William F. Nolan, the science fiction author best known for co-penning the 1967 classicLogan’s Run with the late George Clayton Johnson, has died, a representative confirmed to Rolling Stone. He was 93. Nolan passed away on July 15th after a brief hospital stay following complications from an infection. The prolific …
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Early in the morning of December 5th, 1982, a trucker stopped at a weigh station along I-10 in Jackson County, Mississippi, to call 911. He thought he’d seen a body in a river, he told the dispatcher. It looked like a person wearing a blue-checkered shirt floating near an ice …
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UPDATE (5/21):Danny Masterson will stand trial on charges that he raped three women on separate occasions between 2001 and 2003, Variety reports. Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo issued the ruling Friday, May 21st, following a preliminary hearing that began earlier this week and featured testimony from all three of the actor’s …
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Willie Nelson and Luck Presents have announced the virtual cannabis convention Luck Summit: Planting the Seed, kicking off April 26th. Margo Price, Beto O’Rourke, Tommy Chong, Charlie Sexton, Billy Strings and Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Sid Miller will serve as panelists for the event, Variety reports, with United States Cannabis …
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Over the past year or so, it’s become something of a rite of passage for celebrities of a certain tier — think reality TV villains, Disney stars gone wild, and British tabloid mainstays — to tease starting an OnlyFans account. And way back in February, the rapper Bhad Bhabie, a.k.a. …
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The WWE has announced that WrestleMania 37 is going to take place in front of a live audience for the first time since the onset of Covid-19. The news broke shortly after Super Bowl LV, which was played in front of a partially filled stadium in February. If you’re curious …
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UPDATE (1/20): Joseph Biggs, an organizer with the Proud Boys, is the latest to be arrested and charged for participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month, NBC News reports. Biggs was seen in several videos and photos taken inside the Capitol, including one where he pulled …
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Purdue Pharma, the makers of the painkiller OxyContin, pleaded guilty to three federal criminal felony charges Wednesday as part of an $8.3 billion resolution involving the pharmaceutical company at the center of the nation’s decades-long opioid epidemic. Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to are one count of dual-object conspiracy to defraud …
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The City of Louisville, Kentucky will pay the family of Breonna Taylor $12 million and institute a new set of policing reforms to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. The settlement was confirmed and detailed at a press conference Tuesday, September 15th, with Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, Taylor’s family and their …
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The California Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of Scott Peterson, who was convicted of first-degree murder of his pregnant wife Laci Peterson in a highly publicized criminal case nearly 16 years ago, CBS San Francisco reports. While the court decision leaves Peterson’s murder conviction in place, it has …
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