| eHarmony.com sued for excluding homosexuals
LOS ANGELES, Calif. A Los Angeles woman has sued the popular online dating site eHarmony.com, claiming she was discriminated against based on her sexual orientation when the Web site refused to pair her with another woman. eHarmony was founded in 2000 by Neil Clark Warren, an evangelical with ties to Focus on the Family, and it has grown to more than 12 million registered users, according to Reuters. The lawyer for the woman, Linda Carlson, said the lawsuit was "about changing the landscape and making a statement out there that gay people, just like heterosexuals, have the right and desire to meet other people with whom they can fall in love." Carlson is urging fellow homosexuals to join the class action lawsuit geared toward forcing eHarmony to change its policy.
Fake beauties rush net lover
FAKE beauties, including a Nigerian woman with millions to share, have rushed an internet "sting" set-up to test online dating services. THEIR stories are always the same - a tragic young girl, usually Nigerian, forced to live in terrible conditions until she is able to access the millions her father left her. SHE will contact you through a dating site asking for help to transfer the money into an offshore account for your new life together. USING a composite photo made from images of staff members, the Sunday Mail set up a profile of Geoff Carr , an eligible, handsome South Australianon, and put him a popular dating website to see what response we would get. And it doesn't matter that he is not a real man – because neither are many of the women who contacted him during his first week on a popular dating website.
Web Site Archives the Dead of MySpace
Now her page fills a plot on http://www.MyDeathSpace.com , a Web site that archives the pages of deceased MySpace members.
Behold a community spawned from twin American obsessions: Memorializing the dead and peering into strangers' lives. Anyone with Internet access can submit a death to the site, which currently lists nearly 2,700 deaths and receives more than 100,000 hits per day.
The tales are mostly those of the very young who died prematurely. Here, death roams cyberspace in all its spectral forms: senseless and indiscriminate, sometimes premeditated, often brutally graphic. It's also a place where the living - those who knew the deceased and those who didn't - discuss this world and the next.
There's a boy, 16, who passed out in the shower and drowned.
Local man gets 20 months on weapons charge
Garcia on Dec. 14, 2007, for the federal charge of unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm, an AR-15 converted to fully automatic, with an obliterated serial number, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
The original arrest in September 2006 stemmed from a fire investigation on Ryans Russell Valley property north of Truckee, where he allegedly had ignited an unlawful debris pile during fire restrictions.
A Forest Service officer went to Ryans house to investigate and was met with resistance and death threats by Ryan, according to Forest Service officials.
A search of Ryans residence and outbuildings revealed two fully automatic machine guns.
On Dec. 18, 2007, Ryan pleaded guilty to the state charge of issuing death threats.
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