Tag archive: Amber

You have to feel for poor Robert Salisbury. As reported last week, he returned home from work to find people making off with possessions from his Oregon property. They thought it was quite legit, thanks to an ad placed on the online classifieds site Cragislist. That’s not to mention the problems he encountered when he tried to stop them.   But an ad was the cause of it all, and the couple who placed it have been found and charged.… Read More

Judge Sam Sparks of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has dismissed a lawsuit brought against popular social networking Web site MySpace. The suit was brought by the family of a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by a 19 year-old man she met via the Web site; the suit charged MySpace with fraud, negligence, and negligent misrepresentation. In granting MySpace's motion to dismiss the suit, Judge Sparks… Read More

Popular social networking Web site MySpace is looking to improve its image and project itself as a positive thing in young people's online lives: beginning today, MySpace is working with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to carry online versions of Amber alerts, notifying MySpace members of missing and possibly kidnapped children in their area. MySpace says the Amber alerts will be updated constantly;… Read More