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A Deltona, Florida man who stalked the six-year-old daughter of his neighbor with creepy promises, like 'I'm going to make you famous,' was arrested on Sunday and charged with aggravated harassment. Mark Greenburg, 55, who lives on Fayson Circle, has racked up 11 complaints over the last eight months from about a dozen neighbors who feared for their children's safety, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. He would yell at kids and their parents using a megaphone and drive past their houses while recording the children playing outside with his cell phone, authorities said. On Friday, the father of...

Greenburg and his father reportedly kept a dossier on 47 parents who dared to speak out against his policies at school board meetings — a dossier complete with Social Security numbers, background checks, a divorce paper, mortgage documents, trade certifications, and screenshots of Facebook posts. The lawsuit claims that the defendants "misused District resources and what should have been private, protected parent communications to the District to retaliate against Plaintiffs for their protected speech." The dossier also includes videos showing a man taking photographs of parents and children in the hours before a school board meeting. "Somewhere around here we...

Parent and school board candidate Amy Carney called the dossier 'retaliation' More than 600 parents in Scottsdale, Arizona, are demanding the resignation of the school board president after a shocking revelation. The president, or possibly his father, appears to have kept a dossier on 47 parents who dared to speak out against his policies at school board meetings — a dossier complete with Social Security numbers, background checks, a divorce paper, mortgage documents, trade certifications, and screenshots of Facebook posts. "I'd call this retaliation," Amy Carney, a mother of six and candidate for the Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) governing...

The stepson of a former Democratic state lawmaker is charged with assaulting a police officer and planning sophisticated attacks against police. The video of the assault, which showed an officer hit in the helmet with a bat, went viral after a night of intense, escalating violence against police officers. Jacob Greenberg, 19, is in King County jail on charges of assault in the first degree, attempted arson in the first degree, and reckless burning in the first degree (a charge from an earlier case). Note: charging documents misspell his last name as “Greenburg.” His alleged accomplice has been identified as...

Things that make you go Hmmmmmm... First, the Tuscon shooting. An anti-immigration Judge just happens to be in the line of fire Ashley Turton, a former senior aide to Rep. Rosa DeLauro and an energy company lobbyist is ‘burned in her car’. The car just happened to ‘crash into the garage of a home in the 800 block of A Street SE....When the fire was extinguished, firefighters discovered Turton’s body inside the car” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/ashley-turton-dead-car_n_806780.html And today, there was a deal that just happened to get done... Deal Profile: Duke, Progress Agree to $13.7 Billion Deal http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/01/10/deal-profile-duke-progress-agree-to-137-billion-deal/ Business Lunch: Duke Energy...

[Excerpt] When the Atlantic sought a portrait of GOP presidential nominee John McCain for the cover of its October 2008 issue, the magazine called self-described "hard-core Democrat" Jill Greenberg, who took the opportunity to purposefully make McCain look bad, including snapping a shot in which the candidate looms like a horror-movie monster. Greenberg, whose website – www.manipulator.com – advertises her heavily retouched photography style, told the editors of Photo District News that she chose to omit even a standard, complimentary retouching of McCain's photos. "I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad," she said. According to a report...

CHIEF GREENBERG RETIRES Health concerns cited as reason for departure BY DAVID SLADE Of The Post and Courier Staff Links to additional stories below.Reuben M. Greenberg was hired in 1982 to run a police department dispirited by the suicide of the previous chief in a city struggling with racial tension and high crime rates. In the more than 23 years that followed, Greenberg turned the Charleston Police Department into a national model. In the process, he became a celebrity and a source of pride for the city, though he had his share of critics. Mayor Joe Riley, who hired Greenberg,...