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Former CBS3 anchor Larry Mendte was a man obsessed, if a record compiled by federal investigators is any measure, hacking into the personal e-mail of onetime colleague Alycia Lane 537 times in 146 days, checking in 10 or more times on busy days. He logged in from home, his desk at work, his Shore home in Ocean City, and even the Union League. He did so virtually round the clock, at 3:03 a.m. one time and 4:18 a.m. another, and each and every day in January after Lane was fired from CBS3 and nearly every day after that. He passed...

NEW YORK - A former Philadelphia TV news anchor accused of hitting a New York police officer left court a free woman Monday after a judge said she will dismiss newly reduced charges if the defendant behaves for six months. Charges against Alycia Lane, 35, were downgraded to misdemeanors after prosecutors said scratches on the female officer's face weren't serious enough to warrant felony assault charges. Lane's lawyer David S. Smith denied she hit the officer early Dec. 16. A police complaint said she put a video camera in the face of another officer as he tried to put a...

ALYCIA LANE ARRESTED, PUNCHES COP December 16, 2007 -- A foxy Philly anchorwoman - who once e-mailed sexy swimsuit snaps to a married TV talking head - became an anger woman today, calling a female cop a "dyke bitch" and slugging her in the face, law-enforcement sources said. The bizarro incident occurred when Alycia Lane, an Emmy Award-winning anchor for KWY-TV in Philadelphia, was riding in a cab with hunky radio DJ boyfriend Chris Booker and another couple when their taxi was stalled behind a slow-moving, unmarked police car, sources said. When the unmarked car stopped for a light at...