Latin music songwriter Estefano shot

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 was […]

Lindsay Lohan booked on suspicion of DUI

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 a.m., […]

Life For Killing Boy Who Tread On Lawn

(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 […]

Al-Sadr Reappears In Iraq At Rally

(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. […]

The case of the disappearing TV viewers

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 total […]

Ratings rerun: Fox, CBS win season honors

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 between […]

Rowling to give reading of new Potter

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 event will take […]

DA: Tom Sizemore should go to prison

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 methamphetamine and […]

Criminalist Lee’s credibility challenged

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 the tide […]

Using unknowns to freshen up Cannes

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 reporters after […]