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Russell Brand and his wife Laura openly discussed his fear of prison on their podcast just days before his rape trial began. Brand, 51, and Laura Gallacher, 39, recorded the Oct. 11 episode of “Sunday Service with the Brands” three…
Tomas Pendas, 63, has been identified as the pilot killed when his helicopter crashed off the Florida coast near Key Biscayne during a speedboat photoshoot. Pendas was president of Global Aerials, the company listed as the registered owner of the…
Campaigners are warning that this year’s Bonfire Night could be the last to feature ear-splitting fireworks as UK ministers weigh plans to slash noise levels by up to half. The government is considering proposals that would lower the maximum noise…
A weekend Learjet crash that killed nine people in Florida is sharpening scrutiny of private aviation’s safety gap, with federal data showing chartered flights are roughly 80 times deadlier per flight hour than scheduled commercial carriers. The National Transportation Safety…
Daniel Darris-O’Connor, 19, will become one of the youngest lawmakers in Massachusetts history after unseating eight-term Republican Marc Lombardo in Tuesday’s midterm elections. The Billerica Democrat led Lombardo by just 438 votes out of more than 17,000 ballots cast with…
Rain Hannah Andreani, longtime girlfriend of Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil, was arrested Sunday on domestic assault charges in Tennessee. The makeup artist, 49, was booked by the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office in Franklin and held on a $5,000 bond…
Roland Chatmon, 37, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal kidnapping conspiracy and gun charges for orchestrating a brutal attack on his own uncle. Chatmon, of Michigan, admitted in Detroit federal court that he plotted to abduct Curtis Dixon, his uncle, and…
A Mexican judge accused of taking a $2 million bribe to free a top lieutenant of alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding has been arrested in Colombia. Luis Benítez Alcántara, 49, of Mexico City, was taken into custody Sunday on a…
Burke Ramsey has broken a decade of public silence to demand new DNA testing in his sister’s unsolved murder. The 39-year-old, who was nine when JonBenét Ramsey was killed in 1996, said that unidentified male genetic material recovered from beneath…
Stacy Bennett has revealed her husband’s final, terrified words before he drowned in floodwaters that engulfed his truck. Joshua Bennett, 34, of Palm Bay, Florida, was on a coffee run Monday when historic rainfall transformed local streets into raging rivers.…
Jeffrey Weisheit was executed by lethal injection on Thursday with no final words, though he did request one last meal. The 50-year-old Indiana death row inmate, who had been incarcerated since 2013, was pronounced dead roughly 45 minutes after consuming…
Disturbing police bodycam footage has emerged from the aftermath of Perez Hilton’s August suicide attempt at his Miami home. The three-minute video, obtained Thursday, shows first responders placing the blurred-out celebrity blogger on a stretcher outside his residence before transporting…
Russell Brand sat motionless and offered no response when detectives put graphic rape allegations to him during a police interview in July. The Metropolitan Police footage, released after the comedian’s conviction last Thursday, shows Brand, 51, in an interrogation room…
Gavin Newsom has commuted every death sentence in California. The Democratic governor, 57, issued the blanket clemency order affecting all 548 inmates on the state’s death row, transforming their sentences to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The move, announced…
Tennessee officials are pushing back against Christa Pike’s demand to be moved out of the prison infirmary and into a low-security housing unit. Pike, 50, filed an emergency motion on Oct. 30 seeking transfer from the infirmary ward where she…
Anna Lynch has spoken out publicly about the husband who killed their two children and himself, calling him a “wonderful dad” who spiraled into depression after losing his job. Patrick Lynch, 42, his son James, 8, and daughter Caroline, 6,…