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Online posts by Virginia shooter show alarming trend: victim’s fiance

August 27, 2015 publisher alison, all-confirm, commit-murders, general-counsel, general-manager, internet, market-power, thursday

Social media posts by the man suspected of brazenly shooting two television journalists during a live broadcast in Virginia show a disturbing trend of unashamed exhibition of his crimes on the Internet, the partner of one of the victims said on Thursday. “What we are starting to see is continued boldness from people who want to commit murders in cold blood for notoriety,” said Hurst, who was a news anchor at WDBJ7 and was dating one of the slain journalists, Alison Parker. Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, were shot dead on Wednesday during a live segment for the CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Virginia, at a local recreation site about 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Washington.

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Virginia TV journalists killed by suspect with ‘powder keg’ of anger

August 27, 2015 publisher global, global-mobile, roanoke, said-on-friday, simon-jessop, the-businesses, united, wednesday

By Gary Robertson MONETA, Va. (Reuters) – Two television journalists were shot to death during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday, slain by a former employee of the TV station and who called himself a “powder keg” of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and elsewhere in the United States

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U.S. arrests CEO, employees of largest online male escort service

August 25, 2015 publisher arrests, boxes-labeled, crime, employees, employees-were, evidence-out, jeffrey-hurant, largest, manhattan, officers-take, police, rentboy-com, seen-carrying

U.S. authorities on Tuesday announced the arrests of the chief executive officer and six employees of Rentboy.com for promoting prostitution through what prosecutors described as the largest online male escort service.

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Caitlyn Jenner costume for Halloween sparks social media outrage

August 25, 2015 publisher arrests, during-the-2015, japan-caroline, jeffrey-hurant, largest, manhattan, millennium, nokia-theater, press, united-states, vanity

By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) – Retailers selling Caitlyn Jenner costumes for Halloween sparked a social media firestorm on Tuesday from critics who say the get-up insults transgender people and promotes stereotypes. Jenner, a former Olympic gold medalist and reality TV star known as Bruce, came out as transgender this year and introduced herself in a Vanity Fair cover story that earned international attention. A change.org petition launched on Monday is demanding that Spirit Halloween, a costume company with over 1,100 locations in the United States and Canada, stop producing and selling the costume, which includes a brunette wig, shiny white padded bustier and shorts resembling the outfit Jenner wore in the Vanity Fair cover photo.

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Lawyers stake out sides at New England prep school rape trial

August 18, 2015 publisher alleged, avoid-making, culture, faces-charges, from-the-may, labrie, made-opening, opening, popular-senior, scene-during, time, tunbridge, very-different

Two very different versions of a sexual encounter last year between two pupils at an elite New Hampshire prep school emerged on Tuesday, the opening day of the rape trial of one of the students.

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Internships: to pay or not to pay?

August 18, 2015 publisher alleged, career, chief-executive, from-the-may, intern-at-their, offer-valuable, patricia-reaney, said-it-aims, shahista-lalani, success, young-people

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – For young people trying to get a foot on the career ladder, internships offer valuable experience.

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Office of Minnesota dentist who shot Zimbabwe lion reopens without him

August 18, 2015 publisher bloomington, dental, dental-practice, killing, practice, rally-outside, river, walter-palmer, world-reopened, zimbabwe

The dental practice of a Minnesota hunter whose killing of Zimbabwe's best-known lion, Cecil, sparked widespread criticism from animal lovers around the world reopened on Monday without him, the practice said in a statement.

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Despite protests, slog more likely than radical change in Brazil

August 17, 2015 publisher 12-year-trough, alibaba-group, brazil, china, country, established, her-impeachment, impeachment, man-accused, paulista-avenue, paulo, paulo-prada, the-established, vast-corruption

By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Despite protests by hundreds of thousands of Brazilians against President Dilma Rousseff and ongoing calls for her impeachment, little suggests radical change in Brazil anytime soon. With the country hobbled by legislative gridlock, a lack of viable alternatives to the established political parties and an economic reversal so complete that its currency is trading at a 12-year trough, there are no easy or fast fixes

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Atom Bank taps video game technology to win mobile customers

August 12, 2015 publisher chairman-anthony, goldman-sachs, headquarters, homeless-people, procedure, said-the-notice, thomson, website-because

By Matt Scuffham DURHAM, England (Reuters) – Atom Bank's mobile banking app is so commercially sensitive that its developers won't even allow it to be demonstrated. The bank, whose founder believes can transform consumer banking in Britain, is in the final stages of preparation before launching its first products later this year

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U.S. judge strikes down New Hampshire ban on ballot photos

August 12, 2015 publisher ads, ballot-selfie, cash-or-other, filled, hampshire, inducements, photo, post-featured, redeem-promises, screens-display, second-biggest, sharing-photos, such-as-free, their-marked, ukraine

A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a New Hampshire law barring voters from sharing photos of their filled-out ballots online, saying the statute violated constitutional free speech laws. New Hampshire’s so-called “ballot selfie” law was enacted ahead of the 2014 election. It was intended to revise laws passed about a century ago when vote-buying was relatively widespread and voters shared their marked ballot to redeem promises of cash or other inducements.