Michelangelo Coltelli learned that the website was offline while working at his jewelry shop in Bologna.

The Polizia Postale, which investigates communications crime in Italy, walked into the store about a month ago. They waited in line while Coltelli, whose family has operated the self-named shop since 1834, helped another customer.

Today in a San Diego courtroom, the battle for Snopes will be set in motion — and it should be an interesting showdown.

The Justice Department is rolling out a plan to put a stopper in leaks springing out across the federal government.

After repeated urging from President Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Friday a campaign to crack down on leakers in the intelligence community, issuing a stark warning to sources who would leak to reporters.

Editor's note: This story was originally published at the San Diego Union-Tribune.

In the battle over ownership of fact-checking website Snopes.com, creator David Mikkelson was handed an early victory Thursday that should keep him in power as CEO of the company, and return months of lost advertising revenue to the cash-strapped site.

Two days after Capitol Hill police told journalists to delete their photos during a protest over the ongoing fight to replace Obamacare, several media advocacy organizations have taken a stand.

The National Press Photographers Association, along with eight other organizations, sent a letter Thursday to the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police and the Senate sergeant at arms requesting they take alleged interference with journalists' work seriously and work to review their policies.

In an act of defiance against Donald Trump's Twitter obsession, the Knight First Amendment Institute sued the president last week on behalf of seven people he's blocked. That makes for a good headline, but what's the likelihood of the Knight Institute actually winning the case?

The Knight First Amendment Institute has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his communication teams, alleging that they're violating the Constitution by blocking people on Twitter.

The owner of Snopes is locked in a legal battle with a small digital services company for control of the popular debunking site.

Proper Media — a company that owns, operates and represents web properties  — has issued a legal complaint and demand for a jury trial with Snopes owner Bardav, Inc. for what it calls "a lengthy scheme of concealment and subterfuge to gain control of the company and to drain its profits," according to documents filed in the Superior Court of California in San Diego County.

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of journalists and ordinary bystanders video recording police. The three-judges appellate panel ruled in the cases of a Temple University student, Richard Fields and Amanda Geraci, who was a member of a police watchdog group in Philadelphia called Up Against the Law.

Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin filed suit against The New York Times on Tuesday evening, alleging the newspaper defamed her by publishing an editorial that connected rhetoric from a Palin political action committee to the shooting of former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.