The Jodi Arias jury began its first full day of deliberations on Monday, the Huffington Post reported. Arias is accused of stabbing the 30-year-old Travis Alexander nearly 30 times, shooting him in the head and cutting his throat in his Mesa, Arizona home on June 4, 2008.
Police have accused a 17-year old player in a recreational soccer league of punching Ricardo Portillo, a 46-year-old referee after he called a foul on him just for issuing him a yellow car. Portillo died Saturday night after a week in a coma.
A bride to be celebrating her bacherlorette party in Northern California was among the five people killed when a stretch limousine burst into flames while crossing a San Francisco bridge.
Harper Lee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" has sued her literary agent, claiming he tricked her into assigning the copyright on her book to him, Reuters reported. The lawsuit was filed in federal court against Samuel Pinkus, the son-in-law of Lee's long-term agent, Eugene Winick, who had represented her for more than 40 years. In 2002, Winick became ill, and Pinkus diverted several of his clients to his own company.
