(8 stories) OMG: Tweets, Facebook welcome in Mass. courtroom

Offbeat - News May 2, 2011 See Offbeat Weather OMG: Tweets, Facebook welcome in Mass. courtroom (WKYC) A Massachusetts courtroom is set to begin a new experiment on how to use new media to cover the courts. Osama Bin Laden Beats Federal Criminal Rap Thanks To Intercession of CIA, U.S. Military (The Smoking Gun) Thanks to the efforts of an elite team of American forces, Osama bin Laden will soon have criminal charges formally dismissed against him in federal court in New York City. Alaska teen rescued, jailed after ice floe voyage (Inside Bay Area) A teenager who took a trip down a river on an ice floe said Sunday that he's more bothered by the trip he took to jail afterward. Cockfighting Ring Busted At Kid's Party (MyFoxPhilly) Police busted a cockfighting ring in Texas that was using a children's party as its front, officials said Sunday. Fire Marshal Says Arson Is Not Victimless Crime (WCCO) State Fire Marshal Jerry Rosendahl is reminding citizens to be on the watch for arson, and report anything suspicious to authorities. White iPhone 4's Thickness-gate a fake: Schiller (examiner) Thickness-gate is a fake. That's what Apple SVP of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller has said via Twitter. Michele Bachmann Implies The Holocaust, Taxation, Are Analogous to Each Other (huliq) Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has been accused of being off the deep end before, but her latest statement is bound to cause a lot of flak: on Sunday's she used the Holocaust as an analogy when speaking about taxes. Obama posts 'birth video' online after White House Correspondents' Dinner (examiner) The White House Correspondents' Dinner is an annual tradition where the press and political elite meet to laugh, despite their differences. It was hosted by Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers, but the White House, social networking experts as they are (just remember the 2008 campaign) has gone all out this year. More Offbeat News...

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