
For years, writer Laura Albert went to strange lengths to hide her identity behind an alter ego named JT LeRoy.
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Prosecutors announced they would charge a graduate student in the crash that killed journalist David Halberstam, saying the younger man ran a red light while making an illegal left turn.
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Chicago's biggest mob trial in years started Thursday with a prosecutor urging the jury to forget what they know about movie mobsters and see the now-elderly defendants for who they are: men who "committed brutal crimes on behalf of the Chicago Outfit."
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Jurors in Phil Spector's murder trial were bombarded Tuesday with photos of actress Lana Clarkson's face, some showing blood oozing from her mouth and nose, as a forensic analyst described her wounds.
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