A Los Angeles jury convicted Tory Lanez on all three counts Friday, and then pandemonium erupted in the courtroom RAPPER TORY LANEZ was found guilty Friday of shooting music superstar Megan Thee Stallion in both feet during an alcohol-fueled curbside confrontation in the predawn hours of July 12, 2020. After seven hours of deliberations, a Los Angeles jury convicted the “Luv” singer on all three counts, finding that he assaulted Megan with a semi-automatic firearm, causing great bodily injury, discharged the...
Mr. Boss spent nine years with “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” as D.J., guest host and, eventually, an executive producer. Stephen Boss, a charismatic hip-hop dancer and television personality known as tWitch who rose to fame on the reality show “So You Think You Can Dance” before becoming a regular on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” died on Tuesday in a motel room in Los Angeles. He was 40. The death was ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles County medical examiner’s...
Getty Grand Daddy I.U., a prominent member of early rap label Cold Chillin’ Records, has died at the age of 54 … TMZ Hip Hop has learned. Legendary hip hop producer Pete Rock, a longtime advocate for GDIU’s skills as a lyricist, revealed to his followers the Queens-born rapper died peacefully in his sleep. In the late 80s, GDIU was signed on Cold Chillin’ along with Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, Roxanne Shanté and Biz Markie, the latter rap legend having a huge part in...
Brittney Griner arrived in the U.S. early Friday, landing at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas. The WNBA star, who was held for months in Russian prisons on drug charges, was released Thursday in a one-for-one prisoner swap for notorious international arms dealer Viktor Bout, bringing an end to an ordeal that sparked intense high-level negotiations between the Washington and the Moscow to secure her freedom. Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, tweeted, “So happy to have Brittney back on...
A message found by the police on the killer’s phone asked God to forgive him for targeting co-workers, whose deaths were the latest in a string of mass shooting fatalities. The Walmart supervisor who shot and killed six of his co-workers at a store in Chesapeake, Va., this week purchased a pistol only hours before the massacre and left a note on his phone, in which he described planning to target some colleagues and spare others, according to new details...
MINEOLA, N.Y. — There’s a new effort to solve murders on Long Island. Law enforcement joined victims’ families Thursday to urge the public to help close the books on four unsolved homicides, CBS2’s Carolyn Gusoff reported. Families waiting years for justice joined Nassau County police and prosecutors with a plea. “We cannot solve crimes … without witnesses being willing to step forward and speak up,” said Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly. Thiasia...
After appearing to clear a number of other legal hurdles, President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan has been blocked. Last week, a federal district court in Texas issued a ruling calling the plan “unconstitutional,” which the Department of Justice has already appealed on Biden’s behalf. And on Monday, addressing a separate lawsuit, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals continued an existing pause on the relief while it considers the plaintiff’s arguments. The bottom line for borrowers: You probably...
More questions than answers continue to plague the Moscow, Idaho, community after the fatal stabbing of four University of Idaho students – and police said they cannot assure the community is safe. Moscow Police Chief James Fry gave an update Wednesday, saying two additional roommates were in the home at the time of the killings who were neither injured nor held hostage. Fry also said two of the victims – Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle – were at a party on campus,...
Police have in custody a University of Virginia student and ex-UVA football player suspected of fatally shooting three current players and wounding two other people late Sunday at the school’s main campus in Charlottesville as a bus returned from a class field trip, school officials said. The suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., faces three charges of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony, UVA Police Chief Timothy Longo Sr. told reporters Monday morning as...
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell won’t get his old job as Senate majority leader back in January after voters decided to let Democrats keep control of Congress’ upper chamber. It was unclear what the outcome of Tuesday’s election would mean for control of the Senate for several days as the vote tallies of close races across the country were counted. However, Democrats clinched the majority this weekend when Democratic U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, America’s first-ever Latina senator, won her highly...