MIAMI – Police said a handyman delivering drugs shot and critically wounded a prominent Latin music songwriter and producer inside a waterfront mansion. Fabio Alonso Salgado was shot around 11:30 p.m. Friday in the chest and on the back of the head. A police report described the injuries as “near fatal” but also said Salgado [...]
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Lindsay Lohan was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Saturday after her convertible struck a curb, and investigators found what they believe is cocaine at the scene, police said. Lohan, 20, and two other people were in her 2005 Mercedes SL-65 when it crashed on Sunset Boulevard around 5:30 [...]
(AP) A man who fatally shot a teenage neighbor because he walked on the man’s carefully tended lawn has been sentenced to life in prison. Charles Martin, 67, must serve 18 years before he can be considered for parole, Clermont County Common Pleas Judge William Walker ordered, adding that he would urge that Martin never [...]
(CBS/AP) Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr appeared in public for the first time in months on Friday, delivering a fiery anti-American sermon to thousands of followers and demanding U.S. troops leave Iraq. It was not immediately clear why he chose to return now to his base in the Shiite holy city of Najaf from Iran. [...]
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – It has been a wild and in some cases wacky season for network TV, culminating in a hunt for millions of missing viewers that is so complicated that it’s worthy of its own episode of “CSI.” On the surface, it is status quo — CBS extended its winning streak in [...]
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Fox bagged its third straight crown in the key adults 18-49 demographic for the 2006-07 TV season, while CBS won for a fifth straight year in viewership. The season finished up in grand style with a primetime Wednesday battle that featured the two-hour finales of “American Idol” and “Lost,” overlapping [...]
LONDON – Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling will mark the release of the final book in the hugely popular series by giving a midnight reading and signing in London. About 1,700 lucky fans in Britain and Ireland will win a chance to have Rowling sign a copy of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” The [...]
LOS ANGELES – Prosecutors said Thursday they will ask a judge to revoke Tom Sizemore’s probation and impose a sentence of 16 months in prison. The 45-year-old actor has had a string of legal problems, the most recent coming this month, when he was arrested outside a hotel where police found two bags of suspected [...]
LOS ANGELES – Twelve years ago, forensic scientist Henry Lee mesmerized jurors with his analysis of scientific evidence in O.J. Simpson’s murder trial. Holding up a photo of what he said was a shoe print he declared ominously: “Something’s wrong.” Despite challenges from others, it was a statement simple and accessible enough to help turn [...]
CANNES, France (Reuters) – French director Catherine Breillat typified a trend at the Cannes film festival by casting unknowns who had never acted before in “Une vieille maitresse.” “A painter chooses their colors, they don’t buy them ready-made at the market and that’s how I choose the actors who play in the film,” she told [...]
