About 9,000 Canadian computers face infection threat Monday

About 9,000 Canadian-owned computers could be infected and lose access to websites, e-mail and social networking on Monday when the FBI shuts down temporary servers used to stop a scam, experts say.
Overall some 300,000 computers, most of them in the United States, Italy and India, could be infected and lose their Internet service, Queen’s University associate professor Thomas Dean said Friday.

Lancaster County suffers through violent 6 months

LANCASTER, S.C. (AP) — A mother shot in front of her three children. A former major league baseball played gunned down during an argument. An 87-year-old woman stabbed to death by her great-grandson after she refused to give him money. Two convicted felons who gunned each other down during a drug deal.

Authorities said they are less than half of the toll from a deadly six months in Lancaster County, which has seen 11 people killed by others in the first six months of 2012, more than all the homicides in 2010 and 2011 combined. The county is four times smaller than the state's largest counties, but is on pace to have a homicide rate closer to South Carolina's major cities.

The Lancaster County sheriff blames drugs and repeat offenders, while officials in the city of Lancaster blame the bad economy. But for the people who live in the neighborhoods not far from the stabbings and the shootings, all those factors can take the blame and none of them look to get better any time soon.

Baby dies, another suffers heat-related seizure when parents leave them in hot cars

Both incidents took place in Indianapolis, where temperatures reached 104 degrees on Saturday. The parents have been charged with counts of felony neglect.

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Mug shots of Meg. E. Trueblood, 30, and Joshua Stryzanski, 18.

A baby girl is dead and another is clinging to life after their parents left them roasting in hot cars amid record-setting temperatures near Indianapolis Sunday, in separate incidents.

The Love Letter That Shook Hip-Hop

Even as rap has grown more tolerant, it's shied away from talking directly about same-sex relationships—and love in general. That's why Frank Ocean's coming-out note is important.

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The letter entitled "Thank You's" released by R&B singer Frank Ocean earlier this week will not be forgotten. In it, Ocean reveals that he has been with and cared for both men and women, and that his first love was a man. It is not the entertainment industry standard "I'm gay" or "I'm bisexual" announcement; it can't be snipped into a sound bite or contained in a headline on the front of tabloid. The letter is alive. It sucks the air out of the room when you read it. And as hip-hop journalist Dream Hampton writes, "it is about love." That focus on love—perhaps more than the revelations it contains—is why it's radical.