ROBERT GAUTHIER/AFP/Getty Images Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Yvette M. Palazuelos gathers jury verdict documents moments before they’re publicly disclosed Oct. 2 during the trial of Katherine Jackson’s lawsuit against AEG Live over the death of Michael Jackson. On Monday the judge denied a motion by the singer’s mom for a new trial based on allegedly ‘defective’ jury instructions and ...
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During ‘60 Minutes,’ Bosch details drawing A-Rod’s blood in stall, getting death threats
Alex Rodriguez was so devoted to Anthony Bosch’s doping protocol and schedule that he once agreed to have his own blood drawn by the Biogenesis founder while the two men were in a Miami club bathroom stall, in order for Bosch to later analyze the sample and ensure A-Rod would not fail an MLB drug test. Bosch, who was interviewed ...
Read More »Man hacked to death after being stalked on Facebook: prosecutors
Bhavik Parmar via Facebook Danny Gough, 24, was allegedly butchered with an ax and a machete by three masked men in front of his pregnant fiancée, Kareena Modashia, (both pictured here) as part of an ongoing vicious feud. A British father-to-be was hacked to death in front of his pregnant fiancee after his alleged attackers tracked the man’s whereabouts using ...
Read More »Baghdad Christians targeted as Christmas bombings death toll hits 37
Karim Kadim/AP Iraqi officials say a car bomb went off near a Baghdad church during Christmas Mass, killing at least 15 people in the city’s southern Dora neighborhood, which has a small Christian population. BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials say a car bomb went off near a Baghdad church during Christmas Mass, killing at least 15 people. A police officer says ...
Read More »Authorities face fury over service-dog Tascha death decree
Facebook Tascha stays by Dylan Gerzmehle’s side night and day. A German boy in a permanent vegetative state may lose his best friend — an American Staffordshire Terrier — after authorities claimed it was a dangerous pet. The decision to remove “chief carer” Tascha from Dylan Gerzmehle’s side has been opposed by more than 100,000 people on a Facebook campaign. ...
Read More »Death toll rises to nine in Glasgow copter crash
RUSSELL CHEYNE/Reuters Wreckage of a police helicopter on the roof of a pub in central Glasgow on Monday. LONDON – Scottish authorities used a crane to remove the wreckage of a police helicopter from the roof of a Glasgow pub on Monday, and raised the death toll from its crash to nine. The helicopter’s crew — two police officers and ...
Read More »The birth and death of stars, captured in a dramatic intergalactic photo
You are looking at a stunning photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest dwarf galaxies to the Milky Way. Captured by the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (points for creativity), the photo shows an active region of stellar birth on the right, and the remnants of explosive stellar death — supernova — on the left. The VLT is the ...
Read More »Xbox One launch day hardware issues abound, but fortunately no sign of the red ring of death yet
After the absurd and complicated roller coaster ride of the Xbox 180 pre-launch debacle, the Xbox One is finally finding its way into the living rooms of consumers. While many users are happily channel surfing and playing with their Xbox Ones, some users are hitting major issues. From faulty Blu-ray drives to unexplained buzzing to iPhone-like scuffs, the Xbox One ...
Read More »Brooklyn freediver mourned after tragic death in Bahamas
Facebook Nicholas Mevoli learned to dive without fins and oxygen tanks when he visited the Florida Keys as a child. A young Brooklyn freediver who died over the weekend while competing for a world record did so much damage to his lungs during his 236-foot plunge that he couldn’t survive, his family told The Daily News Monday. Nicholas Mevoli, 32, ...
Read More »Looting Typhoon Haiyan survivors crushed to death in rice warehouse
NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images At least eight people (not shown) were killed when a wall collapsed on typhoon survivors that were looting a local warehouse in Tacloban. TACLOBAN, Philippines — An official says eight people were crushed to death when thousands of typhoon survivors stormed a government rice warehouse in the typhoon-ravaged central Philippines. National Food Authority spokesman Rex Estoperez said ...
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