A Long Island politician has dropped a federal lawsuit that had claimed the search engine company Google Inc. profits from child pornography.
A former Roman Catholic priest convicted of sending pornographic images to a sheriff's investigator posing as a teenage boy has been sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison.
The battle over a virtual red-light district is entering another round.
Authorities on Monday arrested a 28-year-old man who was accused at a federal hearing in April of molesting a teenage boy.
Seconds after she announces her presence in an online chat room, the girl is besieged by a half-dozen men who want to know more about her.

Hollywood has been tiptoeing its way toward letting consumers buy a movie online, burn it onto a DVD and watch it on a living-room TV. While the studios hesitate, the adult film industry is taking the leap.
A Long Island politician sued Google Inc. on Thursday claiming the search engine leader is profiting from illegal child pornography.
The retired schoolteacher who denied watching porn, wrestling and gangsta rap on pay-per-view and disputed her $1,126 cable bill has won her battle with Cablevision — and an apology.
A second Army paratrooper pleaded guilty Monday to charges stemming from an investigation of soldiers who appeared on a military-themed pornographic Web site.
A 62-year-old retired schoolteacher is fighting with a cable company over a hefty bill for porn and gangsta rap programming she says she never ordered.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales used strikingly graphic language Thursday to focus attention on online child pornography and said Internet services companies are not doing enough to combat the problem.

The industry's VIPs mingle at political galas and Super Bowl parties. Their product is available on cell phones, podcasts, and particularly the Internet — there it's an attraction like no other, patronized by tens of millions of Americans.
The headquarters office of a senior NASA manager was searched and computer equipment was seized in a child pornography investigation, according to court documents and an online report.
The German state of Bavaria on Tuesday announced a ban on the use of cell phones in schools to prevent students from viewing images of pornography and extreme violence.

Participants in an international Internet chat room transmitted live visuals of child molestation and traded thousands of pictures of child pornography, federal authorities said Wednesday in announcing charges against 27 people.
A federal program that identifies alleged child molesters by publicizing their photographs has led to a life sentence for a five-time sex offender.
A group of paratroopers from the elite 82nd Airborne Division have been moved from their regular barracks while military officials investigate allegations that they appeared on a gay pornography Web site, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
A man who was stopped for driving erratically on a divided highway was distracted because he was looking at pornography, authorities said.