Facebook has been subpoenaed by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on charges of consumer fraud, the New York Times reported Sunday. Facebook claims that it is safer than rival social networking sites in protecting young users from sexual predators -- a claim refuted by Cuomo. The motion to subpoena Facebook, which Cuomo announced last week, came after the company failed to respond to multiple security criticisms by state investigators and undercover officials who posed as child users on the site and were reportedly approached by sexual predators. Facebook spokesperson Brandee Barker said that the company is "constantly working on processes and technologies that will further improve the safety and user control on the site."
Classes were canceled Monday at the University of Memphis after 21-year-old football player, Taylor Bradford, was shot and killed on Sunday. The shooting occurred near a campus residential area and the victim was discovered about 200 yards away in his car, which he drove into a tree. Homicide detectives had yet to identify suspects or a motive in the case as of Monday afternoon. Police believe that the shooting was motivated by personal grievances and that the shooter fled the campus immediately after the incident. The university still deemed it necessary to cancel classes on Monday as a precaution. "We feel like the campus is safe, but we'd rather err on the side of safety than not," university spokesman Curt Gunther told the Associated Press.
In an attempt to prevent the spread of rabies to Canada, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has vaccinated 1,000 raccoons in Vermont since February, the Associated Press reported Monday. The USDA's rabies management program, which began in 1997, aims to increase the population of non-rabid animals living in the Lake Champlain region. The program initially relied on a 30-mile wide rabies vaccine zone which was created by placing medicated bait across New York, Vermont and New Hampshire. In their new effort, USDA wildlife specialists now capture, tranquilize, draw blood, vaccinate, tag and release individual raccoons. It is rare for humans to be infected by rabies, but if contracted, the disease is usually fatal.