SAN RAFAEL, CA — James Raphael “Rafe” Mitchell, son of late porn mogul Jim Mitchell, on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges he murdered his former girlfriend and kidnapped their infant daughter.According to police, Mitchell beat to death 29-year-old Danielle Keller in the...

FORT MYERS BEACH, FL — Mayor Larry Kiker and ex-Fort Myers Beach town manager Scott Janke may still be friends after the former fired the latter for daring to fall in love with and then marry a porn performer – but that doesn’t mean the Jankes are sticking around for summer...

SAN JOSE, CA — Look out, world. Following the revelation that Adobe’s Flash video player and Acrobat Reader include an un-patched vulnerability, experts predict “holey” hell for users this week.The vulnerability allows hackers to install malicious code on users’ computers...

CHICAGO, IL — Despite changing the name of its popular “erotic services” section, removing the most graphic photographs in the new “adult services” listings and agreeing to screen all ads for potentially illegal offers, Craigslist remains the target of allegations it is...

CYBERSPACE — ”First they came for the 4channers, and I did not speak out, because I was not a 4channer,” begins a comment on DailyKos.com in response to a story concerning the roughly 12 hour block of 4chan.com by AT&T. For many, the temporary form of corporate...

WESEL, GERMANY — Who hasn’t felt confused by government paperwork and accidentally checked a box of filed the wrong form? Doctor, lawyer, teacher, housewife, porn legend – anyone can make a mistake. In the case of German porn legend Dolly Buster, the mistake might well put...

CHICAGO, IL — Claiming unconstitutional restriction of speech in a public forum, the Entertainment Software Association has filed suit against the Chicago Transit Authority for refusing to accept advertising about “mature” and “adults-only” video games.Under CTA regulations...

TORONTO, CANADA — Never underestimate the power of a bureaucracy to makes its impact felt far from its point of origin. A case in point is the Toronto civic workers strike – and an assortment of strippers who may just find themselves in trouble with the law because of...

FORT MYERS BEACH, FL —Mayor Larry Kiker has an interesting way of avoiding controversy. He generates it himself. Kiker helped make national headlines this week by firing Scott Janke, the Fort Myers Beach, FL town manager, for the singularly strange social crime of marrying...

WASHINGTON, DC — More than half of all adult Americans have accessed the internet through a mobile connection, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Mobile devices — laptop computers, cell phones, gaming consoles,...