Elizabeth Smart was not afraid to face Brian Mitchell in her first testimony detailing her 2002 abduction. But he was thrown out of court when he refused to stop singing. Testifying for the first time, Smart said Mitchell kept her a tether and raped her several times a day.

Kandi Burruss, the newest cast member of the reality show “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” was mourning the death Saturday of her fiancé, who died after a fistfight the night before.

Authorities arrested a man accused of secretly taping ESPN sports reporter Erin Andrews in the nude and posting the videos on the Internet, the FBI said Friday.

A retired prosecutor whose comments in a 2008 HBO documentary threatened to derail a 31-year-old sex case against film director Roman Polanski now says he lied. David Wells admitted he “buttered up” his role in the case to impress the documentary crew, but never expected it to be shown in the U.S.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry shook up the ranks of a state commission that is probing whether a man executed in 2004 belonged on death row. The move came two days before the scheduled testimony of an arson expert critical of evidence prosecutors used to convict Cameron Todd Willingham of murder in 1992.

The videotaped beating death of an honors student in Chicago, Illinois, is “chilling” and one of the most shocking things “you can ever see,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.