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Lori Drew garnered headlines after being painted as a vindictive mother whose online actions allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide.

But when jury selection begins Tuesday in a Los Angeles federal courtroom, a judge said he would instruct jurors that the case is about whether the 49-year-old Missouri mother violated the terms of service of the MySpace social networking site, not about whether she caused the suicide of Megan Meier.

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A defense attorney for the Missouri woman charged in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide argued in court papers that prosecutors are bending a cybercrime statute to prosecute his client.

At issue is whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is relevant to the case against Lori Drew of O'Fallon, Mo. Prosecutors filed voluminous motions last week arguing the statute can be used to prosecute cyberbullying, though it has traditionally been used for crimes such as hacking into computers.

An attorney for a Missouri woman charged in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide filed motions Wednesday to dismiss the federal case.

Three motions were filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of Lori Drew of the St. Louis suburb of O'Fallon, her attorney H. Dean Steward told The Associated Press.

Drew is accused of helping create a false-identity account on the MySpace social networking site to convince young neighbor Megan Meier she was chatting with a teenage boy.

Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."

In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: Someone posted them on the social networking site Facebook. And that offered remarkable evidence for Jay Sullivan, the prosecutor handling Lipton's drunken-driving case.

The online social networking trend seems destined to get together somehow with the handheld, GPS-equipped device.

Gather.com founder and Bethel Park native Tom Gerace envisions this. He's mapped out a relationship, in fact.

By year's end, Gerace said his Boston-based networking site will allow owners of the upcoming iPhone 3G to share their locations with friends, former co-workers -- anyone with whom they keep in touch -- via the phone's global positioning system feature. Apple will start selling its latest iPhone July 11.

You're sitting at home online, and suddenly you get an irresistible urge. You absolutely have to belt out R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly" and share it with the world.

You now have that ability, thanks to the new MySpace Karaoke, to be launched Tuesday by the social networking site.

RealNetworks is quietly introducing a version of Scrabble on Facebook, despite pledging to save Scrabulous, the wildly popular, unauthorized online version of the board game.

In recent weeks, Gamehouse, a division of RealNetworks, introduced "Scrabble by Mattel" on the social networking site Facebook. The game is technically available only to players outside the United States and Canada, though it relies on users to be honest about their location to make that distinction.