Related News: Ozark murder involved fake “weed”, $10 debt

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Ozark murder involved fake “weed”, $10 debt.

Records show the person to whom Markoff owed the $10 was also one of the last people to call him before he was shot.

Police have already said they believe Knight provided the gun for the shooting, but that the 15-year-old juvenile actually pulled the trigger. Police have also said two other people apparently waited down the street in a vehicle when the shooting happened.

Police also said information technology, such as social media, helped police develop the suspects in the murder.

Source: The Dothan Eagle

Related News: Former music and youth minister in Sheffield charged with sex abuse of a youth

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Former music and youth minister in Sheffield charged with sex abuse of a youth.

Oliver Brazelle, 79, the former music director at the First United Methodist Church in Sheffield, was arrested Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, and charged with second-degree sexual abuse and one-count of second-degree sodomy, according to officials in Lauderdale County.

Brazelle had been barred in 2003 from directing youth choirs by the Methodist bishop for North Alabama, according to records released during the investigation by the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, because of allegations of inappropriate relationships with young people alleged to have occurred in the 1970s. When the Sheffield police opened an investigation in July 2012, Brazelle admitted to church officials that he had had an inappropriate relationship with a youth in the past. Church officials fired Brazelle on July 27, 2012.

Source: AL.com

Related News: UAB suspends high school tours of anatomy lab after student’s ‘selfie’ with cadaver

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled UAB suspends high school tours of anatomy lab after student’s ‘selfie’ with cadaver.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is suspending high school field trip tours of its human anatomy lab in the wake of an incident this week in which a student was caught taking a “selfie” with a cadaver.

The photo was posted on Instagram after the Monday outing before outrage led to it being deleted.

Source: AL.com

Related News: Muscle Shoals children’s minister charged with child sex abuse once worked at juvenile detention center

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Muscle Shoals children’s minister charged with child sex abuse once worked at juvenile detention center.

A youth pastor arrested Tuesday on 35 counts of child pornography and sex abuse has been on the staff of Highland Park Baptist for 16 years and formerly served as a juvenile detention officer in Tuscumbia.

Jeff Eddie, who was charged with two counts of child pornography, 31 counts of second-degree sodomy, and three counts of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12, lists the Tennessee Valley Juvenile Detention Facility as a former employer on his webpage.

Source: AL.com

Related News: Police arrest man accused of secretly video recording woman in public restroom

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Police arrest man accused of secretly video recording woman in public restroom.

UPDATE: Columbus Police have made an arrest. Gregory Wilson was taken to jail Saturday evening. He will be in Recorder’s Court Monday 2-10-14 at 2 p.m.

Columbus Police are looking for a man who followed an underage girl into the ladies room of a fast food restaurant and used his cell phone to record her in the stall.

“When I looked down, he was under the stall. I said, ‘what are you doing?’, and right after that, he got out,” said Madison Plemons, 17.

Madison Plemons and her boyfriend just left a Cottonmouths game at the Civic Center last Sunday and stopped by the Burger King in the 1300 block of Veterans Parkway for something to eat on their way home.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Is Twitter making you STUPID? Social networking sites are making it hard for people to think for themselves

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Mail Online published an article titled Is Twitter making you STUPID? Social networking sites are making it hard for people to think for themselves.

They have become a quick and easy way of learning about everything from world affairs to the affairs of friends.

But Twitter and Facebook may be eroding our ability to think.

Researchers believe speed, volume and ease with which information is shared through social networking sites may be making it more difficult for us to think analytically.

Source: Mail Online

Related News: California educator accused on YouTube of sexual abuse charged with 16 felonies

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled California educator accused on YouTube of sexual abuse charged with 16 felonies.

A California educator who authorities say is the person accused in a YouTube video of sexual abuse by a former student was charged Monday with 16 felony counts of child sex abuse, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said.

Andrea Michelle Cardosa was charged with five counts of aggravated sexual assault on a child and 11 counts of lewd acts on a child, the DA’s office said.

Cardosa was arrested Monday evening by sheriff’s deputies and is expected to be arraigned Thursday. She faces possible life in prison if convicted of the aggravated sexual assault charges.

Source: CNN

Related News: Senate aide who killed himself left final message

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Federal investigators also said that in October, child pornography files were being offered for download on an Internet peer-to-peer network linked to Loskarn’s residential IP address. It included a 28-minute video of graphic material featuring children reportedly as young as 6 years old, authorities said.

In his letter, which was found after his death and reportedly posted online by his family, Loskarn wrote about how tormented he felt when thinking about sharing his struggles with friends and family. He apologized to the victims who were in the videos, as well as anyone touched by the scandal.

Source: CNN

Related News: Parents fight cyberbullying with lawsuit

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. TODAY published an article titled Parents fight cyberbullying with lawsuit.

A Texas family is trying to fight cyberbullying in court.

Reymundo and Shellie Esquivel are filing a lawsuit this week against six of their teenage daughter’s schoolmates and their parents, alleging that the students created an Instagram account aimed at humiliating her and fellow classmates.

“When we opened up the web page on Instagram, we opened up Pandora’s box,” Shellie Esquivel told TODAY’s Janet Shamlian. “There was a picture of her and all these vulgar postings of her underneath the photograph.”

Source: TODAY

Related News: If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox

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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Wired published an article titled If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox.

While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail.

Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated investigations.

The bureau’s data windfall, seized from a company called Freedom Hosting, surfaced in court papers last week when prosecutors indicted a Florida man for allegedly selling counterfeit credit cards online. The filings show the FBI built its case in part by executing a search warrant on a Gmail account used by the counterfeiters, where they found that orders for forged cards were being sent to a TorMail e-mail account: “platplus@tormail.net.”

Source: Wired