Twitter Goes Gangster: NY Thugs Plot Street War in 140 Characters or Less
(CBS/AP)
Police are catching on to the trend and are monitoring Twitter in the hopes of preventing further violence, according to the New York Daily News.
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December 3, 2009 7:00 AM NEW YORK - New York City gangs are fighting on an unlikely new turf - Twitter. Police say young thugs have taken to the popular Web site to plot attacks and fuel violence - all in 140 characters or less.
Police are catching on to the trend and are monitoring Twitter in the hopes of preventing further violence, according to the New York Daily News.
Police are catching on to the trend and are monitoring Twitter in the hopes of preventing further violence, according to the New York Daily News.
November 19, 2009 8:17 AM 
NEW YORK - Rodney Bradford, a 19-year-old New Yorker, has Facebook and a desire for pancakes to thank for his freedom.
Police had pegged Bradford as the man responsible for robbing two men at gunpoint Oct. 17 in the Brooklyn housing project where he lives. Bradford spent 12 days in jail on Riker's Island pleading his innocence, but it wasn't until his family produced a Facebook update message Bradford wrote on his father's computer in Harlem - eight miles from the holdup - that police were willing to listen.
Facebook Alibi Frees Brooklyn Man Rodney Bradford from Jail
(CBS/Lisa Riordan Seville)
Police had pegged Bradford as the man responsible for robbing two men at gunpoint Oct. 17 in the Brooklyn housing project where he lives. Bradford spent 12 days in jail on Riker's Island pleading his innocence, but it wasn't until his family produced a Facebook update message Bradford wrote on his father's computer in Harlem - eight miles from the holdup - that police were willing to listen.
November 10, 2009 3:41 PM 
Story contributed by 48 Hours Mystery special consultant Paul Ciolino.
NEW YORK - The Elizabeth Lambert video, which is making the rounds, is a fascinating inside look at Woman’s Division One Soccer. I’m not sure that if this were Division One men’s soccer anyone would be making a fuss. Because we have an attractive and I might add aggressive female player this has become a phenomenon.
Elizabeth Lambert Video: Attractive, Aggressive, Suspended... Victim?
(AP/YouTube Video)
NEW YORK - The Elizabeth Lambert video, which is making the rounds, is a fascinating inside look at Woman’s Division One Soccer. I’m not sure that if this were Division One men’s soccer anyone would be making a fuss. Because we have an attractive and I might add aggressive female player this has become a phenomenon.
October 13, 2009 5:23 PM 
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Playboy playmate Shauna Sand has made it very clear that she doesn't want you to watch her illicit sex tape, "Shauna Sand Exposed," which features bedroom footage distributed without her permission.
She, of course, doesn't mind you seeing her naked images in Playboy, the thousands of pictures of her galavanting in three-dimensionally stretched spandex outfits at celebrity parties or micro-bikini shots in the pages of gossip magazines.
But please don't watch her sex tape.
"Shauna Sand Exposed" Video: Vivid Has "No Right" to Release Sex Tape, Says Playmate (Pictures)
(Vivid Video)
She, of course, doesn't mind you seeing her naked images in Playboy, the thousands of pictures of her galavanting in three-dimensionally stretched spandex outfits at celebrity parties or micro-bikini shots in the pages of gossip magazines.
But please don't watch her sex tape.
October 13, 2009 8:40 AM 
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Playboy Playmate Shauna Sand has made several sex tape videos, but she sure didn't want you to watch them!
Now, Sand is seeking to take legal action against a film distribution company over the release of a sex tape featuring the model and her boyfriend. The busty blonde claims an explicit video set to be released by Vivid Entertainment has been acquired illegally and the company's bosses have no legal right to distribute the racy footage.
Playboy Model Shauna Sand Made Sex Tapes for Herself, Not for You! (Pictures)
(MySpace Photo)
Now, Sand is seeking to take legal action against a film distribution company over the release of a sex tape featuring the model and her boyfriend. The busty blonde claims an explicit video set to be released by Vivid Entertainment has been acquired illegally and the company's bosses have no legal right to distribute the racy footage.
October 6, 2009 1:52 PM 
NEW YORK - Was Stephanie Birkitt, 34, romantically involved with David Letterman and his alleged extortionist, Robert "Joe" Halderman at the same time?
If you believe a report in today's New York Post, the long-time Letterman staffer, whose secret diary police say is at the center of an alleged extortion plot against the late night king, was indeed two-timing the man now accused of threatening to reveal Letterman's office sex trysts unless he coughed up $2 million.
Report: Stephanie Birkitt (Pictures) Involved With Letterman and Alleged Extortionist at Same Time
(CBS)
If you believe a report in today's New York Post, the long-time Letterman staffer, whose secret diary police say is at the center of an alleged extortion plot against the late night king, was indeed two-timing the man now accused of threatening to reveal Letterman's office sex trysts unless he coughed up $2 million.
October 5, 2009 6:06 PM NEW YORK (CBS/AP) - The pages of Stephanie Birkitt's personal diary were presumably not meant for the eyes of her former lover, David Letterman, or a recent one, long-time CBS News producer Robert "Joe" Halderman.
But it was pages copied from the diary, that were the centerpiece of Halderman's plan to extort $2 million from the late night king, threatening to expose his office sexcapades if he did not comply, according to law enforcement officials.
Stephanie Birkitt (Photo) Secret Diary at Center of Letterman Sex Extortion, Say Cops
(CBS)
But it was pages copied from the diary, that were the centerpiece of Halderman's plan to extort $2 million from the late night king, threatening to expose his office sexcapades if he did not comply, according to law enforcement officials.
October 5, 2009 11:26 AM 
NEW YORK - An attorney for Robert "Joe" Halderman, the CBS producer accused of extorting David Letterman over the talk show host's sexual affairs, says he wants to put the late night king on the stand.
"I look forward to cross-examining David Letterman," Gerald Shargel told Ann Curry on the "Today Show" Monday.
Robert "Joe" Halderman's Attorney Wants to Put David Letterman on Stand in Sex Extortion Case
(CBS)
"I look forward to cross-examining David Letterman," Gerald Shargel told Ann Curry on the "Today Show" Monday.
October 1, 2009 6:00 AM 
PHOENIX - So many these days can relate to the distress of losing a home, but neighbors in one north Phoenix neighborhood are struggling to understand why one man’s struggle had to end the way it did.
Police said the problems started Tuesday when two men drove to a house near 31st Avenue and Sandra Terrace and told the man there that they’d just purchased the home at auction.
Foreclosed Forever: Man Shot by Cops After House Auctioned Off
(AP / CBS)
Police said the problems started Tuesday when two men drove to a house near 31st Avenue and Sandra Terrace and told the man there that they’d just purchased the home at auction.
September 28, 2009 12:00 PM 
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. - A body found Sunday in the Hudson River likely is that of a woman who jumped from the Tappan Zee Bridge last week, 15 years after her stepfather leaped to his death from the bridge following a brutal family killing, police said.
State Police Sgt. Todd Parent said they believe the body belongs to Anne Morell Petrillo, a daughter of slain newspaper heiress Anne Scripps Douglas, the great-great-granddaughter of The Detroit News founder James E. Scripps.
Daughter of Slain Newspaper Heiress Commits Suicide
(AP Photo, file)
State Police Sgt. Todd Parent said they believe the body belongs to Anne Morell Petrillo, a daughter of slain newspaper heiress Anne Scripps Douglas, the great-great-granddaughter of The Detroit News founder James E. Scripps.
Ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy 
