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    February 15, 2012

    Trader Joe's Cookie Butter, aka Speculoos, is Back!

    ProfessorSalt.comTrader Joe's Cookie Butter, before they ran out last year​If you've never experienced the creamy, crackalicious wonder that is Trader Joe's Cookie Butter, it might be because the shipment they imported late last year caught on like wildfire. They've been sold out since before ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Medical Marijuana Dispensary Owner Gets Year Behind Bars

    ​We've written about how some juries have been reluctant to help put pot shop owners who have been prosecuted for selling marijuana behind bars. It appears one man wasn't so lucky. Forty-seven-year-old Charles Lynch was convicted on federal charges of cultivating and selling weed, and Thursday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Federal Judge Suggests U.S. Change Anti-Marijuana Law

    Judge Wu.​In sentencing a California pot shop owner to a year behind bars on federal charges of cultivating and selling marijuana, a U.S. district court judge based in Los Angeles suggested that the federal government change marijuana's outlaw status. Judge George H. Wu was very sympathetic t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Judge Throws Out Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Miley Cyrus

    Me so racist.​A lawsuit from a woman who claimed Miley Cyrus violated her civil rights and those of other Asian-Americans when she stretched her eyes out with her fingers for a photo was thrown out Friday. Claimant Lucie Kim argued that the photo, exposed in February, infringed on her civil right ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2009

    MySpace Mom Back on Computer

    It had to happen sooner or later: Lori Drew, the so-called MySpace Mom, is back at her terminal. In 2006 the Missouri woman created a young hunk in cyberspace whose fictitious MySpace posts led to a fragile girl's suicide. Last November Drew, 50, beat most of the federal Ted SoquiDrew With Attorney ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    MySpace Mom Case Concludes -- 'Tentatively'

    Ted SoquiSarah and Lori Drew (right) "Shame on the U.S. Attorney for filing these charges! Shame on Tom O'Brien and the U.S.Attorney's office!" So spoke attorney Dean Steward on the steps of the Federal Courthouse Thursday following Judge George Wu's reversal of three misdemeanor convictions faced ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Judge Tosses MySpace Mom's Misdemeanor Convictions

    Federal Judge George Wu has tentatively reversed three misdemeanor convictions against MySpace Mom Lori Drew, the Missouri woman who was accused of setting up a phony MySpace profile to bully Megan Meier -- a 13-year-old girl who eventually committed suicide. Last November jurors acquitted Drew of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2009

    Judge Plays Hamlet in MySpace Mom Sentencing Hearing

    Ted SoquiDean Steward and Lori DrewRoom 10 of the austerely elegant old federal courthouse on Spring Street was fairly filled, Monday, with media and spectators who'd come to hear Judge George Wu pronounce sentence on Lori Drew. Drew is the "MySpace Mom" who, with her young daughter and another teen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2009

    MySpace Mom Trial: A Sentence Without a Period

    Today was the day Lori Drew, the Missouri mother known as the MySpace Mom, was to be sentenced for violating the terms of service for the  MySpace account she used to taunt a former friend of her daughter. The girl, Megan Meier, hanged herself in October, 2006. Drew was not charged with causing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    MySpace Mom Sentence Recommendation: Probation

    According to the Associated Press, a federal probation office report will recommend that Lori Ted SoquiLori Drew, right, with daughter SarahDrew receive probation for the three misdemeanor computer-fraud charges on which she was convicted last November. Drew is the so-called MySpace Mom whose online ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    Still No Decision on MySpace Mom Trial Dismissals

    Time seems to have stood still in Federal Judge George Wu's courtroom. Back in November Dean Steward, the lawyer defending Lori Drew, who was accused of harassing a young girl through a bogus MySpace account, filed for a dismissal. The "Rule 29" grounds were simple: The government had not put on any ... More >>

  • News

    January 1, 2009

    On Trial: Pellicano, Scat-Porn King Ira Isaacs, Designer Anand Jon

    Verdicts are never the last word in court

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2008

    Bulletin: MySpace Mom Beats Worst Charges

    Just before 11 a.m. this morning Federal District Judge George Wu spoke the words that ended the weeklong MySpace Trial: "All right, let's bring the jury in." Lori Drew (R) and her daughter Sarah Drew who was Megan Meier's best friend leaving the U.S. Federal Courthouse. Photo by Ted Soqui. Click ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2008

    MySpace Mom Trial: To Be or Not to Be?

    Federal District Judge George Wu has shown an easy ability to reference films and TV shows during the trial of Lori Drew. Maybe, then, he's familiar with Laurence Olivier's famous prologue to his film version of Hamlet: "This is the story of a man who could not make up his mind." The line is especia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    Accused MySpace Mom Splashed With Juror Venom

    Jury selection for the trial of Lori Drew, the Missouri woman accused of illegally creating a fictitious MySpace profile (one that resulted in a fragile 13-year-old girl committing suicide) was supposed to race by today; there was even talk of opening statements being heard late this afternoon. Noth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    Judge Allows S-word in MySpace Mom Trial

    Federal Judge George Wu does not like surprises. At the start of today's pretrial hearing for Lori Drew, Wu asked if any of the gathered counsels, who included U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien and high-powered defense lawyer Dean Steward, if they'd seen Law and Order last week. The lawyers shrugged "No" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2008

    MySpace Suicide Mom in Court

    Although July approaches, it’s still not too late for a first-time criminal defendant to make her spring debut in federal court. Media Village of the Damned: Press waiting for Lori Drew

  • News

    July 13, 2006

    A Methane-charged Lawsuit

    Playa foes urge a judge to rule permits invalid for massive development

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