At issue is whether teenage couples should be treated as criminals when they have sex and send nude photos to each other.
February 2015
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Facebook offers options for social media afterlife
Beginning in the U.S., Facebook users can pick a ‘legacy contact’ to manage their account after they die or choose to have the account deleted.
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Posted inBusiness
Expedia announces deal to buy Orbitz for $1.3 billion
A union would bring further consolidation to the online travel-booking industry.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
A Valentine’s tale of how Colombia bloomed into a U.S. flower power
Fifty years ago, a college student from Colorado and a pioneering entrepreneur put the country on a path to $1.3 billion in annual sales.
Posted inPortland Sea Dogs, Sports
Lawsuit seeks better pay for minor-league baseball players
A class-action suit argues that minor-league players often make less than minimum wage.
Posted inNews
Harvard, MIT sued over lack of captions for deaf
Advocates for the deaf say these schools are seen as leaders and their practices affect other schools.
Posted inNation & World
Amanda Knox getting married
Knox’s murder conviction in the 2007 stabbing of her roommate has been reinstated by an Italian court, but she vows not to return to Italy.
Posted inNation & World
FBI director acknowledges ‘hard truths’ of racial bias
In giving the speech at Georgetown University, James B. Comey placed himself at the heart of the politically charged debate on race, policing and use of force.
Posted inLifestyle
Emile Hirsch faces charges after bar incident
The actor allegedly put a woman in a chokehold at a Utah nightclub.
Posted inNation & World
Islamic State claims to shelter widow of Paris jihadist
Hayat Boumeddiene’s husband took hostages and killed four at a kosher supermarket in Paris on Jan. 9.