Here’s a marketing pitch that will grab your attention: Want to avoid getting raped or killed? Don’t use Craigslist.
That’s what Oodle, a competing online marketplace, is telling browsers and posters of classified ads. It hired an outside consulting firm, AIM Group, to compile reports of violent crimes that resulted from meetings facilitated by...
PITTSBURGH -- One person was arrested following an undercover drug bust at a day care in Homewood early Friday morning.
During the bust, agents found $6,000 worth of crack cocaine, several bags of sex toys and $4,000 cash.
Reanell Booker,50, who ran the R&B Childcare Services along Rosedale Street, was taken into custody, police said....
Plague Death Came Within Hours, Spurred by Scientist's Medical Condition
University of Chicago infectious disease specialist Ken Alexander still remembers the shock he felt almost 18 months ago when his pager shook with the message that a colleague had died from the plague.
A half-hour later, Alexander was sitting at a table in the dean’s...
LAKEVILLE, Minn. - Police charged 18-year-old Christian Rider with making terroristic threats after a telephone tussle with his father.
According to Lakeville, Minn., Police, the incident began when Rider’s father refused to pick him up from a friend’s house because he found nude photographs Rider had sent to his girlfriend via his phone,...
