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The 26-year-old Philadelphia man who created Facebook pages titled "Kill Mitt Romney" and "Kill Seth Williams" was being sought Monday for criminal solicitation to commit murder and other offenses, authorities said. Joshua Scott Albert first stirred anger last month with a Facebook page titled "I Support Chancier McFarland & Rafael Jones," referring to the men charged with the murder of Officer Moses Walker Jr. Albert, who won brief notoriety as the man behind an anonymous blog about Philadelphia's restaurant industry, gained the attention of the Secret Service, who investigated him for his "Kill Mitt Romney" page.

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After a bitter fight with her child's father, police said, a Southwest Philadelphia woman took to her Facebook wall and offered $1,000 to anyone who would murder her ex. London Eley, 20, didn't have to wait long. Timothy Bynum, 18, of Darby, soon volunteered for the job. The hit was never carried out, but police believe the plot was more than just idle talk. When officers arrested Bynum on Friday, they found a loaded .22 caliber handgun in his apartment, with the serial number partially obliterated.

Authorities in South Jersey have issued subpoenas to Facebook as they investigate menacing threats made earlier this week over the social networking site to students attending a Gloucester County high school. The postings - made by someone calling himself David Prezet - were reported on Tuesday to police in Harrison Township. According to students at Clearview Regional High School in Mullica Hill, "Prezet" threatened to "blast everyone in the school. " Students said yesterday they were on edge because the poster indicated he was coming to the school that day. Superintendent John Horchak III said the poster claimed he was going to enroll that day. That did not happen.

DEAR ABBY: I recently attended a baby shower for a dear high-school friend and his wife. The day after the shower, she posted a slide show on Facebook titled "Thanks for All Our Gifts" with a picture of each gift and who gave it. She has had numerous miscarriages and held this shower at five months, knowing the baby is not yet at a viable stage. Although I feel sympathy for her fertility issues, and especially for her husband who desperately wants to be a father, I think this is a bid for attention.

Lawyer A. Charles Peruto Jr. posted some strong words on a Facebook posting about a former Philadelphia judge involved in an assault case that Peruto won. Former Common Pleas Judge Leslie Fleisher had alleged that an ex-boyfriend, former police detective Lewis B. Palmer III, had assaulted her. Palmer, represented by Peruto, was found not guilty Wednesday of the assault. In the Facebook posting, Peruto wrote: "Dear Judge Fleisher, he who laughs last, laughs best. Up your ass. " Commenting on a reference to the fact that he gave a couple of arguments while sprawled on the courtroom floor, Peruto wrote: "Anything for a not guilty!

SETH WILLIAMS isn't liking Facebook too much at the moment. On Monday, the district attorney called a news conference to ask the social-media site to remove a Philadelphia man's page that urges people to "kill rats. " Williams said that the man, Freddie Henriquez, used the site to solicit the killing of a witness in a criminal case involving purchases of illegal firearms. Williams said that he sent a letter to Facebook founder and chief executive Marc Zuckerberg asking him to remove the page and deactivate the Facebook account.

Neil Geckle posted on his Facebook page that he likes to come home and "relieve myself of the days stresses" by looking at his Twi'lek bikini calendar. According to "Wookieepedia" — the Star Wars version of Wikipedia — the Twi'leks are a humanoid race of aliens, and the females are considered exceptionally beautiful. As strange as that is, Radnor police said Geckle, 19, had an even more disturbing pastime. He allegedly took photos of high school girls from Facebook, masturbated to them and then took pictures of his penis next to each girl's photo after the act. He then posted those photos to the girls' Facebook pages, police said.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When Facebook goes public — as it's expected to do this week in what is almost certain to be the biggest stock debut for an Internet company — it will be more than a financial milestone. It will also reflect how tightly a company launched eight years ago in a college dorm room has been woven into the fabric of society. In its ability to shape how people around the world communicate, debate, shop, entertain, and inform themselves, Facebook may be the biggest technological advance since broadcast television.

LOS ANGELES - Tom Byron used to spend a couple of hours each day playing games on Facebook, attending to his virtual diners in "Restaurant City" and waging war against the Raven in "Empires & Allies. " "I'd check into these games every chance I got," said the 50-year-old marketing executive in San Rafael, Calif., who played four or more Facebook games at a time. "Now I spend most of my game time on my iPhone. It's just more convenient to be able to grab my phone. " It's not just players such as Byron who have wandered away from Facebook.