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Britney Spears is looking to formally charge her father with “conservatorship abuse.” The 39-year-old singer announced her intentions during a Wednesday court hearing that addressed the shakeup in her legal team. Spears’ former court-appointed attorney, Samuel D. Ingham III, resigned from his role earlier this month, after representing the pop star since 2008. Los Angeles County Superior […]
A former Houston police officer is facing decades behind bars after he allegedly beat a handcuffed suspect. According to NBC News, Lucas Vieira was indicted last week on aggravated assault charges stemming from the 2019 arrest of Aundre Howard. The incident took place on July 7, when Houston PD officers pulled Howard over for expired registration. During […]
A UK woman was found guilty of murder last month after pouring a mixture of boiling water and sugar on her husband while he was asleep in their home. It was unclear at the time what motivated her to kill him, but WFLA reports 59-year-old Corinna Smith’s actions were provoked by her daughter’s accusation that her mother’s partner, Michael Baines, sexually abused her and […]
A man in Florida pleaded guilty last week after admitting to a murder-for-hire plot on his ex-girlfriend, and framing the crime afterwards on the Black Lives Matter movement, Newsweek reports. Daniel Slater, 51, of Palm Beach County, confessed in a July 8 hearing in federal district court as part of a plea deal that he was orchestrating a plan […]
A drive-by shooting outside California’s Knott’s Berry Farm theme park Friday night left at least one person wounded and three others hospitalized. KTLA reports gunfire erupted around 9 p.m. outside the front gate of Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Officials transported one gunshot victim to a hospital. Three other people were also treated by […]
A group of ex-California officers are collectively facing nearly 100 felonies in connection to a multi-year fraud scheme. According to CBS Los Angles, the former California Highway Patrol officers are accused of exaggerating their overtime between Jan. 1, 2016 and March 31, 2018. During that time, the officers reportedly bilked the state out of $23,418.27. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced […]
Diplo has been slapped with another sexual assault allegation. According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, the 42-year-old DJ—legal name Thomas Wesley Pentz—is accused of coercing a woman into performing oral sex in 2019. The lawsuit states the alleged victim was invited to an afterparty for one of Diplo’s Las Vegas concerts. The woman said she and […]
The Los Angeles District Attorney will not pursue the death penalty against Corey Walker—one of four people accused of murdering Pop Smoke. According to the New York Daily News, the prosecution announced their decision in court Tuesday, less than 17 months after the Brooklyn rapper was fatally shot during a home invasion robbery. Walker, now 20, was the only […]
According to police reports, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed an armed burglar who threatened his mother and forced his way into their home. As reported by the Associated Press, on June 30th, 32-year-old Brad LeBlanc was armed with a pistol when he confronted a woman in front of her home in Louisiana. According to East […]
Donald Trump reportedly took a “sudden interest” in Ghislaine Maxwell when discussing who he should pardon during his final weeks in office. According to Michael Wolff’s new book, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency, the former POTUS had expressed concern that Maxwell would drag him into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse scandal. Maxwell, a 59-year-old heiress and socialite, was […]
