NEW YORK (AP) — A judge Friday voided the conviction of one of the two men found guilty of the 2002 killing of Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay, ruling that there wasn’t enough evidence that the man had a motive to kill the hip-hop luminary. The reversal, which came as the judge upheld the other [...] Read More »
44 minutes agoDETROIT (AP) — A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship’s sinking in Lake Superior with 29 men aboard. The relics were discovered by a carpenter in 1975 along the shore in Michigan’s [...] Read More »
3 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center on Friday quickly added Donald Trump’s name to the performing arts center Congress designated as a living memorial to John F. Kennedy, a day after the center’s board of trustees voted to make the change. Blue tarps were hung in front of the building to obscure workers on scaffolding [...] Read More »
3 hours agoNEW YORK (AP) — A judge Friday voided the conviction of one of the two men found guilty of the 2002 killing of Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay, ruling that there wasn’t enough evidence that the man had a motive to kill the hip-hop luminary. Nearly two years after a jury delivered its verdict, the [...] Read More »
4 hours agoTORONTO — WildBrain Ltd. has signed a deal to sell its 41 per cent stake in Peanuts Holdings LLC to Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. for $630 million cash. The entertainment company says the net proceeds of the sale of its stake in the firm that holds the rights to [...] Read More »
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