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By JESSE BEDAYN (Associated Press/Report for America) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Colorado judge on Thursday granted a defense request to delay the criminal case against two Colorado funeral home operators accused of letting nearly 200 corpses decay, in some cases for years, angering some families of the deceased who are eager for the case to be resolved. Jon and Carie Hallford are now scheduled to enter pleas to the numerous felony charges they face in June, with a tentative trial date in October. That would be a year…

Actor Johnny Depp has reacted after his Blow co-star Lola Glaudini accused him of verbally abusing her on sets of their 2001 film. As reported by Deadline, Johnny's response came after an episode of the Powerful Truth Angels podcast from January 30 recently emerged on social media. In the podcast, Lola recounted how she was mistreated by Johnny. (Also Read | Johnny Depp reacts as Ranveer Singh thanks him for 'unknowingly' teaching him about craft) Johnny Depp and Lola Glaudini starred in Blow. What Johnny has…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJohnny Depp has responded after being accused of treating his Blow co-star Lola Glaudini aggressively on the film’s set.The actor, who won a defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard in 2022, has now been accused of aggressive treatment by Criminal Minds actor Lola Glaudini on the set of the 2001 crime drama.Speaking on a recent episode of the Powerful Truth Angels podcast,…

Jonathan Majors' former girlfriend sued him Tuesday on civil allegations including assault, battery, defamation and infliction of emotional distress, three months after the actor was convicted in a criminal trial of assaulting her in New York City. HT Image Grace Jabbari, a 31-year-old British dancer, filed the action in federal court in Manhattan, claiming Majors subjected her to escalating incidents of physical and verbal abuse from 2021 to 2023. Hindustan Times - your fastest source for breaking news!…

It was one thing writing about the abuses of his childhood, Charles Spencer tells me, with half an ironic laugh; it’s quite another talking about them with strangers. When we meet in an office at his publisher, he is reeling a bit from this new fact of his life. The more sensational chapters of his memoir of a deeply traumatic five years at the Northamptonshire prep school Maidwell Hall had been splashed all over the previous week’s Mail on Sunday. The following morning, he had been a guest on Lorraine Kelly’s mid-morning…

Research from the University of Geneva reveals that impulsivity affects cocaine abuse risk not by altering dopamine production but through other mechanisms, indicating new directions for understanding and treating drug abuse vulnerability.A team from UNIGE has demonstrated that the production of dopamine, often referred to as the “happiness hormone,” is not linked to a higher risk of drug susceptibility.Why do some people who try drugs struggle with substance abuse while others don’t? This question has long puzzled…

A SpaceX employee says that she spent seven years working at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California enduring sexual abuse, unequal pay, discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation, in a new lawsuit against the company. But her story paints a much graver picture than those individual words can convey, describing widespread harassment and coordinated action to not only enable but also later give cover for sexual coercion, by a man she says was her direct supervisor. The employee, Michelle Dopak, also…

Three years after Drake Bell was sentenced in a case related to allegations of sexual contact with an underaged girl he met online, the former Nickelodeon star is opening up in a new docu-series about how he was the victim of alleged sexual abuse, back when he was a child actor working for the network. Bell, best known for his starring role in “Drake and Josh,” claims he was abused by Brian Peck, his former dialogue coach on “The Amanda Show,” according to a promotional clip for the series, “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of…

An upcoming Investigation Discovery series Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV released a trailer on Tuesday featuring former child actor Drake Bell. According to a press release from Investigation Discovery via Variety, the clip “reveals that former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell will be sharing publicly, for the first time, the story of the abuse he suffered at the hands of Brian Peck, his former dialogue coach who was convicted in 2004 for his crimes against Drake and ordered to register as a sex offender.”…