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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...

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia announced Monday that it has charged former CBS 3 anchor Larry Mendte with a felony count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization. The government's case against Mendte, 51, is set out in an "Information" – the formal charging document. The Information charges Mendte with one count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and thereby obtaining information in furtherance of a tortious act. The Information says Mendte accessed the private e-mail accounts of former co-anchor Alycia Lane hundreds of times from from his Chestnut Hill home, his vacation home, KYW and...