A drop in reputation scores for hundreds of prominent Web sites this week has bloggers buzzing that Google has tweaked its PageRank algorithm. Although Google hasn’t admitted to tweaking PR (PageRank), which appears in the Google Toolbar and is Google’s system for weighing a Web page for its relevance to a specific query based on [...]
A 34-year-old woman has been charged with using the Internet to try to get revenge on an old boyfriend by breaking up his marriage. Pilar Stofega has been charged with second-degree harassment and breach of peace and released on $2,500 bond. Waterford police say she created phony profiles of the former boyfriend’s current wife on [...]
A dead man’s fingers were cut off for identification in Albania even though he was carrying identity papers and his killer confessed. Police confirmed a media report that shocked the family of the victim, who had returned to Albania to marry his fiancee. “This action was performed by the investigative team not only to identify [...]
Instead of walking down the aisle of a church, a former New York couple will traipse down the aisle of a court room to settle a fight over a $48,800 diamond engagement ring. Dean Kuehnen Jr. is suing his ex-fiance, Andria Castellano, to compel her to either return the ring or give him cash — [...]
Everyone around me wants to start a new business. Everyone wants to be the next greatest entrepreneur. But 99.9% of them seem to lack the understanding that a business plan is not just important, but vital. When launching a new venture or expanding on an existing one, the most important step will be the construction [...]
A Mexican priest briefly ended up behind bars after punching a policeman who caught him driving drunkenly through the streets of the northern city of Monterrey. Priest Manuel Raul Ortega, who was not wearing clerical dress but was clutching a prayer book when captured, launched himself at the traffic cop who pulled him over earlier [...]
Australian doctors have kept an Italian tourist alive by feeding him vodka through a drip for three days, medical staff in Queensland say. The 24-year-old man, who had swallowed a poison in an apparent suicide attempt, was treated while in a coma. Doctors set up the drip after running out of medicinal alcohol, used as [...]
Deal or no deal? An online exchange between a woman looking for a husband who earns more than $500,000 a year and a mystery Wall Street banker, who assessed her potential for romance as a business deal, has cause quite an Internet stir. The anonymous 25-year-old woman recently posted an ad on the free online [...]
Shoplifters at Country Mart tend to favor cold medicines and packaged meats. They used to steal cigarettes, too, until tobacco was moved behind the counter. But the doughnuts were never a target for thieves. Country Mart’s doughnuts — fried fresh daily in the store — sell for just 52 cents each. That is why the [...]
They’ve been left on doorsteps and outside post offices in the dead of night, but no one knows what to make of the mystery of the stone heads. As many as 20 artfully carved faces, miniature versions of the Easter Island sculptures, have been deposited in sleepy villages across northern England in recent weeks, leaving [...]