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...Late Thursday afternoon, after nearly two hours of speculation, the Los Angeles coroner confirmed that Michael Jackson had died, apparently of cardiac arrest. Hundreds of fans gathered around UCLA Medical Center, where the 50-year-old "King of Pop" had been rushed reportedly after collapsing at home. (See pictures of people around the world mourning Michael Jackson...
...York City resident Jabrai Jordan Copney, 20, one of the three men alleged to have been involved in the drug-related shooting death of Justin Cosby in Kirkland House last month, was indicted late Thursday night by a grand jury on charges that include first degree murder and armed robbery...
...particular his bizarre relationship with Letizia. Earlier this month, the scandal really took off: Photographs came out in the Spanish newspaper, El Pais, which depicted nude guests (including Mirek Toplanek, the former Czech prime minister) at a party that Berlusconi had hosted at Villa Certosa last summer. Then on Thursday the Italian press reported that Berlusconi allegedly paid female escorts to go to dinner parties with...
Attendees of Thursday's protest also included at least two faculty members. Afsaneh Najmabadi, a professor of history and women, gender, and sexuality studies, said that layoffs were "not the only or the best option" to reduce costs at the University, and Brad Epps, a professor of romance languages and literatures and WGS, said he was "mad as hell" that workers had been laid off while senior faculty and administrators remain, to his knowledge, untouched...
...range of other unpleasant consequences of his behavior. Even as pundits were writing the political obituary of a fiscal conservative many had touted as a GOP presidential hopeful for 2012, The State newspaper of Columbia published personal e-mails the governor had sent to his paramour, named Maria. (Thursday's edition of Buenos Aires newspaper La Nacion identified her as Maria Belen Chapur, a 43-year-old divorced mother of two who lives in the fashionable district of Palermo and works for an agricultural company.) In one, Sanford gushes about Maria's "magnificent gentle kisses," tan lines, hips and "erotic...