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Courtney Love’s daughter Frances Cobain will now have to live with her paternal grandmother Wendy ‘O Connor and her paternal aunt Kimberly Dawn Cobain. Frances Bean Cobain is the daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. Reuters reports that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has granted temporary custody of the minor to the two legal guardians, but the reasons for the decision are not yet known for sure. There has certainly been some speculation, though....

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that a drug dog’s “sniff is up to snuff,” despite a Florida court’s ruling that police failed to prove the dog’s sniff was reliable. The High Court found that police training records established the reliability of the dog, Aldo, in sniffing out illegal drugs. As a result, his handler had reason to believe that a vehicle was carrying illegal drugs based on the dog’s reaction, reports Reuters....

Bodybuilding pills are marketed as a fitness supplement designed to help an athlete achieve optimum results. The FDA is now warning that bodybuilding pills are being spike by supplement makers – adding dangerous additions into the product without notifying the unassuming consumer. U.S. health authorities have now warned supplement makers that they could be facing criminal consequences for their tainted products. Unlike drugs supplements, bodybuilding pills other supplements do not have to be proven safe before being sold to the general public....

The U.S. Fifth District has revived Price v. Philip Morris, a $10 billion class action lawsuit against Philip Morris, now part of Altria Group. The 2000 case began when the law firm Korein Tillery sued Philip Morris on behalf of Sharon Price, contending their light and low tar cigarettes were illegal under consumer fraud law. The class members alleged that Philip Morris and Altria violated the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act by fraudulently advertising that their “light” cigarettes delivered less tar and nicotine than regular brands....

A California jury has awarded Loren “Bill” Kransky $8.3 million in what could be the first of thousands of verdicts against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for injuries caused by a metal hip inplant, developed by the company’s DePuy unit. Jurors found that the health care products company was negligent in designing the ASR hip implant. Kransky’s award includes $338,136 for his medical bills and $8 million for his physical pain and mental suffering, reports Bloomberg....

Keurig has announced that the company is recalling more than 7 million of its MINI Plus Brewing systems after consumers reported being burned by hot liquid spraying from the machines. The company has received 90 reports of burn injuries caused by the malfunctioning coffee makers, Reuters reports. Seventeen of those injuries occurred in Canada, which is included in the recall issued jointly by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada....

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are suing YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley for allegedly posting a video of their proposal online. If you’re imagining some guy creeping on the couple during a private moment, think again. The proposal took place at AT&T Park (which Kanye rented from the San Francisco Giants), and another company had exclusive rights over the footage of the romantic moment. The suit is more about allegedly violating a private contract than interfering with a private moment....

Another day, another lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein was one of the powerful figures in Hollywood up until being accused of sexual harassment and assault by several women. The latest lawsuit filed by the New York Attorney General is a result of a four month investigation. Some New Allegations… The lawsuit claims that Weinstein, his brother, and their company committed “egregious violations of New York’s civil rights, human rights, and business laws....

Pop goddess Madonna is struggling with her former husband, filmmaker Guy Ritchie, over the custody of their son Rocco, according to Us Weekly. The mother of 4, who lost her own mother at an early age, is allegedly very upset about the fact that her son has remained in London with his father despite court orders to return to New York. She reportedly plans to continue to take legal action to get him back but neither Madonna’s nor Ritchie’s representatives would comment on the family feud to reporters....

Merck is set to pay millions to settle claims related to its NuvaRing contraceptive, an intrauterine device that’s been associated with heart attacks, strokes, and death. The pharmaceutical company announced Friday that it plans to pay $100 million to settle nationwide lawsuits over NuvaRing, which allegedly increased users’ risks of forming dangerous blood clots, Reuters reports. How will former NuvaRing users be compensated? Unfortunately, a Danish study released in 2012 found that women using NuvaRing may be twice as likely to develop dangerous blood clots....

