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Oprah Retires from TSO

In this surprising and sad development, Alphaville’s Oprah Winfrey has announced that she has cancelled her farewell show, uninstalled TSO, and cancelled her subscription. She will be missed. Her retirement letter follows.

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Special: Granny Celestie meets Grimmy Moonflower

What sort of newspaper would yield its front page to two notorious griefers? Why the Second Life Herald of course! In this ill-advised article, notorious tso grieferGranny Celestie takes the reporter?s notebook and interviews notorious (and banned) Second Life grieferGrimmy Moonflower. The results are electric! Well, actually, they are what they are?

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OK, The Simulated Soviet Union in Alphaville

For reasons that mystify even this veteran reporter, a group of disaffected alumni of the Alphaville Government have formed a new organization in Alphaville to challenge Mr-President, and have called themselves The Simulated Soviet Union (SSU). And wouldn?t you know it: the ?brains? behind this operation are none other than former AVG Press officer Ian, [...]

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Editorial: It?s Time for Mr-President to Resign

With recent revelations that AVG officer Chad Thomas voted up to 200 times in the AVG Presidential elections, David Pierce has filed a class action lawsuit vs. Mr. Thomas. We believe that this is a classical case of an underling taking a hit for the party that is ultimately responsible. In part one of this [...]

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David Pierce Files virtual Class Action Suit Against AVGs Chad Thomas

Several days ago in a post in the comments section of this blog, Chad Thomas of the Alphaville Government admitted to using proxy servers to vote over 200 times for Mr-President in the now infamous Alphaville Elections between Mr-President and Ashley Richardson. Now, David Pierce has filed what what may be the worlds first virtual [...]

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Warning! First Sims Bank Scam returns to TSO

Thanks to Ian at the Alphaville Gazette for being right on top of this. The notorious scam operation, The First Sims Bank has returned to business on TSO. As reported earlier in The Herald, this is definitely an outfit to stay away from. Be sure to warn your friends about it.

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Jason Sim on Oprah: AVG Elections were rigged!

In the latest round of charges and countercharges on the scandal that will not die but which manages to get murkier by the day, Jason Sim has taken his charges of election-rigging to the Oprah Show in Alphaville. Following is a transcript from the show, which we have received courtesy of Ian at the Alphaville [...]

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Mr. President Bradley Officially Announces Departure from TSO

Noted scammer and foe of in-game governmental agencies, Mr. President Bradley, has issued a press release announcing his departure from TSO. In it, he admits (takes credit?) for hacking the accounts of Seth Galloway, Fans, Eve, and the Lead Architect clone “Lead Archetict” among others. He also claims that he has made a donation of [...]

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Editorial: Ashley?s Stroke of Genius

While there is much gnashing of teeth about this over on The Alphaville Gazette, the Second Life Herald can only but praise Ashley Richardson for enlisting Eve and Mr. President Bradley (along with anisette) as judges in the finals of her recent beauty contest. Although both Eve (formerly many of the Merrill sisters, Voleur, and [...]

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Lead Architect begins liquidating holdings on TSO, plans operations in other MMORPGs

In this interview we talk to Lead Architect, a big player on TSO as seller of simoleans and rares, and (as his name suggests) home design. But the buzz on TSO is that he is liquidating his holdings of simoleans. What are Lead?s plans? It looks like he is going to stake out territory as [...]

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