AP source: Authorities had concerns about suspected shooter, reviewed Internet postings

AP sources: Authorities had concerns about suspect

Police: Internet postings threaten violence against witnesses in UConn player’s killing

STORRS, Conn. — University of Connecticut police say witnesses to the killing of football player Jasper Howard are being threatened with violence if they come forward with evidence.

Federal judge says ‘Adult Services’ postings on Craigslist don’t always advertise prostitution

CHICAGO — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit aimed at driving classified ads for prostitution off the Craigslist Web site.

Western NY teen charged with false report after using ketchup to fake suicide live online

CLARENCE, N.Y. — A 17-year-old boy in western New York has been charged with a misdemeanor after he put ketchup on his arms and faked his suicide on a live video Web site, police said.

Missouri man accused of drugging girls with ice cream, making pornographic videos of them

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 60-year-old man plied young girls with ice cream and soda spiked with sedatives and made seminude videos of them that he stored in a computer file named “Consuming the Date Rape Drug,” authorities said.

Comcast tries pop-up alerts to warn Internet users of PC infections in possibly risky tactic

PHILADELPHIA — Comcast Corp. wants to enlist its customers in a fight against a huge problem for Internet providers — the armies of infected personal computers, known as “botnets,” that suck up bandwidth by sending spam and facilitating cybercrime.

Briton accused of hacking US military computers fails in latest attempt to avoid extradition

LONDON — A British man accused of hacking into American military computers has failed in his latest bid to avoid extradition to the U.S., his lawyer said Friday.

Oregon man accused of using Internet to arrange group sex assaults

NEWBERG, Ore. — A 44-year-old man was accused of rape, sodomy, sexual abuse and a variety of other sex-related crimes, including posting Craiglist ads to solicit others to join in group assaults on a teenage girl, authorities said Wednesday.

Arresting child-porn suspects is ‘like shooting fish in a barrel’ _ if police have the will

BARTOW, Fla. — When a single Florida county arrested 45 men and boys from all walks of life last June on charges of downloading child pornography, some people worried the place had become a haven for deviants.

House members look for ways to stop Internet bullying while surviving court scrutiny

WASHINGTON — House members struggled Wednesday for a way to stop Internet bullying of children without violating free speech.

Calif. police review the computer of Canadian reality contestant suspected in wife’s killing

BUENA PARK, Calif. — Police are reviewing the computer of a reality show contestant suspected of killing an ex-model, packing her disfigured body in a suitcase and leaving her in a trash bin in Southern California.

Man pleads guilty to having child pornography on computer at border

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont man pleaded guilty Friday to charges he had child pornography on his laptop computer when he entered the United States from Quebec nearly three years ago.

Google acquires Carnegie Mellon’s Web anti-fraud tool also used to digitize books

PITTSBURGH — Google has acquired a Carnegie Mellon University spin-off that seeks to cut down on spam and fraud at Web sites while digitizing books.

Cyber criminals increasingly target small businesses; Feds beef up private cooperation

WASHINGTON — Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small and medium-sized businesses that don’t have the resources to keep updating their computer security, according to federal authorities.

Police study blueprints, computer in search for Yale student who vanished days before wedding

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Investigators searching for a Yale University graduate student who disappeared days before her wedding were reviewing security-camera footage, checking building blueprints and examining her computer, a Yale spokesman said Friday.

Judge finalizes dismissal of Web hoax charges

LOS ANGELES — A judge has finalized his decision to throw out convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in an Internet hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who committed suicide.

Man charged with stealing 130M credit card numbers in record identity theft

WASHINGTON — A former government informant known online as “soupnazi” stole information from 130 million credit and debit card accounts in what federal prosecutors are calling the largest case of identity theft yet.

‘We close at 5′: Texas judge who closed court as death-row appeal was drafted faces trial

SAN ANTONIO — As lawyers frantically tried to file the last-minute appeal that could have halted the execution of a death row inmate, the Texas judge who oversaw the only court who could hear it was preparing to shut the doors for the day.