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If you go to your local dog park and call out the names Max, Lucky or Princess, you can bet that a few dogs will come running. But this is Brooklyn – so calling out names like Carmelo, Biggie, and even Brooklyn will also get you quite a bit of attention. … Full Article

The Boston Globe editorial, Jan. 18: … Full Article

Portraying his suicide as the product of injustice, friends and supporters at a memorial Saturday for free-information advocate Aaron Swartz called for changing computer-crime laws and the legal system itself. … Full Article

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday fined Russia $50,000 a day until it complies with his earlier order that the country return historical books and documents the court maintains are the property of the Brooklyn-based Chabad-Lubavitch movement. … Full Article

Bonnie Crosby, a Brooklyn native, was born January 17, 1940, and lived at 3108 Brighton 5th Street until she was in the 3rd grade.  She currently lives in Naples, Florida, and this week celebrates her 73rd birthday.   … Full Article

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz was "killed by the government," his father told mourners Tuesday during his son's funeral in suburban Chicago. … Full Article

BOSTON — A lawyer who formerly represented Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz on hacking charges said Monday he told federal prosecutors about a year ago that Swartz was a suicide risk. … Full Article

The family of a Reddit co-founder is blaming prosecutors for his suicide just weeks before he was to go on trial on federal charges that he stole millions of scholarly articles. … Full Article

The family of a Reddit co-founder who committed suicide weeks before he was to go on trial on federal charges that he stole millions of scholarly articles is blaming prosecutors for his death. … Full Article

Computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who helped develop RSS and co-founded Reddit, hanged himself in his Crown Heights, Brooklyn, apartment, his family in Chicago confirmed in a statement Saturday. … Full Article