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Former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight was arrested in Las Vegas this week. Suge Knight’s marijuana possession charge may end up costing him. After all, he’s currently serving a three year unsupervised probation sentence. His probation stemmed from driving with a suspended license. Officials stopped Knight’s Bentley when he made an unsafe lane change, according to The Hollywood Reporter. After they pulled him over they ran his name. That’s when they discovered the music mogul had other warrants in his name for traffic violations....

This week the US Supreme Court rejected California’s challenge to a preliminary court order forcing the state to come up with a plan to reduce its prison population. The preliminary order came after years of litigation, lack of response to court ordered improvements, and findings that conditions in California prisons which violate the Constitution stem from enormous overcrowding. According to the Associated Press, the high court said it will not disturb the inmate-release order from a three-judge federal panel and will await the state’s appeal of the final order....

AT&T is this country’s largest phone company, but that did not stop it from crying foul when the smaller but scrappier Verizon wireless went after it with their “there’s a map for that” ad campaign. The well known ads, which play off Apple’s iPhone “there’s an app for that” spots, compare maps of wireless coverage between the two companies. In Verizon’s ads, AT&T’s 3G coverage is shown as, well, lacking compared to the apparently endless Verizon 3G coverage....

A federal judge struck down Utah’s ban on gay marriage on Friday, ruling that the law violated constitutional rights to due process and equal protection under the law. U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Shelby wrote in his opinion that Utah laws barring same-sex couples from marrying were in conflict with the fundamental right to marry and were not supported by any rational basis, reports The Salt Lake Tribune. What does Judge Shelby’s ruling mean for gay marriage in the Beehive State?...

Was your police confession coerced? If so, you may be able to have it thrown out, regardless of the truth of your confession. When you are arrested or interrogated, you are at a distinct disadvantage to the authorities. You may be tired, afraid, or just plain confused. You could be questioned by hardened investigators who know all the tricks to trip you up and get you to say the wrong thing....

A military DUI can cause a uniformed service member’s personal and professional worlds to collide and spark an array of negative consequences. Here’s a breakdown of the two types of military DUI cases along with a run-down of their potential outcomes: If You Are Arrested for a DUI by Civilian Police If the state or other civilian authorities charge you with a DUI off a military installation, you will not face a military court martial for the same crime....

Given recent tragedies like the Colorado movie theater shooting and the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, FBI gun background checks are at an all-time high. In December alone, the FBI performed nearly 2.8 million background checks on people wanting to buy guns – a record month in a record-setting year for gun sales, reports CNN. Ironically, the fear of new laws that may prohibit the sales of certain guns following the mass shootings may have sparked this surge in firearm sales....

Wells Fargo’s $3 fee may come as a surprise to consumers who rely heavily on their debit card for spending. The monthly debit card fees come in the wake of legislation that caps the amount that banks can get from merchants in the form of “swipe fees.” So far, Wells Fargo plans to implement the new $3 fee in five states: Oregon, New Mexico, Nevada, Georgia and Washington. The bank will be rolling out the fee starting in October....

It may be called a youth baseball brawl, but there’s usually nothing young about the fight’s participants. In another story of overzealous parenting, three adults, including a local prosecutor, have been charged with 3rd degree assault and disorderly conduct for engaging in a fight during a late-June baseball tournament in Castle Rock, Colorado. They claim they were protecting the youngins. According to Shannon Carlson and her husband Andrew Lee Carlson, the fight erupted after her son and another boy had contested an umpire’s call, reports the Associated Press....

“Teen Mom 2’s” Jenelle Evans has “filed five assault charges” against her husband Courtland Rogers, reports Us Weekly. The reality-TV star also blasted her husband on Twitter, implying that he may have been behind a possible miscarriage. The charges apparently filed against Rogers further confirm this suspicion, as Evans accuses him of assault on a female with an unborn child. In fact, on Jan. 22, Evans was reportedly hospitalized for a miscarriage scare, according to the website Radar Online....

