Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:35:34 +0000

Dustin McCombs heckled the law, and the law won. The young fugitive was wanted on forcible rape charges by the Jefferson County Sherriff’s Office in Alabama. Unable to locate McCombs, the authorities turned to social media, posting an image of McCombs on the department’s Facebook page. The first person to respond was McCombs himself. “and [sic] a good thing I moved out of state,” read McCombs post. The Sheriff’s Office immediately began engaging McCombs online, responding that it “doesn’t matter where …

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:00:11 +0000

In messy divorce cases, splitting spouses can present a wide array of documents and evidence to convince a judge to tilt the scales in their favor. Now, the ever-increasing popularity of smartphones means more and more people are carrying around veritable factories of evidence admissible before the court. A recent survey of divorce attorneys found that 92 percent of them have seen the use of smartphones increasing as evidence in divorce court over the last three years. The survey, conducted …

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:39:21 +0000

Since the FBI launched its 10 Most Wanted list in 1950, 494 fugitives have had the dubious distinction of being featured—and 94 percent of those have been apprehended. Perhaps with those impressive statistics in mind, the federal government launched a new most-wanted list last month that features some of the country’s worst deadbeat parents. Among those in the spotlight: Robert Sand: Listed as the “most wanted deadbeat,” Sand owes more than $1 million in child support for three children from …