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Three weeks after opening statements began, Danny Masterson's rape retrial rested today. Yet, with the former That 70’s Show actor once again facing a trio of sexual assault charges and potentially years behind bars, the Church of Scientology is back in the courtroom spotlight. After the…

Hollywood’s Big Night is just around the corner, but Hollywood’s Traffic Nightmare is just beginning. As the town gears up for the 95th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, city officials are starting to close down streets around the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland. Below is a look at which…

A pair of shootings of Jewish men after they left synagogues in the Pico-Robertson district less than 24 hours apart are being investigated as hate crimes by the Los Angeles Police Department and FBI, Mayor Karen Bass said. A suspect in the shootings was arrested Thursday night, police said. Federal…

Facing multiple criminal charges of rape, former Scrubs co-executive producer Eric Weinberg moved one step close to a trial today. In a sometimes turbulent session Thursday, a  Los Angeles Superior Court judge set a preliminary hearing for April 25 for Weinberg. Denied bail and incarcerated in…

UPDATED with latest: A man who shot Lady Gaga’s dog walker during the theft of two of the singer’s French bulldogs pleaded no contest today to an attempted murder charge and was immediately sentenced to 21 years in prison. James Howard Jackson, 20, pleaded no contest to the single count of attempted murder…

Former Scrubs co-executive producer Eric Weinberg, currently incarcerated in downtown Los Angeles on 18 criminal counts of rape, has been sued in civil court by two different women for sexual assault. "Plaintiff C.D. suffered physical, emotional, and economic harm as a result of Weinberg's assault…

UPDATED with details of CBS executives noted in AG report: A captain at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) directly and repeatedly interfered with an open investigation into allegations of sexual assault against former CBS CEO Moonves, New York Attorney General Letitia James said today, providing…

UPDATED with afternoon session: A Los Angeles police officer testified Thursday during Danny Masterson's rape trial that while didn’t remember the specifics of an initial meeting with Jane Doe #1 in 2004 at the LAPD Hollywood station, he did take her claims about being attacked by Masterson in his…

2ND UPDATE: "I couldn't believe it, I didn't want to believe it," a crying Jane Doe #1 told a downtown Los Angeles courtroom in the Danny Masterson rape trial Thursday afternoon, about a phone call she had with Masterson soon after the defendant allegedly sexually assaulted her in April 2003. The That ’70s…

UPDATED with cause of death: Actress Lindsey Pearlman’s death has been listed as a suicide, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. The body of the 43-year-old actress, whose credits included roles on General Hospital, Empire, and Chicago Justice, was found by Los Angeles police on Feb. 18 in a vehicle…

Nearly a week after a fiery car crash put her in the hospital, Anne Heche now is under investigation for felony DUI after drugs were found in her system, police confirmed today. “Based on the blood work, it revealed the presence of narcotics," Officer Lizeth Lomeli of the LAPD told Deadline on Wednesday. Anne Heche: A…

Bravo may have turned out the lights on Shahs of Sunset earlier this year, but Mike Shouhed of the Ryan Seacrest-executive produced reality series is in the spotlight on a mix of domestic violence and weapons charges. Several months after the real estate broker was arrested on “intimate partner violence with injury&#8221…