Federal authorities have arrested actor Vivek Shah in an extortion scandal, where in the actor threatened co-founder of Miramax Films Harvey Weinstein and a few other multimillionaires for huge amounts of money.
"Paterno," the book by Joe Posnanski went out on shelves on Tuesday. In the biography Author Posnanski writes about Paterno's life from the early years to his rise as the celebrated football coach of PSU and his fall in the last months of life due to the implications of the cover-up in the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse case.
Representative Todd Akin has defied Republican leaders' calls to leave the Missouri Senate race over his inflammatory remarks about rape, but the party is using more than words to convince him to remove his name from the November 6 ballot.
Tony Farmer, 18-year-old star basketball star, collapsed in the court as a judge read out his sentence before a court on Wednesday. The college recruit player was charged with three years for kidnapping his then girlfriend Andrea Lane.
