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The Alameda County Grand Jury recommended in its annual report Friday that the city of Oakland adopt more stringent accounting requirements for travel expenses.

Ryan Tracy thought he'd entered the Dark Ages when he graduated from college and arrived in the working world.

The Southern Poverty Law Center today sent a letter to members of Congress asking for an investigation into "the threat posed by racial extremists who may be serving in the military to ensure that our armed forces are not inadvertently training future domestic terrorists." The SPLC says it has found "dozens of personal profiles of individuals ...

Fans of the Royal Family can sign up to follow their activities on the online social networking site Twitter from today.

The diminishing prospects of MySpace, once the dominate social network, are pushing parent company News Corp.

Over 5,000 Africans have sent text messages to US President Barack Obama ahead of his much anticipated speech in Ghana on Saturday during his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa.

AOL , which is in the process of being spun off from Time Warner , is reviewing assets it could sell or divest, but will likely keep its social networking site Bebo, AOL's chief executive Tim Armstrong told Reuters.

The Boulder County district attorney has been cleared to use Twitter to post updates during an upcoming murder trial.

One of the country's main monitors of hate groups asked Congress Friday to investigate possible racial extremism in the military, after finding U.S. service members participating on a social networking site advertised as being for white people only.

A Brazilian company is handing the world's biggest online hangout a counterpunch.

New York's attorney general says that Tagged.com stole millions of Internet users' identities with e-mails that raided their private accounts.

Chicago Public Library, using human energy to power a mobile WiFi Library Lounge this wknd. Sign up! http://a2a.me/XV9

I like to get advice from friends on all sorts of things, and love to give it even more.

When riots broke out in the restive west this week, China took a different tack with foreign journalists: Instead of being barred, reporters were invited on an official tour of Xinjiang's capital.

Hell no ... News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch has no intentions of buying Twitter or selling Myspace.

More than 8,000 people have already signed petitions demanding a reprieve for Kilmarnock's threatened Diageo whisky bottling plant.

China's president cut short a G8 summit trip to rush home Wednesday after ethnic tensions soared in Xinjiang territory, and the government flooded the area with security forces in the wake of a massive riot that left 156 dead.

A glittering gold-plated casket carried Michael Jackson on his final journey Tuesday as a worldwide audience in the hundreds of millions paid an emotional farewell to the tragic King of Pop.

Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has quietly dropped his lawsuit against the social networking site Twitter Inc.

In some parental circles, it's known that the best way to pull teenagers from a particular hobby is to participate.