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The rapper, who has been in jail since 2021, was sentenced to 20 years but could be released in a matter of months due to time served and a probational period Rapper YFN Lucci pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a single count of violating the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act. The charge is connected to the late 2020 shooting of 28-year-old James Adams in Atlanta. The musician, born Rayshawn Bennett, was arrested in January 2021 and charged with murder for his role as a driver in the shooting. He…

LOS ANGELES — A woman charged with killing a high-profile marketing consultant and social justice advocate in film pleaded not guilty Monday. Jameelah Elena Michl, 36, entered the plea in Los Angeles Superior Court to charges of murder and burglary, with additional allegations that she used a firearm to commit the felonies. Prosecutors say she knocked on the door of the Los Angeles home of Michael Latt — then forced her way in and fatally shot him with a semi-automatic handgun on Nov. 27. He was later declared dead at a…

A Los Angeles police officer who was caught on video repeatedly punching a homeless man in Boyle Heights two years ago pleaded no contest to assault Thursday, authorities said.Frank Hernandez, 51, will not serve time in prison for the crime. He was sentenced to two years of probation, 80 hours of community service and a year of anger management classes under the terms of a plea agreement announced during a hearing in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.Officers were responding to a trespassing call on Houston Street in…

Actor Pierce Brosnan has maintained he did no wrong while hiking in Yellowstone`s hot springs. In December, the actor was cited in Wyoming after allegedly entering protected thermal areas of Yellowstone National Park. A seemingly since-deleted photo of the actor standing on a white crust that resembles some of the park`s thermal attractions surfaced last month, reports People magazine. TMZ had shared the since deleted picture. Earlier this month, Brosnan pleaded not guilty to the charges against him, per an additional…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePierce Brosnan has pleaded not guilty to charges of walking in a restricted area of Yellowstone National Park.The 70-year-old star, who famously played James Bond across four movies, was accused of hiking through off-limits “thermal areas” near Mammoth Hot Springs on 1 November last year.That would have violated several closures in the northern part of Yellowstone, near the…

A$AP Rocky is adamant he didn’t shoot his former friend A$AP Relli at a Hollywood, California, intersection two years ago and is taking the case to a jury. The Grammy-nominated rapper entered a new not guilty plea at a hearing Monday after a Los Angeles judge ruled in November that prosecutors had enough evidence to warrant trial on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. Rocky, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers, is accused of opening fire on the corner of of Selma Ave. and Vista Del Mar Ave. in…

Jodi Hildebrandt, podcast co-host and business partner of infamous mommy vlogger Ruby Franke, pleaded guilty Wednesday to four counts of felony aggravated child abuse, news station KUTV reports. Similar to Franke’s plea last week, two of Hildebrandt’s counts were dropped as part of a currently undisclosed plea deal. (Representatives for Hildebrandt were unable to be reached for comment.)  Hildebrandt, a former licensed therapist, ran the Utah-based coaching service and parenting “masterclass” ConneXions, which she…

Infamous mommy vlogger and influencer Ruby Franke has pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree felony child abuse, according to KUTV. Franke was charged in Utah with six counts of aggravated child abuse, but two were dropped as a part of her deal. The news comes after three months of ongoing hearings, which have not been live-streamed to the public after Franke fans disrupted earlier sessions. (Representatives for Franke did not respond to Rolling Stone’s requests for comment.) Franke is best known as the…

More than five years ago, Orange County’s top prosecutor stood before the cameras and declared Grant Robicheaux a prolific sex criminal — a hand surgeon accused of weaponizing his looks and reality-TV celebrity to lure women, then drugging and assaulting them. More than a dozen accusers had come forward, the district attorney said, alleging that Robicheaux had left a trove of evidence by videotaping his crimes.The case that began in 2018 with a tabloid frenzy took a wild, twisting road to collapse, ending in a Fullerton…

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular recap of the past few days in tech. The headlines have been dominated — nay, overwhelmed — by the drama unfolding at AI startup OpenAI, but plenty else happened in the half-week leading up to Thanksgiving. So much for a sleepy pre-holiday! In this edition of WiR, besides the OpenAI saga, we cover Apple finally bringing RCS to iPhones, a former Silicon Valley VC darling being convicted of investor fraud, Cruise co-founder Kyle Vogt resigning and Amazon…