Disgraced former Queens state senator Shirley Huntley was sentenced to one year in prison, and three year probation. She pleaded guilty to mail fraud conspiracy last winter, after admitting to embezzling nearly $88,000 from a state-funded non profit she controlled.
Days before his death in 2009, Michael Jackson told his producer/director Kenny Ortega that "God keeps talking to me." Ortega and associate producer Alif Sankey testified on Wednesday that they became increasingly alarmed at Jackson's frail appearance during his final rehearsals. The lawsuit, brought by Michael Jackson's elderly mother Katherine on behalf of the singer's three children, alleges that privately-held AEG Live was negligent in hiring the physician convicted in 2011 of his involuntary manslaughter to care for her son while he rehearsed for the series of 50 shows.
Ariel Castro, the abductor of three Cleveland women and held them in a dungeon in his basement for 10 years, wrote a suicide note in which he confessed to his crimes, but also blamed the victims for getting into his car. In the note found by investigators, he also claimed that he been abused as a child and raped by an uncle
After being convicted for first degree murder charges for the killing of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, Jodi Arias told FOX-10 Phoenix that she prefers the death penalty over a life in prison.
