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The New York Times is working on a story saying open source programming makes you a criminal.

Matt Richtel (right) called for an interview soon…

AP - A federal court on Wednesday established a formula for determining the Internet royalties owed to thousands of music composers, writers and publishers by three major online services — Yahoo Inc., AOL and RealNetworks Inc.

D.C. police think the man who shot and wounded two people Tuesday at a technical school had a grander plan to commit mass murder and possibly die in a fiery shootout with police, law enforcement sources said yesterday.

As word spread early this year that a Pennsylvania man had scammed Montgomery County’s government out of a half-million dollars, two questions quickly surfaced: Who was he, and why did he do it?

* These crimes include vandalism, graffiti, simple assaults, drug possession and sex offenses.

The D.C. government is launching a system today that would tie together thousands of city-owned video cameras, but authorities don’t yet have the money to complete the high-tech network or privacy rules in place to guide it.

AP - The wife of a Texas Supreme Court justice was indicted for a second time Wednesday on charges connected to a fire that destroyed the couple’s suburban Houston home last summer.

Three men forced their way into an East San Jose home Tuesday evening, punched and tied up a 55-year-old woman and made off with cash and other property, police said.

Reuters - Inmates in 58 county jails across New
York are getting playing cards with the pictures of missing
persons in hopes the photos will jog memories and help solve
cold cases.

AP - A federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case of a former government-contractor employee accused of taking a $1 million kickback in an alleged conspiracy with a Kuwaiti businessman to defraud the U.S. military.