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THIRD UPDATE, 5:09 PM: The FBI is surrounding the Bowdoin, ME home of the mass shooting suspect of Robert Card, a scene captured by CNN and other news networks. CNN captured law enforcement vehicles around the home, with spotlights shifting to various parts of the home. The network reported…

Los Angeles Rams receiver Demarcus Robinson was robbed at gunpoint Friday at a Los Angeles hotel. Law enforcement sources told TMZ that Robinson was robbed by two gunmen in the early morning hours of Friday. Robinson gave the robbers more than $100,000 worth of jewelry, including an expensive…

UPDATE: After missing for three months, Camela Leierth-Segura has been found alive and safe. Cecilia Foss, a friend of the Swedish model and singer who co-wrote Katy Perry’s “Walking On Air,” confirmed she was found in California. “I wanted to let you all know that my friend Camela who has been…

UPDATE: Lauren Pazienza, the event planner who fatally shoved the 87-year-old Broadway vocal coach Barbara Gustern to the ground in a random 2022 attack, was officially sentenced to eight and a half years in prison Friday. Pazienza had pleaded guilty to manslaughter in August in a plea deal for…

UPDATE, SEPT. 29: A 27-year-old man has been arrested for a widely publicized fight with a 63- year-old man over movie theater seats in Pompano Beach, the Broward Sheriff's Office announced Friday. Jesse Montez Thorton II, 27, faces one count of aggravated battery with great bodily harm. "BSO…

Duane Davis, a former gang member known as Keffe D, was indicted on one count of murder with a deadly weapon by a Nevada grand jury Friday. The victim: Tupac Shakur. It's a case that has made national headlines since 1996 when it took place and has been the subject of a multitude of…

UPDATED, 12:14 PM: A Clark County grand jury handed down a murder indictment today against the man arrested earlier in connection with the killing of Tupac Shakur. Duane "Keefe D" Davis is accused of gunning down the storied rapper on the Las Vegas Strip in 1996. District Judge Jerry Wiese ordered Davis…

The rapper MHD has been sentenced to 12 years in jail, following his conviction for the murder of a young man. The BBC reports that the 29-year-old, whose real name is Mohamed Sylla, was found guilty of involvement in the gang-related killing of Loic K in Paris in 2018. The French court heard…

Everyone’s gone to the festivals. But here on the home front, one thing still leads to another. Last Saturday, I picked up a slightly tattered copy of an old crime biography, Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Underworld, at one of those sidewalk libraries. Published in 1974, the year after…

Country star Zach Bryan, with a No. 1 album and single on the charts, was handcuffed by Oklahoma police twice this week and arrested once. “I was an idiot today,” the musician concedes in a social media video today explaining the traffic incidents that escalated when the singer got “too lippy” (his words)…

A con man who was convicted twice in New York for bilking victims out of millions of dollars through financial fraud schemes was behind bars today in Los Angeles on charges of running similar scams locally, allegedly luring victims by claiming to be well-connected with big names in Hollywood and the…

Prominent Los Angeles County politician Mark Ridley-Thomas was sentenced today to three years and six months in prison for voting in support of county contracts that would favor USC while accepting benefits for his son from the university. “This was a shakedown,” prosecutors wrote in sentencing…