UConn player's murderer gets 18 years
Jasper Howard
/ Personal Photo(CBS/AP) VERNON, Conn. - The man who killed University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard during an on-campus fight in 2009 was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison.
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/ YouTube/Ceres P.D.(CBS/KOVR) CERES, Calif. - Detectives in California arrested mother Jennifer Zuniga for allegedly orchestrating a fight between her son and another boy in her front yard and then posting the video online.
Continue »Lil Wayne sued for $20 million
Rapper Lil Wayne, file
/ AP Photo/Steve Nesius(CBS) - Darius Harrison, the producer of Lil Wayne's hit song "Lollipop," is reportedly suing the rapper for $20 million, claiming that in addition to "Lollipop," he produced five other songs off of the album "Tha Carter 3."
Continue »"Pawn Stars" co-star arrested after bar fight
"Pawn Stars" co-star Big Hoss
/ History Channel(CBS/AP) BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. - "Pawn Stars" co-star Corey "Big Hoss" Harrison has been arrested after a barroom fight at a California mountain resort.
San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire says the 27-year-old reality star from Las Vegas shoved a deputy and security guard late Sunday at Murray's Saloon and Eatery in Big Bear Lake about 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
Continue »Turtle causes blaze in NYC apartment
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(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Fire officials in New York City say a lumbering pet turtle named Giovani sparked a fast-moving fire in a Brooklyn apartment after crawling out of its tank and knocking over the terrarium's heat lamp.
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Continue »Charlie Sheen sues for $100 million
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(CBS/AP) - Unemployed actor and full-time Twitter powerhouse Charlie Sheen has filed a lawsuit against "Two and a Half Men" co-creator Chuck Lorre and production company Warner Bros. for $100 million plus punitive damages, according to a report.
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Continue »Cops: Gator used to protect Calif. pot stash
American Alligator, file
/ iStockphoto(CBS/AP) HEMET, Calif. - California narcotics investigators raiding a home's $1.5 million marijuana growing operation found an alligator guarding the stash.
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Continue »Sheen suing over "ridiculous" termination
(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Charlie Sheen's lawyer says that the actor is planning to sue Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre for firing the actor from "Two and a Half Men."
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Continue »R.I. dad will kill son's killer if man's freed
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(CBS/AP) PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The father of a 5-year-old boy slain by a neighbor in 1975 - who then kept the boy's shellacked skull and bones in his bedroom dresser - says he'll kill the man who was convicted if he is released 12 years early from a 40-year sentence.
Continue »Charlie Sheen plans to sure for "bazillions"
Charlie Sheen and Rachel Oberlin in a photo Sheen posted on Twitter with the caption "Choose your vice."
/ Twitter(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Charlie Sheen is reportedly planning to sue after being fired from "Two and a Half Men."
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