Did you know that some of your favorite mobile apps are accessing your address book – without your permission? Apparently some of the biggest and most popular mobile apps do this. They use your address book data to help you find friends who also use their program. But oftentimes they do not explicitly tell consumers that their information is being transmitted. Or, that the information is actually being stored. Recently, social network app Path received bad publicity....

At the start of the year, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill that would have relaxed the knife laws in New York. The current laws, which are outdated, according to critics, unfairly targets trade workers. If you carry a pocket knife in New York, and in many other states and cities across the country, you may be breaking the law without even knowing it. In addition to the federal ban on switchblades, certain types of knives, including switchblades, gravity knives, and large or exceptionally dangerous knives, are illegal in New York, and other states as well....

States have been steadily cracking down on drunk drivers, in part by instituting harsher punishments for first-time DUIs. One of those punishments is requiring drivers to install an ignition interlock device – a sort of breathalyzer for your car that requires drives to provide a clean breath sample before starting the car. According to researchers, these efforts might be paying off. A new Johns Hopkins study found that states that passed mandatory interlock ignition laws saw a seven percent decrease in fatal drunk driving accidents....

An airport security screener’s alleged departure from procedure will soon lead to her arrival in court. The TSA agent stole $5,000 from a passenger at New York’s JFK airport in a brazen crime caught on tape, police say. TSA agent Alexandra Schmid, 31, of Brooklyn, faces a charge of grand larceny, the New York Post reports. Police arrested Schmid after a passenger complained that $5,000 was missing from his jacket Wednesday night....

Actor Thomas Gibson, best known for his roles on TV’s “Criminal Minds” and “Dharma & Greg,” was arrested in Los Angeles over the weekend on suspicion of DUI. The 50-year-old actor was driving in downtown LA about 1 a.m. Sunday when he tried to drive through a part of town that had been blocked off for a half-marathon, reports The Huffington Post. In fact, some witnesses say that the actor tried to drive his Audi SUV through the marathon barricade while the nighttime race was still going on, interrupting several runners....

Four Alabama legislators are facing charges in a massive vote-buying operation. Democrats Larry Means and Quinton Ross as well as Republican James Pruiett and independent Harri Anne Smith stand accused of serious crimes by the Justice Department. U.S. authorities have charged the legislators as well as three lobbyists and two businessmen who owned casinos, in an attempted conspiracy to pass legislation expanding electronic bingo. The charges are a full on political crime buffet: conspiracy, bribery, extortion, money laundering, mail and wire fraud, obstruction of justice and making false statements....

If you watch MTV’s “Jersey Shore” you know that laying in a tanning bed is a daily ritual for the guys. But did you know that tanning that way could be hazardous to your health? Jersey Shore glamorizes tanning beds. Every day, the guys do their GTLs (Gym Tanning and Laundry) “to stay fresh and mint” as Mike, “The Situation” puts it. But we’re finding out that being fresh and mint can lead to a deadly form of skin cancer....

From sucking on pennies to chewing gum, there are a lot of urban legends purporting to share proven ways by which a person can beat a breathalyzer. Guess what? None of them are true. The fact is that breathalyzers measure the concentration of alcohol in your breath–that is, the amount of evaporated alcohol in the air that you expel while breathing. Sucking or chewing on a substance will only change the way your breath smells, not its alcohol concentration....

On Friday, March 26, a the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia put into action the decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in the famous Citizens United v. FEC. That decision, criticized by many, including President Obama, struck down spending limits on corporations’ campaign contributions to support or defeat political candidates. As The Washington Post reports, the ruling of the D.C. court following the Supreme Court is expected to “unleash a flood of money ahead of the congressional elections in November …”...

Martin Shkreli loves making a stink, and he will do it at almost any cost. The US’s most reviled pharmaceutical company executive yesterday offered $10 million to exclusively buy Kanye West’s new album, The Life of Pablo. He tweeted a copy of his offer letter to the pop star, and followed up that Kanye must by law consider the offer and, thus, delay his album’s release. Kanye, who loves outrageous statements but only if he makes them, appears unmoved by Shkreli’s claims or offer....