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Pa. — A Pennsylvania college student is charged with posting fake online ads to lure victims and rob them. Police say 22-year-old Corey Jackson of East Stroudsburg would use the free classifieds site Craigslist to find his victims. Police say Jackson...
Tags: college student, Allentown, Crime, Virtual communities, Classified advertising, Online social networking, Craigslist, Law Crime
Stories of Doctors Without Borders" a documentary offering a rare inside look into the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders/M�decins Sans Fronti�res (MSF) will be screened Dec...The screening, which focuses on field operations in war-torn...
Tags: Honolulu, Movie theater, Arrowhead Stadium, James Dole, Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, Mᅢᄅdecins Sans Frontiᅢᄄres, Craigslist, Entertainment Culture, Border War, International nongovernmental organizations, Bait and switch
A Massachusetts woman is seeking donations from fellow pet lovers to help pay for eye surgery for her turkey named Jerry. Lyndsey Medeiros and her husband adopted three-year-old Jerry and another turkey from a Rhode Island farm last week.
Tags: Massachusetts, Jerry, Rehoboth, Craigslist, Cataract, Rehoboth Massachusetts, Eye surgery, Ophthalmology, Bristol County Massachusetts, Surgery, Human Interest
Is it a scam, or an anxious young woman seeking a home for her baby? That's the question Federal Way, Wash., police are trying to answer as they trace the person who posted an ad on Craigslist offering an unborn child for adoption. "Maybe she's just ignorant...
Tags: unborn child, birth mothers, adoptive parents, Seattle Times Text, Shari Levine, adoptive agency, Seattle, Craigslist, Language of adoption, Adoption in California, Family law, Adoption, Open adoption, Social Issues
Especially in Craigslist's depths, where inanity prevails in the form of, among other ways you never wanted to consider possible, job listings. So we want to know: which "highly visable" former Obama roommate needs an assistant?...If you can't afford...
Tags: Japan, Date, Barack Obama, Job, Employment, Intern, Craigslist
Police in Federal Way, Wash., said they are investigating whether a Craigslist posting for an unborn child up for adoption involves a real child. Federal Way police spokesman Raymond Bunk said if the 23-year-old woman described in the online posting is...
Tags: Federal Way, Craigslist, International adoption, Adoption in the United States, Family law, Adoption, Language of adoption, Social Issues, Law Crime, Craigslist controversies and illegal activities by users, Internet homicide, Online social networking, Crime
After a rash of Craigslist customers were robbed on the South Side, Chicago police scoured the popular Web site's ads for similar posts and posed as buyers. When the purported seller of plasma TVs at bargain-basement prices lured undercover detectives...
Tags: Dwayne Williams, Chicago Tribune, Cook, Criminal investigation, Detective, Law Crime, Online social networking, Craigslist, Chicago Police Department, War Conflict, Human Interest, Philip Markoff, Crime, Robberies, Bank robbery
The figures released on Thursday by the Newspaper Association of America leave little doubt newspapers will likely have to manage through the fourth year of a slump that has already killed some publications and wiped out thousands of jobs. Advertising...
Tags: ad revenue, newspaper ad, Australia, Melbourne, Newspaper Association of America, Newspaper, Classified advertising, Advertising, Craigslist, Journalism, Printing, Marketing, Business Finance, Publishing, Audit Bureau of Circulations, The New York Times, Entertainment Culture, Technology Internet, Communication design, Newspapers in the United States
August Zumwalt knew what was up as soon as he got a good look at the man who found his ad on Craigslist and “hired” him to help move his household property. The client was Norm Cooper, the same Oregon Department of Transportation motor carrier inspector...
Tags: ODOT, illegal movers, Canby, Craigslist, Beaverton, Oregon Department of Transportation, Surnames, Zumwalt, Moving company
Some are realizing this, and Eric Goldman point us to the latest example of this. Police in Palo Alto, California (right in the heart of Silicon Valley, so it's a good sign that they get this), used a Craigslist ad to help track down a bicycle thief .
Tags: Palo Alto, Tom Dart, Palo Alto California, Crime, Online social networking, Virtual communities, Craigslist, Law Crime