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This will do little to heal the wounds of loss, but Lady Justice may have brought some sense of relief today. The woman who fatally shot Michael Latt in November 2023 will be behind bars for decades and decades, a judge made clear Wednesday. Charged with murder by authorities late last year, Jameelah…

Jonathan Majors was surrounded by supporters on Friday as he accepted his first award since he was convicted of assault and harassment in December. The Creed III actor thanked God and Hollywood Unlocked founder Jason Lee as he accepted the Perseverance Award at the 4th Impact Awards in Los Angeles…

A New Mexico judge has decided today that Alec Baldwin will still be going to trial this summer for the October 2021 fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. “It is ordered that defendant Alec Baldwin’s Motion to dismiss the indictment is hereby denied,” said Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer…

Over a year after Phil Drechsler was arrested on child pornography charges, the former KNBC-TV news producer has made a plea deal with prosecutors that could see him receiving a greatly reduced sentence. Picked up on the run in Cincinnati in April 2023, Drechsler today entered a guilty plea in…

UPDATED, 2:15 PM: William Hutchinson, who appeared on the Lifetime series Marrying Millions as the suitor of a woman 40 years younger than him, pleaded guilty today to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at his Laguna Beach vacation home and was sentenced to 90 days of home confinement in Texas. The…

(Updated with statement from Weinstein spokesperson & Silence Breakers) New York's highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction on felony sex crime charges, ordering a new trial. However, that doesn’t mean the Pulp Fiction producer will be stepping out of prison any time soon…

UPDATE, 2:37 PM: Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s fate out of the fatal October 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins could be decided before the end of the week. The armorer’s involuntary manslaughter trial could go to the jury for deliberations as soon as Wednesday, it was revealed at the…

UPDATED, 6:25 PM: More than two decades after Run-D.M.C.’s Jam Master Jay was killed in a New York recording studio, two men have been convicted of murder in the case. Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington, both of New York, stood accused of killing the musician in a dispute over drug sales. Both…

Australian police searching for the bodies of missing TV presenter Jesse Baird and his partner, Luke Davies, have found two bodies. “We are very confident we have located Luke and Jesse,” said Karen Webb, New South Wales Police Commissioner. The remains of bodies were found in a rural town about…

UPDATED, 5 PM: A man who shot two people to death in a Southern California movie theater in 2021 has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Joseph Jimenez was convicted in December for the killing of TikTok star Anthony Barajas, 19, and college student Rylee Goodrich, 18, at a Regal…

Alec Baldwin will face a New Mexico jury this summer on involuntary manslaughter stemming from the 2021 fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. As promised last week, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer today set a date for the start of the multiple Emmy winner's trial in the Land of…

A 28-year-old serving police officer has been charged with two counts of murder in connection with an investigation into the disappearance of Australian TV personality Jesse Baird and his partner, Luke Davies. Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon handed himself into Sydney police Friday, two days after…