We’ve all seen those clever Capital One credit card commercials showing one person, but hearing another person’s voice, illustrating identity theft and fraud.  Has someone used your personal information to open credit cards accounts and not pay the bill?  The FTC estimates that as many as 9 million Americans have their identities stolen each year.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) _ California first lady Maria Shriver is among more than 30 celebrities and other high-profile patients who had their confidential records breached at UCLA Medical Center, medical officials said.
The woman responsible, whose name was not released, is the same employee who sneaked into actress Farrah Fawcett’s medical records, officials told the Los [...]

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By GREG RISLING Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Chris Rock testified at a private eye’s racketeering trial Friday that he hired the man to investigate a model who demanded money after claiming she was pregnant with his baby, and who later accused him of sexual assault.
Outlandish and animated on stage, the 43-year-old comedian looked [...]

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By JOE MANDAK Associated Press Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) _ A western Pennsylvania couple has sued Google Inc., saying pictures of their home on its Web site violate their privacy and devalued their property.
Images of the home Aaron and Christine Boring bought in the Pittsburgh suburb of Franklin Park in October 2006 appeared on Google’s ”Street View” [...]

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By:  LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ. 
According to U.S. Health Officials, 1 in 4 teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease.  The Center for Disease Control is recommending not only annual screening for the top std infections, but also vaccinations.  (See the news release here.)  HPV (Human Papillomavirus) is one of the leading stds in the report and [...]

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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) _ A federal judge has ordered Rep. Jim McDermott to pay House Minority Leader John Boehner more than $1 million in legal fees in a decade-long dispute over an illegally taped telephone call.
Chief Judge Thomas Hogan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered McDermott [...]

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By:  LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ
Ok, so now I’ve written about a break-ups and staying together….. but what happens when it doesn’t work out? What should you do?? Well, if your relationship ends, here’s one thing NOT to do….. Don’t be a stalker!!
Don’t call her endlessly. Don’t show up at her door unannounced. Don’t peer in her [...]

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By PAMELA HESS Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) _ A month after giving the Bush administration new latitude to conduct electronic surveillance on American soil, some in Congress are having second thoughts.
The Protect America Act, hastily approved by Congress in early August, gives ”largely unfettered authority to conduct surveillance on American citizens who were engaged in [...]

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