Four people are reportedly facing felony charges after allegedly burglarizing the homes of several celebrities including Lindsay Lohan and "The Hills" star Audrina Patridge. Los Angeles prosecutors filed felony residential burglary charges against three women and one man on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. The suspects, ages ranging from 18 to 27, include a female who is reportedly...
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- In court papers filed by The Associated Press, the news organization said Shepard Fairey concocted the story that he was mistaken about which photo he used to create the famous Obama HOPE poster and disputed his contention that he has not personally profited from the iconic red, white and blue image. Days after Fairey acknowledged trying to destroy potentially damaging evidence...
A non-LatAm OT , courtesy of kind reader and always entertaining mailer 'JR'. Let's not beat around the bush, let's just get the BBC to tell it as it is: The Associated Press (AP) news agency has accidentally published internal notes about the arrest of film director Roman Polanski instead of a story. The document details an exchange of messages between reporters about Mr Polanski, who was held in...
Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have been released from a Texas jail following their arrest for allegedly not paying a California hotel bill in excess of $10,000. Quaid and his wife each posted $20,000 bail on Thursday after being locked in jail for several hours, says the Associated Press -- and Presidio County Sheriff Danny Dominguez tells the news agency that he drove the couple to a bank to...
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, in Rosemont for an Indian film festival, is downplaying being questioned at the New Jersey airport when he entered the United States. Press Trust of India news agency reported that Kahn said he was detained for two hours because his name came up on a computer alert list at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. U.S. customs officials say Khan was questioned...
Ms Hussein wants to make this a test case for women's rights in Sudan A Sudanese woman charged with dressing indecently for wearing trousers says she has been stopped from going abroad. Lubna Hussein says she tried to leave Sudan on Tuesday to visit Lebanon where she had been invited to appear on a television programme. She says an airport official said her name had been put on a blacklist last Friday,...
Two journalists working for Associated Press were wounded when they were struck by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the news agency reported Wednesday.
Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling have been issued a "special pardon" from North Korea after they were convicted and imprisoned by the North Korean government for allegedly entering the country illegally last March. North Korean leader Kim Jong IL ordered the women be released from a labor prison following a meeting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton , the Associated Press reports....
Raul Reyes, a leader in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was recently killed in Ecuador by the Colombian military. The incident has created a near war-like situation involving Venezuela, Ecuador and the Colombian Governments. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Ecuador leader denies Farc funds A videotape purportedly shows Mono Jojoy addressing his troops President...
An attorney representing the Jackson family says that Michael Jackson had a will and it is to be filed in court, according to a new report from the Associated Press . The AP reports that attorney L. Londell McMillan says the family is aware of the will. Documents filed earlier in Superior Court say that King of Pop's family believed he died without a valid will, according to the news agency.
Williams questioned over robbery! Williams is on holiday in the Exuma district of the Bahamas Police in the Bahamas have questioned Robbie Williams over the robbery of two photographers who had taken shots of him on a private beach. The paparazzi said they got into an argument with the pop star's entourage while photographing him on Sunday. Hours later, they claimed, four armed men broke into their...
Music producer Phil Spector on Friday was sentenced to 19 years to life for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson , the Associated Press reports. A Los Angeles judge ordered a 15-year term for the second-degree murder of Clarkson, who was shot in the mouth six years ago at Spector's home. The judge also ordered an additional four years for personal use of a gun, says the AP . Spector was also ordered...
Music producer Phil Spector on Friday was sentenced to 19 years to life for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson , the Associated Press reports. A Los Angeles judge ordered a 15-year term for the second-degree murder of Clarkson, who was shot in the mouth six years ago at Spector's home. The judge also ordered an additional four years for personal use of a gun, says the AP . Spector was also ordered...
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ unorthodox musical partnership yielded rich rewards on Grammy night, as the pair won a leading four Grammys, including Album of The Year for Raising Sand and Record of The Year for the haunting “Please Read The Letter.” RELATED: KANYE EGO MOMENT OF THE NIGHT: West showed some sour [...]
Giving new life to the phrase "PR operative," the Pentagon is busy spending money to shape opinion at home and abroad. How busy? An Associated Press investigation found that over the past five years, the money the military spends on winning hearts and minds at home and abroad has grown by 63 percent, to at least $4.7 billion this year, according to Department of Defense budgets and other...
The joint statement – issued in London – came two days after Madonna’s U.S. rep gave the Associated Press details of the supposed deal. Liz Rosenberg said that Madonna, 50, was set to hand over cash and property worth between $76 million and $92 million, calling it “one of the largest [divorce] payouts ever.”
According to a recent report by the Associated Press, a Vero Beach, Florida man is behind bars after trying to pay for his fast food order at a drive thru window with marijuana.
Exclusive photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie 's newborn twins fetched $14 million, a person involved in the negotiations told The Associated Press, giving People magazine and a British tabloid joint rights to publish the most expensive celebrity pictures ever sold. The person asked not to be named because he was not authorized to release the figure. People will feature twin babies Vivienne Marcheline
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