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Mystery man set to testify in Rutgers bullying trial

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) – The mystery man whose homosexual tryst with Tyler Clementi is at the center of a privacy invasion trial prepared to testify as early as Thursday against the former Rutgers student accused of using a webcam to spy on them in a dorm room. He…

Hurricane Irene batters New York

Hurricane Irene lashed New York Sunday, shutting down America’s largest city and flooding outlying communities after killing at least nine people along the US east coast. The first hurricane to hit the Big Apple for a generation crashed into Manhattan’s skyscrapers overnight, accompanied by lightning, reports of tornados and near…

NJ senator calls for anti-bully law after suicide

NJ senator calls for federal anti-bullying legislation after student’s bridge suicide leap Colleges should adopt a code of conduct that prohibits bullying and harassment in the wake of the suicide of a Rutgers University student whose gay sexual encounter in his dorm room was streamed online, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg…

Two arrested in anti-gay beating at famed NY gay bar

2 arrested in anti-gay beating at NYC bar where 1969 riot helped spur gay rights movement A patron at the Stonewall Inn, a powerful symbol of the gay rights movement since protests over a 1969 police raid there, was tackled to the floor and beaten in an anti-gay bias attack…

Student’s suicide after being filmed having gay sex a ‘hate crime’: group

A New Jersey college student jumped to his death off a bridge a day after authorities say two classmates surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it over the Internet. Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge last week,…