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A former HGTV pilot star has been sentenced to serve three years in prison for sexual assault by a Connecticut judge. Christopher Dionne, who once filmed an HGTV pilot that never aired, was convicted in October of molesting a 10-year-old girl in his Connecticut home during a sleep-over hosted by his daughter. Dionne…

While the real action is set to unfold in January when Harvey Weinstein finally faces criminal trial, a hearing Friday morning brought spirited jousting between his defense team and prosecutors over two separate requests by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. One of the asks, which took up most of the 45-minute…

An Oklahoma State University study has concluded that an episode of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy medical drama contributed to heightened public awareness of sexual assault. The study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine earlier this month, claimed that the March episode, Silent All These Years, helped raise the…

Two K-pop stars were sentenced to prison today for raping drunken women at parties, with one sharing videos of his assaults online. The Seoul Central District Court sentenced singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young, who recorded and shared the videos, to six years in prison. Choi Jong-hoon, a former boy band member, was…

UPDATED, 12:30 PM PT with confirmed deaths, more info: Two people have been killed and three others injured in a terror attack at London Bridge on Friday, during which the suspect was shot dead by police. The Metropolitan Police confirmed the deaths during a press briefing Friday evening following the incident, which…

A former American Idol contestant has received a four-year prison sentence for conspiring to distribute the opiate fentanyl. Antonella Barba, age 32, a contestant on Season 6 of American Idol who finished in the top 16, received a sentence of 45 months in federal prison on Thursday in US District Court in Norfolk…

UPDATE, 1:23 PM: There’s the Chicago way and there’s the Chicago way and the Windy City isn’t the least blown over by the newly offense legal strategy by Jussie Smollett. “The City stands by its original complaint and will continue to pursue this litigation,” Chicago Department of Law spokesperson Bill McCaffrey told…

Two college professors, one with the nickname Heisenberg, have been arrested and charged with making methamphetamine. Unbelievable coincidence? In the words of Walter White, “You’re goddamn right.” In a parallel to the television classic Breaking Bad,  Bradley Allen Rowland, 40, and Terry Bateman, 45, were arrested…

UPDATED with shooter dying: Two teenage students have died and a third is in critical condition after a shooting Thursday at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, a city roughly 30 miles north of Hollywood. Three other students also were wounded in the attack including the gunman. The gunman, a 16-year-old student at…

Dr. Bruce Hensel, a multiple local Emmy winner and former longtime medical correspondent for KNBC-TV newscasts in Los Angeles, is facing a felony child sexual-exploitation charge for asking a 9-year-old girl to send him sexually suggestive pictures, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. The former…

ITV has canceled Rob Lowe’s fish out of water British cop drama Wild Bill after just one season. The West Wing star, who currently features in Netflix film Holiday In The Wild, played high-flying U.S. cop Bill Hixon, who was appointed Chief Constable of the East Lincolnshire Police Force in the UK. But the series…

James Nesbitt has been cast as the lead in new BBC One detective drama Bloodlands, which represents the first commission for Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio’s production company. Dubbed an “Irish noir,” Nesbitt will play Northern Irish police detective Tom Brannick who connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case…