Joshua Van Auker is charged with trying to extort $15,000 by threatening to release evidence that the retired Pittsburgh Steelers great had paid for sex.
October 2012
Posted inNews
38 Studios items again hitting the auction block
The second of two auctions includes graphic animation equipment, computers and model airplanes Curt Schilling is said to have made and kept in his office.
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Posted inPolitics, Senate
Crossroads makes biggest buy yet in Senate races
The nonprofit Crossroads GPS says it’s spending $5.8 million this week in Indiana, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio and Virginia.
Posted inNews
Munch’s ‘The Scream’ going on view in NYC
Edvard Munch created four versions of “The Scream” between 1893 and 1910. This is the only one in private hands.
Posted inBusiness, News
Apple’s iPad Mini much pricier than rival tablets
Apple watchers had been expecting a lower price than $329 to compete with less expensive tablets like Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Google ‘s Nexus 7.
Posted inNews
Trooper fatally shoots suspect in Lamoine double slaying
Leon Tilden, 27, was the subject of a manhunt Tuesday morning after Tilden’s father and uncle were shot to death.
Posted inNews, Politics
Social networks grab ‘horses and bayonets’ debate line
The exchange started with Romney challenging his Democratic opponent by saying the Navy is too small and has fewer ships than it did in 1916.
Posted inNews
NH woman uses walker to fend off attacker
The 50-year-old diabetic told police the man entered her home on Sunday and had a knife.
Posted inNation & World, News
Records detail past problems at firm linked to meningitis
Investigators in 2006 found inadequate contamination control and no written standard operating procedures for using equipment, among other problems.
Posted inNews
Maine’s cost of housing children of ‘bath salts’ users soars
The state has transferred $1 million to the Office of Child and Family Services to pay room and board for children whose parents are using the hallucinogen.