Star baseball player Albert Pujols recently sued ex-player Jack Clark for telling radio listeners Pujols took steroids. Clark responded on Monday by challenging Pujols to take a dual lie detector tests to clear his name. The lie-detector challenge is laid out in one of the snarkiest settlement letters you will ever read (attached below in all its glory). St. Louis lawyer Al Watkins (representing Clark) pulls no punches in his 5-page diatribe that reads more like a Reddit forum post than a legal document....

A PayPal scam involving receipt of a fake notifications through email has been giving users trouble recently, reports San Antonio’s WOAI-TV. PayPal is arguably the e-commerce giant when it comes to sending payments online. With more than 132 million accounts, its popularity not only supports a customer base who trusts them but also scammers who prey on those customers. PayPal scams are not uncommon. Here is a rundown of this one and how you should protect yourself from it:...

A former intern with “The Wendy Williams Show” is suing the production company Lionsgate over the fact that he and others should have been paid for their work. Anthony Tart, in a potential class action filed in federal court, claims that he spent his unpaid internship doing menial tasks like washing dishes and taking out the trash. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tart’s proposed class action would encompass only those “former and current interns” on Wendy Williams’ show, which he estimates at about 100 interns....

A teenage girl’s Facebook party invitation turned viral. Thessa, 16, of Hamburg, Germany, mistakenly forgot to mark her Facebook birthday party invitation as “private.” As a result, about 15,000 people RSVPed for Thessa’s birthday party. Out of the 15,000 who marked they were coming to the event, 1,500 actually showed up at Thessa’s house, reports the AP. Thessa’s parents had canceled the party after they found out about the mass number of RSVPs, and had contacted local police and hired private security to keep their house safe....

A video posted on Facebook of Chicago teens beating a 62-year-old man led to their arrest on Monday. The teens were reportedly playing a violent game of picking out a random stranger and then knocking him out. Malik Jones, 16, Nicholas Ayala, 17, and Anthony Malcolm, 18, surrounded Delfino Mora early on a Saturday morning. Jones asked if he had any money and then punched Mora in the jaw. The crack of his head on the pavement was picked up on the cell phone Ayala and Malcolm were using to record the incident....

With people’s retirement investments taking a hit in the financial crisis and recession, it’s a good time to think about protecting what will be left after one’s death. One way to do so is to plan ahead in order to reduce future probate cost, or even avoid probate altogether. Probate is the legal process for distributing someone’s property after they die. When a person dies, hopefully they have left a valid will....

Christmas trees are popping up in people’s windows all over town, but those cheerful decorations can also lead to an increase in crime. To you it may look like a festive decoration of pine, lights, and ornaments. But to a potential robber, that pile of presents under the tree is almost like a home-shopping catalog, law-enforcement experts warn. Keeping your presents to yourself doesn’t mean you have to take down your Christmas decorations....

Last month, 11 diabetes sufferers banded together to sue the makers of the life saving insulin drugs they rely upon to manage their conditions as a result of alleged price fixing, fraud, and racketeering. Their complaint alleges that the manufacturers conspired to raise their prices at virtually identical times and by nearly identical amounts, such that over the last 20 years, the price has gone up 700 percent. One such drug went from $21 in 1996, to $255 in 2016....

While there are no specific laws outlawing homelessness per se, many cities have ordinances that essentially make it illegal to be homeless. As just one example, good Samaritans from Texas to Florida have been ticketed or arrested for just giving food to the homeless. To help you better understand the laws, here are some local laws and ordinances that cover homelessness: Is Sleeping in Public or in Your Car Illegal? The majority of jurisdictions enforce so-called “catch-all” crimes against the homeless....

He’s just not that into you. It’s a message former tennis star Jennifer Capriati should have taken seriously when her boyfriend Dwight Brannan broke up with her in early 2012. Now, Capriati has been charged with battery and stalking, reports the Sun Sentinel. Capriati, once the world’s No. 1-ranked tennis player, has been ordered to appear in Palm Beach County court to face allegations that she was stalking her ex-boyfriend. She’s also been charged with battery after she allegedly punched him four times as he was working out at the gym....