Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Kimberly Ritter will be honored for her work at FBI Headquarters in April.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported Kimberly Ritter's professional affiliations. A corrected version appears below. An account executive for a Maplewood conference planning firm has been honored by the FBI for her work protecting children from sex trafficking. Kimberly Ritter will travel to FBI headquarters in Washington in April to receive the 2012 Director's Community Leadership Award. According to a statement from the FBI, Ritter, in her job with Nix Conference & Meeting Management based in Maplewood, has opportunities to raise awareness about sex trafficking with hotel general managers. "Ms. Ritter first became aware of the problem four-and-a-half years ago when a client wanted to know if the hotel she was booking for…
Thursday, August 23, 2012
UPDATE 7:05 P.M.: The U.S. Senate candidate has been under fire since his weekend comments on "forcible rape", despite an apology for the remarks. His spokesperson confirms the threats are real.
KTVI-TV is reporting that Todd Akin, the Wildwood Republican who has been under intense pressure since his weekend comments on "forcible rape" threatened to derail his U.S. Senate bid against Claire McCaskill, is now fending off more than calls to quit the race. At 6:34 p.m. Thursday, Patch received the following confirmation from Steve Taylor, Akin's district communication director: “I can verify that the Capitol police are working with an outside law enforcement agency regarding threatening contact with our official office. The office of Congressman Akin has received threats of rape of his official staff, family and the Congressman himself along with suggestions that individuals should die.” KTVI and other outlets say the U.S. …
Sunday, July 8, 2012
The headline sounds pretty scary, but a malware called DNSChanger could knock thousands off the Internet Monday. Here's how to make sure your computer is not one.
Monday could be D-Day for your computer, but then again, we’ve heard that before. Monday’s threat is a malware virus called DNSChanger, which threatens to lock out tens of thousands of people from Internet access. It also has the potential to search out private information. Sorry to be a source of a culture of fear, but it's better safe than sorry, right? According to the FBI, the trojan virus will divert users from legitimate ISP servers to malicious sites that will alter their Domain Namer Server, which is the unique address of your computing device. Without access to the correct DNS and DNS servers, you would not be able to access websites, send email, or use any other Internet services. A Huffington Post report citing FBI data …
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7:37 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
As stated above, the independent fact checkers disagree with you. Playing up incitement over bizarre extrapolations that Obama is involved with infaticide, is an act of desparation. Perhaps the media didn't cover it to your liking because they allotted so much time to the birtherism. more ›