SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Anonymous hackers have targeted Twitter this week and gained access to roughly 250,000 user accounts though only “limited information” such as email addresses was compromised, the microblog said on Friday.Twitter has already reset passwords for affected users, and will notify them soon, it said in a blog post. The cyberattacks come days after the New York Times and the Wall...
Christina Ricci Engaged to James Heerdegen
Label: LifestyleCongrats are in order for Christina Ricci!The actress, 32, will soon tie the knot with boyfriend James Heerdegen, reports Us Weekly.Pics: 2012's 12 Most Amazing Couples
Ricci, after being spotted sporting what appeared to be an engagement ring in L.A., confirmed the happy news to the magazine.According to UsWeekly, Ricci and her now-fiancé became engaged "a couple months back."Video: Christina Ricci...
Career crook held on bail; allegedly targeted Asians
Label: Health A career crook wanted for targeting Asians in eight violent East Harlem muggings was ordered held on one of the alleged attacks today, with the rest remaining under investigation.Jason Commisso, 34, committed the eight attacks on Asian men and woman late last month, prosecutors say."The people are still investigating, as are the police, the hate crimes...
Who is Rick Ross? Shoot-’em-up raises new questions
Label: Business Rick Ross has always styled himself as a tough guy who grew up in Miami’s cocaine cowboy-like underworld, mingling with drug traffickers and armed outlaws. The successful rapper has powered his way to the top of the Hip Hop world with rhymes about his rags-to-riches life, scrapping for food while his mother worked three jobs. His critics and fellow rappers, however, have...
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Report shows health concerns in Broward’s black communities
Label: World A swath of low-income communities wedged between Interstate 95 and the Turnpike, and stretching from Fort Lauderdale to Lauderdale Lakes and Lauderhill, is home to the highest diabetes rates in Broward County.That’s one of the most troubling findings from a “state of black Broward health report’’ released Thursday by the Urban League of Broward County. The statistics, charts...
Online bingo shows its worth at Rank
Label: TechnologyLONDON (Reuters) – It may lack the noisy camaraderie of a trip to the bingo hall, but the online version of the numbers game has proved more profitable for Britain‘s Rank Group than the original.The merits of the online business were further emphasized when Rank said a snowy January had cost it 3 million pounds ($ 4.7 million) in revenue as Britons opted not to venture out to its bingo halls and casinos.Operating...
Man convicted in murder of pregnant ex-girlfriend
Label: Health A Queens man was convicted today for the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her toddler. Jimmy Humphrey was found guilty of strangling Linda Anderson to death and setting her lifeless body on fire. The fire ultimately killed her 2-year-old son, Aiden Hayes, as he searched for his mother through the smoke in their St. Albans apartment. "I'm not happy...
Mompreneur jumps into the ‘Shark Tank’
Label: Business It all started with a 4 a.m. email nearly a year ago: “Do you think a baby bib could change the world? I do...”Then Susie Taylor included a link to her website, bibbitec.com, and off it went to Shark Tank, the popular ABC television show where entrepreneurs pitch their companies to investors on the show — and by extension, 7 million viewers.Four months later, as the “mompreneur”...
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Miami cop fired for ‘unjustified’ shooting of unarmed man
Label: World A Miami police officer whose shooting of an unarmed motorist two years ago capped a string of fatal police encounters that sparked a public outcry and political upheaval was fired on Wednesday. The reason: A review board finding that officer Reynaldo Goyos used “unjustified” deadly force when he shot and killed Travis McNeil and wounded friend Kareem Williams as they sat...
Rape trial of teenaged football players to be open to public: Ohio judge
Label: Technology(Reuters) – The controversial trial of two high school football players accused of raping a classmate will remain open to the public and will not be relocated to another town, an Ohio judge ruled on Wednesday.Prosecutors and an attorney representing the accuser had sought a closed trial, arguing that public access to the juvenile trial would subject the accuser to unwanted publicity and make potential...
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