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Happy Birthday, June: Fla. woman, 84, gets back on motorcycle again to relive happy memories By TAMARA LUSH , Associated Press BUCKHEAD RIDGE, Fla. — What do you get an 84-year-old lady for her birthday? That's what Carol Brown was thinking a few weeks ago. Her mother, June Pearce, was turning 84. The idea of buying and giving more stuff just didn't appeal to Brown. "When you're 84, what is there?" she thought. Pearce lives in a slow-paced retirement area near Lake Okeechobee in rural Florida. She's been married to the same man, Fred, for 64 years. Pearce is a...

CHICAGO (AFP) - An Illinois sheriff filed a lawsuit against Craigslist on Thursday calling the popular website the largest clearing house for prostitution in the United States. Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart sued the owners of the classified ad site in US District Court for facilitating prostitution by failing to block blatant offers to trade sex for money. "Craigslist is the single largest source of prostitution in the nation," Dart said at a press conference in Chicago. "Missing children, runaways, abused women and women trafficked in from foreign countries are routinely forced to have sex with strangers because they're being...

Reporting from Washington -- Another inauguration took place in Washington this week -- Google Inc. officially became a political power player... ..."Google is not just a benign corporate entity. It has a variety of special interests," said Jeff Chester, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, who has sparred with Google over data-privacy issues. "They're in a great position to push their agenda through with the support of the president and the Democrats in Congress." But Google's newfound political ties heighten concerns about its grip on the online advertising market. The company could play better defense against strong...

A brief phone survey yesterday of D.C.-area hookers found on Craigslist revealed that Barack Obama's inauguration is inspiring great hopes — for their business. A pair who work together expect 30 clients before Wednesday, all paying $200 a pop. Meeka, 21, a “sexy southern belle, new to town,” has come into the city specially for the festivities. “I'm busy over the weekend,” she told us. “I could make time for you, though.” Karina, 26, traveled five hours to get here, and was already “pretty booked up.” All of the women, who charge between $100 and $300 per hour, voted for...

email this posting to a friend best of craigslist > washington, DC > Room for Rent -- Inauguration Day/ObamaCon 2009 Originally Posted: Tue, 11 Nov 11:45 EST Room for Rent -- Inauguration Day/ObamaCon 2009 Date: 2008-11-11, 11:45AM EST In a search of a room in DC so that you can spend Jan. 20 standing in the bitter winter cold with thousands of like-minded souls watching the historic transfer of power from one Harvard grad to another? Look no further. Me: Heartless, greedy right-wing oppressive type looking to make a buck. You: Obama's election was Christmas/your first kiss/May Day all wrapped...

A Twin Cities man admitted in federal court on Wednesday that he answered an ad on Craigslist to be a babysitter, then used the child he was babysitting to make pornographic pictures. Authorities say 23 year old Aaron Lemon of Little Canada took the pictures, then sent them around the country and around the world on the internet. The maximum sentence in such a case could approach 30 years. In reality, most sentences are far less. Federal documents accuse Lemon of taking the pictures in August of 2007. He was also accused of distributing pornography, and possessing it.

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - This time last year, Monique White was living in a motel and looking for work, wishing for the bustling Thanksgivings of her childhood. This year, White's holiday wish will be fulfilled -- thanks to an impromptu Craigslist posting. The 36-year-old posted a two-sentence invite on the Internet classifieds site last week. The receptionist at a dentist's office was feeling a little lonely, her two sons spending the holiday with their dad, so she figured maybe four or five strangers would reply and join her and longtime partner Doug White for Thanksgiving dinner. Instead, 32 people are...

Drug dealing on craigslist has become so rampant that the city's special narcotics prosecutor has asked the online trading post to curb the ads, the Daily News has learned. Bridget Brennan's undercover investigators have bought drugs offered on craigslist personals from dealers ranging from a Citigroup banker to an Ivy Leaguer to a violent felon using a halfway house computer. In the past four years, her office has prosecuted dozens of dealers.  "Ski lift tickets are here for sale ... Tina Turner tickets ... best seats around!" Offers like these appear virtually every day on craigslist, and they are thinly...

In a search of a room in DC so that you can spend Jan. 20 standing in the bitter winter cold with thousands of like-minded souls watching the historic transfer of power from one Harvard grad to another? Look no further. Me: Heartless, greedy right-wing oppressive type looking to make a buck.

