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Former "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" star James "Tim" Norman was sentenced to life in prison Thursday in St. Louis after being convicted of arranging the 2016 murder of his nephew Andre Montgomery, Jr, 21, in order to collect a life insurance payment. In September, Norman was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit fraud.The 43-year-old starred alongside Montgomery in the long-running OWN reality show about their family’s soul food business in St.

Disgraced singer and producer R. Kelly was sentenced to an additional 20 years in prison on charges of child pornography and enticement of minors for sex on Thursday. The 56-year-old will serve all but one of those years simultaneously with a 30-year sentence on racketeering and sex trafficking convictions.

R. Kelly was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison for child pornography and enticement of minors for sex but will serve all but one of those simultaneously with a 30-year sentence on racketeering and sex trafficking convictions.

UPDATE: Film producer Dillon Jordan was sentenced in New York City today to the maximum of five years in prison for running a high-end prostitution ring. He was sentenced in New York for providing women to clients and organizing sex parties in the US and abroad.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes attempted to leave the US shortly after she was convicted of fraud last year, prosecutors claimed in a court filing this week.

A day after a federal judge ordered Donald Trump and his attorney to pay nearly $1 million in sanctions for filing a quickly dismissed lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and 30 others, the former president dropped a case against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Yesterday, Universal’s troubles suddenly weren’t so far away, at least when it comes to Ana de Armas’ absence from the 2019 Danny Boyle directed flick Yesterday.

The battle between Live PD and On Patrol: Live producer Big Fish Entertainment and A&E Television Networks is heating up.

A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order dissolving the trusteeship of NABET-CWA Local 41, which represents broadcast technicians at ABC, NBC Telemundo, Univision and ESPN in Chicago.

Attorney Michael Avenatti, once a cable news fixture for his commentary on Donald Trump, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for defrauding clients and for obstructing an IRS collection effort.

Todd Chrisley's son Kyle Chrisley took to social media Tuesday with a Bible verse about judging others after his father Todd Chrisley was sentenced to 12 years in prison in his conviction in a bank fraud and tax evasion case.Kyle, 31, took to Instagram Stories a day after Todd was convicted along with wife Julie Chrisley, who received a seven-year sentence in the case, sharing the Bible verse Matthew 7:3-5. It reads: 'Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.  The latest: Todd Chrisley's son Kyle, 31, took to social media Tuesday after his father was sentenced to 12 years in prison in his conviction in a bank fraud and tax evasion case 'Who do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?' Todd is father to Kyle and daughter Lindsie, 33, with his ex-wife, Teresa Terry; and father to sons Chase, 26, and Grayson, 16, and daughter Savannah, 25, with Julie.

UPDATED,  2:40 PM: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison following her January conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges related to her company’s failed blood-testing technology.

Paramount has come up short in its effort to ground a Top Gun: Maverick copyright lawsuit.

UPDATE: Disney and 20th Television no longer face a disparate impact claim in a lawsuit brought by actor Rockmond Dunbar. 

SAG-AFTRA and the WGA East, which together represent thousands of broadcast and digital reporters, say they’re “deeply distressed” by a federal judge’s ruling that would allow Starbucks to subpoena a wide range of communications between workers seeking to unionize and journalists reporting on their organizing efforts.

Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon has been sentenced to four months in prison for ignoring subpoenas from the Congressional committee investigating the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. Bannon also was fined $6,500. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols agreed to delay the sentencing while Bannon appeals, “as long as the appeal is timely,” according to Politico.

A judge has dismissed one of the legal claims Kevin Spacey faces from Anthony Rapp, who claimed the former "House of Cards" star made a sexual advance on him when he was just 14 years old. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Lewis A.

A judge dismissed Monday one of the legal claims Kevin Spacey faces from actor Anthony Rapp, who says Spacey made a sexual advance on him in his apartment in the 1980s when he was 14 years old.

The first batch of guilty pleas involving about 50 people charged in a $250 million scheme to defraud a federal meals program in Minnesota were entered Thursday in a Minneapolis courtroom. Hadith Ahmed, 33, who worked for the Feeding Our Future program, became the first employee to plead guilty and testify about the fraud. He admitted to taking more than $1.3 million in bribes to help other co-conspirators.

Kevin Spacey’s civil sex abuse trial will go on after one of Spacey's lead lawyers tested positive for COVID-19, a judge said Thursday. U.S. District Judge Lewis A.

A federal judge in Missouri will determine whether to temporarily block President Biden's student loan handout after attorneys representing the administration and several Republican-led states gave their arguments at a Wednesday hearing. Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and South Carolina challenged the program, claiming that the Department of Education lacks the authority to cancel debt to this degree. "What they’re trying to do is go around Congress, and this they can’t do," Nebraska Solicitor General James Campbell told U.S.