A janitor at this year's US Open has been charged with swiping two laptops from the SmashZone "fan interactive," and a search warrant of his apartment in Corona, Queens yielded a half-ounce of crack cocaine, marijuana, a loaded 9mm handgun, and three other laptops that were reported stolen from the US Open last year. Yet another salient lesson in quitting while you're ahead. more ›

An Ohio truck driver who was watching porn on his computer while driving and fatally collided with a disabled car on the New York State Thruway was sentenced to a minimum three years in jail. Thomas M. Wallace, 45, of Brook Park, Ohio, admitted he was tired and distracted by porn when he ran into and killed Julie I. Stratton, a 33-year-old mother of two, last winter. "Your conduct on this day, I can't think of any other way to say it, was just grossly, grossly irresponsible," said County Court Judge Robert C. Noonan. more ›

Pilots from the Northwest flight that overshot its Minneapolis destination overshot by over 100 miles spoke to investigators and, according to the Wall Street Journal, told them "that a bathroom break, chatting with a flight attendant in the cockpit and then taking out their laptops to discuss work schedules created distractions that led to more than an hour of radio silence with air-traffic controllers." Apparently the laptop use violated Northwest policy, though the federal rules don't ban them. Well, at least Pansing, Gooch, or Bumpus was involved. more ›