Arizona authorities have arrested an 18-year-old Laquint Cherry, a Phoenix man, who was held in connection with a bomb threat that was tweeted after the Jodi Arias verdict was announced. Maricopa County Sheriff's Deputy Joaquin Enriquez said that Cherry was taken into custody early Thursday, and faced with a felony charge for making threats
Kathleen Dorsett, the 38-year-old former third-grade teacher and her parents pleaded guilty on Thursday to working together in an effort to kill her ex-husband, in a convoluted murder plot executed by her father Thomas. They also attempted to murder his mother. The father and daughter told a judge they were angry about the divorce decree and custody arrangements for the couple's daughter, who was 20 months old.
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.
