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.
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Man accused of taping nude ESPN reporter
‘Housewives’ fiancé dies after fight at club
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.
Elizabeth Smart: Captor kept me on a tether
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.
Texas governor derails execution probe
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.
Ex-prosecutor: I lied about Polanski case
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.
Slain Chicago teen’s family: Stop the violence
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.
Victim: Courts did more harm than Polanski
Samantha Geimer says that that a plea bargain intended to spare her pain has caused her more grief than what Roman Polanski did to her in 1977. Polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with Geimer when she was 13, but fled the U.S.before he was sentenced.
Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS dismissed
A New York appeals court on Tuesday dismissed Dan Rather’s million lawsuit against CBS, in which the television news anchor accused his former employer of breach of contract.
Three more sought in teen’s brutal death
Chicago police asked the public for help Tuesday in finding three more people believed connected to last week’s videotaped fatal beating of 16-year-old Derrion Albert. Four teens already have been arrested and charged with murder. Investigators are trying to enhance the video to identify the assailants.
Roman Polanski arrested in 1970s sex case
Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested on a warrant from a decades-old California sex case. Polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, but left for Europe before sentencing. Earlier attempts to resolve the case failed when a judge insisted Polanski return to the U.S., where he faced certain arrest.
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