LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson’s doctor, who refused to testify at his trial, said in an interview broadcast Thursday that the singer lied to him about his medical history and never revealed he had an addiction problem. “I would hate to put blame on Michael as an individual,” Dr. Conrad Murray told the “Today” [...]

Tamara Tunie, the American actress who plays medical examiner Melinda Warner on crime series ‘Law and Order: Special Victims Unit’, has fallen victim to a real life $1 million theft after her accountant pleaded guilty to stealing from her to fund his own entertainment ventures. According to the Associated Press, Mr Joseph Cilibrasi faces between [...]

A 32-year-old woman has been charged with one misdemeanor count of child abuse for locking her daughter in a closet for 6 hours because she earned bad grades, the Daily Pilot reports. Costa Mesa Police Sgt. Phil Myers told the paper that the mother also hit the 13-year-old three times with a stick. A “concerned [...]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Joe Paterno was fired by the Penn State board of trustees Wednesday night despite saying he would retire as coach after the football season ended, brought down by the growing furor over the handling of child sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach. Penn State President Graham Spanier was also [...]

President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees. In the Federal Register of November 8, 2011, Acting Administrator of Agricultural Marketing David R. Shipman announced that the [...]

Kesa, Europe (Chicago Options: ^REURUSD – news) ‘s third-biggest electrical goods retailer, has agreed to sell its loss-making electrical chain Comet for just £2. The buyer is a group of companies under the name Hailey Holdings Ltd, advised by retail turnaround firm, OpCapita LLP. Comet, which has 248 stores and 10,000 employees in the UK, [...]

An associate of Heavy D’s just told us the rapper had pneumonia.Law enforcement tell TMZ … Heavy D had just returned from shopping and walked up some stairs when he began having trouble breathing. Adam Mills, a designer who was in the building and knew Heavy D, found him leaning against a railing and clearly [...]

A pilot has died following an incident involving a Red Arrows jet at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said. The pilot, who has not been named, was taken to Lincoln County Hospital in a “very serious” condition but later died. MoD said that the member of the RAF Aerobatic Team [...]

Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion whose furious and intensely personal fights with a taunting Muhammad Ali endure as an epic rivalry in boxing history, died Monday night. He was 67. His business representative, Leslie Wolff, told The Associated Press on Saturday that Frazier had liver cancer and that he had entered hospice care. Known [...]

Jurors in the Michael Jackson trial have found Conrad Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter.Murray is immediately handcuffed by law enforcement officers by Danny Blackburn, Press… 9:34 PM There ya go hand cuffed!!!! #MurrayGuilty by jacksonsource via twitter 9:34 PM Conrad Murray is now being handcuffed. #MurrayTrial #Justice4MJ by mjjnews via twitter 9:34 PM Judge remands [...]