the homicide report

Truth at Your Fingertips

A line from this CNN story sums it up well: "...most big-city newspapers....[report] only the most 'newsworthy' cases." Ah, but "newsworthy" to whom? To the publisher or editors of any particular big newspaper (or magazine or television, for that matter)? A story about a corrupt alderman, for example, may be considered to be very newsworthy to the residents of his ward - but not newsworthy to a big newspaper editor because it does not have "citywide appeal." In Los Angeles, the CNN story goes, read

Earthquake Rocks Google Too

The earthquake in Illinois earlier today also sent shock waves through Google generating 70% of their top 100 searches this morning at Google’s US web search engine according to Google Trends. Searches for earthquake related news and information are noted in italics below Apr 18, 2008 Updated 40 minutes ago 1. the homicide report 2. new madrid fault 3. usgs 4. earthquake 5. illinois earthquake 6. earthquake aftershock 7. midwest earthquake 8. chicago earthquake 9. us geological sur read

The Homicide Report

Jill Leovy of Los Angeles Times documents homicide in L.A. through her blog. The blog started out with 17 names and reached 845 within a year. read

Quarterly Report: First Quarter of 2008 Podcast

I've had an extra two weeks to mull over the selections for this tardy podcast, as at the actual end of quarter one, my computer was in a deep and dramatic coma. The internet-less meditation crystalized a few things for me: - No matter how epic the Juan Maclean's "Happy House" is, there was no way to shoehorn thirteen minutes of early 90's techno into the mix smoothly. - If I couldn't remember a single song from an album well enough to not have to extensively review it before picking its read

Asbury police suspect murder of unidentified woman

Asbury police suspect murder of unidentified woman by The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk Friday April 18, 2008, 5:20 AM Asbury Park police are investigating a possible homicide in an apartment at 304 Fourth Ave that was reported Thursday afternoon, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press. The report said the female victim, whose identity has not been released, is believed to have died of a stab or puncture-type wound, police said. But a determination of the cause and manner of death w read