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July 3, 2008
Jeff Taylor, the founder of online job site Monster. com, is now touting his latest Internet project: online obituaries. Taylor said his newest venture, Tributes. com, is aimed at moving death notices from the newspaper to the Internet. Unlike Legacy. com, which is owned partly by the Tribune Co. and receives fees from 650 newspapers to publish online death notices, Taylor intends to obtain obituaries directly from funeral homes and earn revenue by selling advertising, among other ways.
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July 2, 2008
Topics sex, police, hotel, business, body, charges, women, world, people, woman, man and prostitutes
To further illustrate the way rising gas prices are effecting people all over the world, police say a woman arrested in Northern Kentucky for soliciting prostitution was trading sex for gasoline. A sex sting operation by police was in effect at a Days Inn Hotel when Angela R. Eversole, 34, was arrested along with four other women for selling sex. After further investigation, police found that rather that trading sex for cash, Eversole bartered her body for $100 gas card and other gifts.
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July 2, 2008
Topics bank, computers, route, owned, fbi, personal, computer, internet, security, charges, people and web
Three people are in U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on charges they stole ATM PIN numbers enabling them to grab at least $2 million from Citibank checking and savings accounts. Although the extent of the breach is unknown, the alleged crooks pilfered the PINs between October 2007 and March when bank customers used ATMS inside an unknown number of 7-Eleven stores. Around 5,700 Citibank ATMs are located in U. S. 7-Elevens. However, the bank neither owns or operates the automatic tellers.
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June 30, 2008
A U. S. official said that two medical choppers collided in mid-air killing at least six passengers, and leaving one in critical condition in Arizona. Authorities said the incident occurred near a hospital in Flagstaff, around 3:45 p. m. local time on Sunday, when both helicopters were on their way to the hospital.
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June 30, 2008
Topics dog, wolf, philippines, hearts, pigs, target, sheep, jesus, owned, animals, dogs, university, children, city and people
Villagers at a southern Philippine community reported that a ghoul has killed their livestock. Panicked local residents at Barangay (village) Lower Manongol in Kidapawan City, southern Philippines say that a ghoul, which takes a human form by day but turns into a blood-sucking and flesh-eating monster as darkness falls, was responsible for the killing of three goats who were seen without its inner organs, including hearts and livers.
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