminster student George Iaponas, 24, met the victim via social networking site Facebook and she agreed to meet in...

A would-be robber who made a failed attempt to hold up a Jack in the Box restaurant was arrested when he returned to the same restaurant the next day, San Diego police said. The man walked in to the Jack in the Box on Wednesday and demanded cash from an employee, saying he had a gun. He had...

HERMINIE, Pa. — State police in Greensburg are investigating an unusual armed robbery at a Westmoreland County gas station. Trooper Stephen Limani said a man robbed the Buy 'n Fly in Herminie on Monday afternoon after wrapping himself in fabric to conceal his identity. "We're told he...

A man accused of robbing a Seattle convenience store at gunpoint last weekend might have earned points with its owner by being polite. But saying "sir" probably won't impress prosecutors or federal authorities who say they have supervised him since he wrapped up a prison term for an earlier...

You don't want to see how sausage gets made -- and you probably don't want to see how this sausage got stolen. Police in Florida arrested a man they say was captured on video stealing sausage naked. Investigators in Estero say Joshua Ryan Abernathy, 34, walked into the Mariner's Cove Club...

Neowin member, blogger and Microsoft Connect tester "tuxplorer" has posted an extensive list of features that have been removed from the transition from IE8 to 9 on his blog, and despite reporting these issues to Microsoft, he felt that his concerns weren't addressed. IE9 has received praise...

Link Removed due to 404 Error SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – An Idaho library has closed the book on a string of condiment attacks against its book-drop now that the ketchup-wielding criminal has been jailed, a Boise librarian said on Saturday. "We're relieved it's resolved; it's been going...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error PHOENIX (Reuters) – In a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border, authorities said.. The Mexican military seized 45 pounds of...

College Professor Accused of Urinating on Colleague's Door A California university professor videotaped urinating on a colleague's office door may be a scholar, but he's no gentleman, prosecutors say. Tihomir Petrov, a 43-year-old math instructor at California State University...

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Why are the feds trailing Moxie Marlinspike? By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author Posted in ID, 19th November 2010 19:25 GMT Link Removed - Invalid URL Last weekend, as US-based security researcher Moxie Marlinspike snoozed during a layover at the Frankfurt Airport...

"Not evil" Google fed up with street view, takes to the skies? Google, the company that has been spotted having talks with the CIA but is not evil and definitely has no agenda, and definitely does not have armed patrols around HQ in GoogleWagons, is starting to invest in relatively...

Link Removed It’s usually pretty rare to see female bank robbers unless you’re a big fan of Queen Latifah and have Set It Off playing in your house on a loop like a rapper on Cribs does with Scarface. But here’s something even more rare: Two girls, estimated between 12 and 16 years of age...

By now everyone has heard about the alleged secret agents arrested in the USA. If you haven't had a chance to read the criminal complaint against them, you're missing out on some interesting revelations. Revelation 1: Mission Completely Possible Unlike James Bond (or, heck. Austin Powers)...

In early March, Anthony Graber, a 25-year-old staff sergeant for the Maryland Air National Guard, was humming a tune while riding his two-year-old Honda motorcycle down Interstate 95, not far from his home north of Baltimore. On top of his helmet was a camera he often used to record his...