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KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland - 2 hours 0 minutes ago
GRESHAM, Ore. (AP) -- Two 18-year-old men are charged with harassment and disorderly conduct after Gresham police say they made threats on MySpace about shooting up their old school. Martin Varsamas of Gresham and Keith Nelson of Troutdale pleaded not guilty at their arraignment Tuesday and are each being held on $500,000 bail. Varsamas and Nelson attended Sam Barlow High School in Gresham. Sgt ...
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KOIN News 6 Portland - 2 hours 2 minutes ago
GRESHAM, Ore. - Gresham police arrested two former Sam Barlow High School students after they plotted on MySpace to lodge a shooting attack at the school. Now the men are saying they weren't serious.
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Portland Tribune - Wed Nov 25, 3:19 pm ET
Two former Barlow High School students have been arrested on accusations related to alleged threats on MySpace.com to shoot and kill school officials and students. Martin J. Varsamas, 18, of Gresham, and Keith U. Nelson, 18, of Troutdale, were arrested Monday, Nov. 23, and each was charged with ...
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KATU Portland - Wed Nov 25, 3:02 pm ET
Monday was a mad day at Gresham's Sam Barlow High. In what police describe as one teen's test of MySpace monitoring, two former students used their MySpace accounts to make comments that landed both in jail and had officers swarming the school.
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The Oregonian - Wed Nov 25, 2:50 pm ET
Police did not recover any guns or evidence of an imminent plan to attack Sam Barlow High School, but are taking the postings on MySpace seriously.
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The Argus-Press - Wed Nov 25, 1:18 pm ET
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY - As the decade nears its end, social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have shown that they not only have staying power, but that they have revolutionized how people interact.
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Rolling Stone - Wed Nov 25, 12:03 pm ET
The making of a teen-angst guru in the Age of MySpace It's just past noon in Atlanta, where the Warped Tour is in full swing, but already Jamie Tworkowski has hugged 79 people, posed for 56 photographs, signed 42 autographs, blotted the tears of 13 young girls (and two teenage boys), and heard the words "you saved my life" at least a dozen times. He has seen phrases he wrote tattooed on torsos ...
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ScreenCrave - Wed Nov 25, 11:27 am ET
The Hughes Brothers upcoming film, The Book of Eli has a new poster that’s just debuted on Myspace, and it features the title character Eli, as played by two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington. The sci-fi epic will hit theaters on January 15, 2010, and co-stars Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, and Jennifer Beals. Check out the poster [...]
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TechCrunch - Wed Nov 25, 7:55 am ET
The evolution of Twitter clients have been speeding along. While Twitter is the fundamental platform that formed a base for many applications, such as TweetDeck, Seesmic, PeopleBrowsr and Sobees, these platforms soon looked to other social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and FriendFeed for additional integration. And many have conquered all mediums, with desktop, web and mobile apps. In fact ...
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The Andover Townsman - Wed Nov 25, 6:08 am ET
Are you clueless about Facebook and what might be posted on your teen's page? John Maver, an expert in online social networking sites, including Myspace, Bebo and Facebook, will host a workshop for parents on Dec. 3.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer - Wed Nov 25, 5:53 am ET
Blue Bar welcomes all walks of life and makes no qualms about being open to "all ages (over 21), races and sexual orientation" - as their MySpace page rightly proclaims, "it's 2009 people."
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Suburban Journals - Wed Nov 25, 3:42 am ET
Prosecutors say they will not appeal the dismissal of Lori Drew's convictions in a MySpace hoax directed at 13-year-old Megan Meier, a Dardenne Prairie resident who committed suicide in 2006.
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Coming Soon - Wed Nov 25, 2:02 am ET
MySpace has debuted this new poster for the Hughes brothers' The Book of Eli , opening in theaters on January 15.
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KAIT Jonesboro - Wed Nov 25, 12:05 am ET
A mother urges parents to take a closer look at what your child is doing on social networking sites like MySpace.
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WFMY News 2 Greensboro - Tue Nov 24, 9:16 pm ET
A teen's photos were taken off Myspace and manipulated to include pornographic content. But there is nothing the police can do. So, what steps do you take to protect your children online?