Websites

SALT LAKE CITY -- An Ohio man linked to the hacker collective "Anonymous" pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of breaching the websites of the Utah Chiefs of Police Association and the Salt Lake City Police Department.

John Anthony Borell III took credit for the attacks on Twitter, said FBI officials, who subpoenaed the direct messages the suspect traded with Salt Lake City reporters. The FBI traced Borell's Twitter account to a workplace computer.

LOS ANGELES -- Even some of Richard Alarcon's campaign supporters had to concede that the website slamming the politician was cleverly done.

The site had an interactive Monopoly-style board game that drew attention to the legal troubles of the Los Angeles city councilman, who is running for state Assembly this year.

A click on the video brings up a commentary about a grand jury's 18-count felony indictment against Alarcon and his wife, stemming from the district attorney's allegations that they lied about where they lived and voted fraudulently. It does not mention that the couple have pleaded not guilty to all counts and have not yet gone to trial.

MIAMI -- Online dating has brought romance to millions of men and women. And now, a new website for Jewish singles, Jewcier.com, operated by Miami Beach-based Avalanche, is geared to help even more people find love through the Internet.

VERNAL -- A former eastern Utah police chief faces a criminal defamation charge after prosecutors say he posted offensive comments about other law enforcement officers online using another chief's name.

LOS ANGELES -- Most people probably haven't paid much attention to the huge corporations waging war in Washington over legislation designed to crack down on online theft of movies, music and other content. But the conflict will hit consumers in the face Wednesday, when Wikipedia and several other websites intend to go dark to protest the proposed changes.

A few cool travel websites:

www.drive-alive.co.uk/fuel_prices_europe.html

Before you plan a driving trip in Europe, get a feel for how much fuel will cost. This site posts regular updates on prices for gasoline and diesel in European countries and the United Kingdom.

www.cruisetimetables.com

Check which ports are visited by which ships, and on what dates. You can search by port of call or departure port. If you really want to stop at a certain spot, this tells you which cruise

Genealogybank.com became the nation's first ancestry research firm to stop posting Social Security numbers online, after two people complained their privacy was violated when the Social Security Administration falsely listed them as deceased.

"We made the decision several weeks ago that we would rather err on the side of privacy," said Daniel Jones, vice president of consumer products for Newsbank.com, which owns the research service based in Naples, Fla. It made the change Nov. 8.

The nation's largest commercial genealogy research company -- Ancestry.com -- earlier this week also stopped posting Social Security numbers at the request of federal lawmakers. Four Democratic senators, in a Dec. 1 letter to the five biggest services, urged that they withhold some information they get from the federal government under the Freedom of Information Act.