Local Chat: The Case That Framed The D.A.'s Career
IT was the catalyst for District Attorney Jeanine Pirro's crusade against Internet pedophiles, and it has reached its final resolution as her tenure winds down. On Wednesday, Robert D. DeRosario was convicted of the 1998 kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old Yonkers boy named Orlandito Rosario-Maldonado. Nearly seven years ago the police -- investigating a tip that Orlandito had last been seen alive with Mr. DeRosario -- seized Mr. DeRosario's computer. What...

Local chat rooms, downloading topic of advanced class
The debut of local Internet chat rooms will be discussed at a free intermediate/advanced Internet class to be taught by Sunline from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, November 19, at the Port Charlotte Cultural Center Theater.The class also will focus on the proper way to download and install various programs, including Quicktime and QTVR. These two programs play mini-movies and display interactive virtual reality. Discussion in the class also will center on compressed files, known as zipped...

Local Chat: BLOCKING CHAT LINES A PRIORITY RASH OF PROBLEMS INVOLVING MINORS PROMPTS STATE OFFICIALS TO REQUIRE ACTION.
Amid escalating concern from parents who fear their children may fall prey to sexual predators, a Rochester-based phone company is working on a plan to help parents block access from their home phones to local "chat lines."At the request of state officials, ACC Corp. of Rochester hopes to make the telephone chat lines "blockable" in the same way that calls to 1-900 numbers can be blocked, ACC spokesman Roger Cawley said. ACC leases several...

Local Chat: He turns down the flame
Attention all you scarred victims of the '90s flame wars: It's safe to come out now. Steve Crisp has departed the battlefield. Perhaps you remember Crisp. Ten years ago, he was an incendiary columnist for Technician, N.C. State University's campus newspaper. Later, in the early days of the Internet, Crisp was the guy who pillaged and burned his way through the various local chat rooms where people gathered electronically to chew over the issues of...

Local Chat: Chat rooms 'in' place for advice on safe sex
BLOOMINGTON - The HIV/AIDS fight has gone online. Another example of the new-generation assault against the virus and disease is trained counselors going into chat rooms frequented by people who try to meet sex partners online.Four counselors - two from the McLean County Health Department and two from the McLean County AIDS Task Force - visit chat rooms, prepared to answer questions, offer advice to keep people safer and point them to resources for help and testing....

Local Chat: At Metro, Some Crimes Don't Count; Statistics Exclude Incidents Handled by Local Police Departments
Byline: Lena H. Sun and Lyndsey Layton Metro transit officials undercount serious crime at the region's 86 rail stations, leaving dozens of assaults, ...

Local Chat: Instant-messaging software: iChat AV has nearly perfected the art of chat.(REVIEWS)(Product/Service Evaluation)
With e-mail systems overloaded by spam, always-on Internet connections on PDAs and cell phones becoming the norm, and superfast communication in ...

Local Chat: The Chat House; Sports News
Byline: Michael Wilbon Welcome to another edition of The Chat House where Post columnist Michael Wilbon talked about the latest in sports news. The transcript follows. ____________________

Local Chat: Ghost Town busting.(Going Local)
WHEN Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire lost its last bank branch three years ago, it didn't Just lose a convenient cash point: it also lost a bakery, ...