My first new thread post.... so be kind.... see ad in Craigs list..... http://columbus.craigslist.org/evg/901207093.html "We need several women, dress sizes 2, 4, and 6 to wear a promotional American Apparel Obama dress to the rally. No previous experience is required" snip What do you guys think of this ???

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A Craisgslist advertisment offered $28.50 an hour for landscaping work but it failed to mention the possibility of being a decoy for a grab-and-run robbery. A man wearing a blue, long-sleeved shirt, yellow safety vest, safety glasses or other eye protection and ventilator mask -- the outfit specified in the ad -- accosted a Brinks armored truck guard with pepper spray about 11 a.m. in Monroe, Wash. Tuesday during a cash delivery to a Bank of America branch, grabbed a bag of money and eluded pursuers after entering a nearby creek. Left behind were a number of similarly clad workers...

Videographer Tom Morgan placed an ad on Craigslist to drum up business - but ended up getting mugged and losing his livelihood. Morgan, 22, was robbed at gunpoint of his wallet and $4,000 worth of equipment after showing up to what he thought would be a $200 job shooting a two-hour bachelorette party in Brooklyn. "The only thing I saw was the gun," he said. "I had never been close to a gun before." Business had been picking up for theVassar College graduate, who has been freelancing full time since December. He had two jobs booked for the weekend when...

BERKELEY — Playing to the UC Berkeley's liberal reputation, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark told graduating seniors Tuesday that they will be responsible for "rebuilding" the country after President Bush's term ends. In a rambling and mostly off-the-cuff speech under a hot afternoon sun, Newmark said he no longer has the energy to save the world but has been encouraged by the drive of the younger generation. "The bad news is I'm going to ask you to do it," he said. "The good news is you're already doing it." Newmark founded the eponymous Web site in 1995 as an e-mail list...

Doug Kelley was perplexed when Craigslist ads for his Sacramento carpet-cleaning business started disappearing from the popular Web site. Every time he re-posted one of his classified ads, it would vanish - often within minutes. After competitors' ads started showing up, some of them openly denigrating his company, West Coast Carpet Care, Kelley knew he had a problem. Since then, Kelley estimates he has spent $11,000 in attorney's and court fees fighting his online business adversaries. "You'd think (Craigslist) would want to get rid of the tweakers and keep good-quality, licensed business people who are productive members of society," he...

March 2008 (Cambridge, MA) Middlesex County Assistant District Attorney Deb Bercovitch is prosecuting one of the most unusual child pornography cases you will ever come across. Bercovitch is internationally known for her infamous trespassing convictions against two schoolkids who were caught building a snow fort in Framingham, MA while on school property. Now Bercovitch is pressing felony child pornography charges against a New Hampshire man in an improbable case pitting the alleged "victim" squarely against the prosecution. The defendant faces a May 1st jury trial in Cambridge Superior Court. The defendant faces up to 5 years in prison if convicted....

Oregon man's property ransacked after Craigslist hoax Monday, March 24, 2008 Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Ore. -- A pair of hoax ads on Craigslist cost an Oregon man much of what he owned. The ads popped up Saturday afternoon, saying the owner of a Jacksonville home was forced to leave the area suddenly and his belongings, including a horse, were free for the taking, said Jackson County sheriff's Detective Sgt. Colin Fagan. But Robert Salisbury had no plans to leave. The independent contractor was at Emigrant Lake when he got a call from a woman who had stopped by his house...

FBI Says Woman Sought Hit Man On Craigslist Woman Allegedly Wanted To 'Eradicate' Wife Of Man She Met OnlinePOSTED: 10:34 am EST January 27, 2008 SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Michigan woman is accused of posting an ad on the Internet hoping to find somebody to kill the wife of a California man she had met online and had had an affair with. Forty-nine-year-old Ann Marie Linscott was arrested at her home in Grand Rapids, Mich., last week. Federal prosecutors this week will seek to have her transferred to northern California to face charges. According to court documents, Linscott put an...

MIAMI, FL (Crime Library) — Police have arrested a Miami-Dade real estate agent for posting fake escort ads to an Internet classified website that included the personal contact information of a rival agent. According to police, the incidents began last summer, when 44-year-old Debbie Blasberg, a local real estate agent and married mother of two, reported that she was receiving hundreds of unsolicited phone calls and text messages from strangers inquiring about sex. One of the callers had confessed that he found her number in an escort ad at Craigslist.org, an online classifieds website that hosts ads from 450 cities...