Xavier Pinckney Sentenced for Obstructing Dime Doe Murder Case

Sean “Puffy” Combs won’t be prosecuted for beating the crap out of Casandra Ventura despite hotel surveillance footage showing the 2016 assault, says the Los Angeles District Attorney.

Jeremy Renner is back at work on his series Mayor of Kingstown after his well-documented snowmobile accident and recovery.

Gogglebox's Pete Sandiford couldn't help but vent about his wife Paige, as he hilariously claimed she's 'doing his head in' during the latest episode of the hit show on Friday, 17 May. In a candid chat with his sister Sophie, 24, on the sofa, Pete, 26, shared his recent couple woes, saying: "Paige has been doing my head in.

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Michael Bayer has launched True Case Films, a new production company based in Los Angeles, focused solely on producing and financing stories based on true crime. The newly formed company has secured IP and is actively seeking additional packaged true crime projects to finance, produce and executive produce. Bayer will serve as the new company’s president.

Magnus von Horn’s sophomore feature Sweat earned its director a spot in Cannes’ Official Selection in 2020, after his debut, The Here After, played in Directors’ Fortnight in 2015. But the festival of 2020 was canceled in the wake of the Covid pandemic, so von Horn’s place in this year’s Competition, with his third feature The Girl With the Needle, must surely mark the Swedish director’s coming-of-age. The film, starring Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm, riffs on one of Denmark’s most notorious murder cases to weave a poetic and dark fairytale about the people living on the margins in the aftermath of the First World War. 

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor The WNBA begins its 28th season tonight with more buzz and interest in the game from casual hoops fans than the league has enjoyed since its launch year in 1997. WNBA insiders and boosters know this is an opportunity to make the most of, especially for the tip-off tonight with a double-header of games that getting an unusually wide platformby airing on ESPN 2 and Disney+.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has left Iran and traveled to Europe clandestinely after being sentenced to eight years in prison by the country’s authorities, who pressured him to pull his latest work “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” from the Cannes Film Festival and harassed the film’s producers and actors. “We are very happy and much relieved that Mohammad has safely arrived in Europe after a dangerous journey,” said Jean-Christophe Simon, CEO of Films Boutique and Parallel45, who are distributing the film.

Emergency services were called after the driver of a Land Rover mounted their car onto Ford vehicle in a car park in Wilmslow.

Prince Harry's decision to step down from his role as a senior working royal rocked the Royal Family – but it seems it was a long time in the making. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex dropped the bombshell news in January 2020 before jetting off to California two months later to start their new life.This move prompted the Royal Family to split in ways no one could have predicted.

Joan Crawford, the legendary Oscar-winning actress who appeared in over 80 films during a remarkable 45-year Hollywood career, died on this day in history, May 10, 1977. Born Lucille Fay LeSueur on March 23, 1904, in San Antonio, Texas, Crawford reportedly grew up with little means, and was raised by her mother and stepfather in Oklahoma before relocating to Kansas City, Missouri. Amid the jazz-age flapper movement, she was in search of a dance career until she was discovered while performing in a New York chorus line in 1925 by MGM, according to Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

Harry J. Pappas, whose Pappas Telecasting Companies was at one time the largest privately-held commercial television broadcast group in terms of household coverage in the United States, died on April 24 in Reno, according to The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences San Francisco/NorCal chapter. He was 78.

Selena Kuznikov Variety received 74 nominations for the SoCal Journalism Awards sponsored by the Los Angeles Press Club during the 2023 calendar year, with nods across magazine and entertainment journalism, video, audio, online content, and social media. Among the nominations announced Thursday were Brent Lang and Chris Willman for entertainment journalist of the year. Additionally, Variety.com was nominated for best traditional news organization website in the online category.

A true crime documentary about the tragic disappearance of Gabby Petito has been released today (Thursday, May 9) on ITVX.The three-part series follows the investigation into the mystery case of the 22-year-old video blogger who went missing while on a road trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie in 2021. The documentary, The Disappearance of Gaby Petito, includes interviews with Gabby's parents who reveal their heartbreak and internet sleuths who tried to uncover the truth behind her disappearance.

We knew this case wasn’t going to just disappear. We didn’t expect these twists and turns! For some background…

The Anaheim City Council gave final approval today to DisneylandForward, the $1.9 billion, Disney’s multi-decade expansion plan for Walt’s original park. Today’s 7-0 procedural vote came after a unanimous vote approving the project in April. The zoning and other changes laid out by the plan to take effect in 30 days.

John Patton Ford‘s feature debut “Emily The Criminal” won over critics in 2022 thanks to a riveting lead performance by Aubrey Plaza. But Deadline reports that Plaza won’t star in Ford’s upcoming series adaptation of the film, although she’ll still be involved as an executive producer.   READ MORE: Margaret Qualley, Glen Powell & Ed Harris Join A24’s ‘Huntington’ From Director John Patton Ford Legendary Television will develop the series with Ford directing its entirety.

A former police officer has been jailed for life for 13 rapes and kidnap. Cliff Mitchell, 24, was serving with the Metropolitan Police when a number of the offences were committed.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Francis Ford Coppola revealed in a preview of “Megalopolis” in Vanity Fair that he rewrote the script around 300 times before self-financing the passion project for $120 million by selling part of his winery estate in Northern California. The epic is set to world premiere in competition at the Cannes FIlm Festival in May. A first look photo from “Megalopolis” has debuted featuring Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel in their leading roles.

Suzanne Morphew‘s cause of death has finally been confirmed.

Charles “Todd” Hill, who starred on the HGTV show Flip It to Win It, has been sentenced to prison in California for committing real estate and financial fraud against 11 victims, prosecutors said.