A Missouri woman was indicted today on federal fraud and conspiracy charges for her alleged role in orchestrating a cruel MySpace hoax against a teenage girl who later committed suicide.
Federal prosecutors today are expected to announce criminal charges in the "cyber-bullying" case involving Megan Meier, the 13-year-old Missouri girl who committed suicide last year following a heartless online hoax engineered by the mother of one of her friends.
The key witness in the Megan Meier case is a 19-year-old woman who has admitted setting up a fake MySpace page at the direction of a Missouri woman who sought to secretly determine whether Meier was "saying bad things" about
Tomorrow night, I'll be hanging out with the cool students at Stanford, giving a talk on Asian images in the media, this website, and all sorts of other fun stuff. Thursday, May 15, 5:30-7:30pm at A3C Ballroom. I'm told there
Hmong Hip-Hop Heritage: The New York Times has a really interesting video segment on Hmong American history/culture and Tou Saiko Lee, a Hmong American rapper out of Minnesota who shares and keeps his heritage alive through a mix of hip
In Gardena, California, a $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of two men who fatally shot 51-year-old Hae Sook Roh while robbing her t-shirt shop: Reward offered in slaying of Gardena shop owner. Store surveillance
Check this out... you could be in the next Transformers movie. Yes, Michael Bay and Co. are currently working on the sequel. It looks like they'll be filming in the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania area next month, and they're looking for Asian
Check out the music video for Scott Tang's "Sublingual." It's directed by Karen Lin, who did the videos for Kelly Tsai's Bystanding and Seriously's Irony. This one's completely different, but still a beautifully shot piece, with some attractive people, telling
St. Olaf College senior Andrew Foxwell founded a marketing company with the help of a $3,000 Finstad Entrepreneurial Grant and has transformed it into a business that is on track to make $10,000.
Thanks now to Weronika Hansen for her update:From KUL website:Born 25 May 1921 in Berezowica Mała in Podole. Fell asleep in the Lord while correcting the article "Christianity" 8 May 2008 in Lublin.The coffin with the body of Fr Krąpiec
In a deeply conservative Mississippi congressional district, one where George W. Bush won by 25 points in 2004 and ex-Congressman and now Senator Roger Wicker never won with less than 63%, a Democrat named Travis Childers came within 410 votes
Inocencia Galpasoro was jailed last week. She was jailed because she failed to condemn, in public , an assassination in her home town. Isaias Carrasco, a former Socialist councillor, was shot outside his home on March 7, just two days
Noe Ramon Lopez, a West Fresno Norteo, fired several shots from a revolver into a car where Angelo Gonzales, an Eastside Fresno Bulldog, and Farrah Brown were sitting. Gonzales died. Brown suffered serious injuries. A jury found Lopez guilty of
