EDGE on the Net

A hunky New York City teacher was fired for sending out clad photos of himself in response to Craigslist ads via his work email, which he shared with a fellow teacher.

Last month, John Katehis was convicted of killing George Weber, a radio show host, after meeting through a Craigslist ad. Despite Katehis’ attorney’s efforts, he will receive the maximum sentence of 25 years-to-life.

A Brooklyn jury found a teen guilty of second-degree murder for the stabbing of a WABC Radio newsman whom he met through Craigslist yesterday, the New York Post reports.

An appeals court’s verdict is the latest wrinkle in the back-and-forth story of a teacher for the San Diego Unified School District who was fired for posting an ad on Craiglist looking for sex with other men.

Craigslist has confirmed that it removed its controversial adult services section from its international sites, Connecticut’s attorney general said Tuesday, four months after it did the same for its U.S. sites.

The young man accused of killing a New York journalist during a sex-for-pay encounter last year was acting in self defense, his lawyer said in a pretrial hearing on Oct. 12.

Craiglist’s "adult services" section has been shut down in the U.S., but prostitution on the Internet is alive and well - even, quite possibly, on Craigslist.

Craigslist should remove its adult services section because the website cannot adequately block potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution and child trafficking, attorneys general in 17 states demanded Tuesday in a joint letter.

A Connecticut man who was feuding with his neighbor targeted her in an explicit online posting that invited strangers to a rowdy orgy with a bored soccer mom, police said.

A British man who had met what he thought was a prospective date online was assaulted, and his car vandalized, when he arrived at a park for an in-person encounter.