A Kentucky man sets a woman's house on fire, allegedly because she rejected his advances on Facebook. » 12/23/14 10:30am 12/23/14 10:30am

A man who's already been convicted once for stalking Ashanti's mother is on trial yet again, this time for harassing the singer and her sister in a variety of terrifying and creepy ways. This time he's representing himself, meaning that on Tuesday he got to cross-examine the object of his obsession and her family… » 12/17/14 2:30pm 12/17/14 2:30pm

A Philadelphia area cop with a history of stalking was arrested for shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend on Monday. » 12/17/14 12:30pm 12/17/14 12:30pm

Ever wanted to really get to know the people with whom you are trapped, encased in a tin can hurtling through the sky for any number of hours? Me neither, but this app is offering it anyway! » 10/29/14 1:50pm 10/29/14 1:50pm

An unidentified French man was sentenced this week to 10 months in jail for a campaign of harassment against his former girlfriend, which resulted in the tens of thousands of calls and texts in less than a year. » 9/05/14 9:45am 9/05/14 9:45am

A 37-year-old Boston woman's security camera captured footage of a peeping tom coming right up to her ground-floor bedroom window while she was in the shower. Local police have released the footage hoping the public can help identify the creep. » 8/19/14 11:20am 8/19/14 11:20am

Helen DeWitt, the author of the wonderful novels The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods (seriously! wonderful!), has an essay in the London Review of Books this week about her experience with a stalker. It's a sobering but necessary read. » 8/07/14 3:18pm 8/07/14 3:18pm

Business networking site LinkedIn has finally enabled a feature that allows its members to block other users. » 2/25/14 11:40am 2/25/14 11:40am

Genevieve Sabourin, a 41-year-old actress, has been sentenced to six months in prison for stalking and harassing Alec Baldwin, plus 30 days for contempt of court. Sabourin claims that she and Baldwin had a "brief romance," and she was simply trying to find out why he chose to hit it and then subsequently quit… » 11/14/13 4:10pm 11/14/13 4:10pm

A recent magazine feature on a man with Asperger syndrome who's currently in jail for pining after the girl of his dreams — who, in his mother's words, "became a nightmare" since he met her 20 years ago — implies that he's the real victim. The woman he's stalked since middle school feels differently. » 7/31/13 4:25pm 7/31/13 4:25pm

When you become romantically interested in a guy you just met what's the first thing you do? Google him. Find him on Facebook. You gather intel (a series of photos in which he's seemingly very familiar with a pretty young woman?) which you then analyze (oh, OK, she's just his sister) to create a composite of his life… » 5/15/13 11:30am 5/15/13 11:30am

After Foursquare cut off access on Saturday to the charming "Girls Around Me" app that made it possible to view the location of women on a map and their publicly available Facebook data and pictures, app's Russian developer, i-Free Innovations, issued a statement defending its right to streamline predatory stalking.… » 4/01/12 12:00pm 4/01/12 12:00pm

If you're a woman and you've been outside, chances are, someone has whistled, hollered, or muttered "daaaaaaaaaamn" — unsolicited — at you. Street harassment is so prevalent that Hollaback factions have sprung up around the world. Unwanted sexual attention is offensive, irritating, intimidating, depressing and… » 3/08/12 2:50pm 3/08/12 2:50pm

Part of me thinks it's too soon to be writing about this because I don't think I've completely processed how I feel, but I also think maybe this has happened to other women and I should talk about it in as raw a way as possible. I'm still really embarrassed and ashamed and garbled up inside, but maybe this can start a… » 2/22/12 6:15pm 2/22/12 6:15pm

A Minnesota investigation has found that police in the Land of 10,000 lakes are using the state's DMV database like non-cop internet perverts use Facebook — as their own stalking wonderland, a veritable cornucopia of pictures of unsuspecting hotties ripe for the gawking. One woman was horrified to discover that… » 2/22/12 2:55pm 2/22/12 2:55pm

It was adorable in Bridesmaids when the very charming Officer Nathan Rhodes met Kristin Wiig's character, Annie Walker, while pulling her over for a broken rear light. But things don't always turn out so nicely in real life, as one police officer in Stickney, Illinois, discovered the hard way. » 1/08/12 3:35pm 1/08/12 3:35pm