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Acting couple Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have not been married long but already they are divorcing and already their divorce case is spawning other lawsuits. The first is Heard’s filing, a defamation claim against comedian Doug Stanhope, who posted an article in defense of Depp on May 29 in TheWrap.com. In this article, which has since been removed from the website, Stanhope accuses Heard of blackmailing Depp and lying about his alleged domestic abuse....

The search for a missing Washington toddler has taken a strange turn–into sugar daddy land. The boy’s mother, Julia Biryukova, had posted on seekingarrangement.com, a site used by those seeking a sugar daddy (or baby) soul mate. Police are now questioning the site’s owner about the case, hoping to find information on possible kidnapping suspects. But Biryukova’s use of the website raises one other question: Are sugar daddies legal? For starters, some sugar daddies are expected to provide their younger, and probably hotter, “sugar babies,” with monthly gifts and an allowance....

With summer now in full swing, many of us will be spending more time out on the water. And many newcomers to the boating scene are surprised to discover that you can get a DUI on a boat. According to the Coast Guard, “a boat operator with a blood alcohol concentration above .10 percent is estimated to be more than 10 times as likely to die in a boating accident than an operator with zero blood alcohol concentration....

Chris Brown took a bloody hit to the chin in a bar fight with Drake that reportedly revolved around the rappers’ relationships with Rihanna. Fellow rapper Meek Mill may also have been involved. At least five people were hurt in the brawl that involved punches and bottles being thrown in the basement of a trendy club in Manhattan early Thursday, the New York Post reports. The brawl apparently began when Brown sent a bottle over to Drake’s table, a gesture that was not well received, according to Russell Simmons’ hip-hop blog Global Grind....

Your credit report is an incredibly important document, but that doesn’t mean it’s immune to mistakes. Some of those mistakes might be due to human error or carelessness when entering data. But problems can also crop up on your credit report if you’re the victim of identity theft. All of those fake purchases can really hurt your credit score. You have the right to contest entries in your credit score and remove fraudulent information....

It costs a lot to run a criminal justice system that accuses, investigates, prosecutes, and incarcerates people. Increasingly, jurisdictions are passing on the costs of the system to those caught up in it. This is meant to help localities pay for criminal justice, but the result is that poor people especially are finding it very difficult to escape the clutches of the system, sometimes long after they have done the time for their crimes....

Certain late-model sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) performed worse than a number of cars in crash tests, based on test results released Thursday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The Jeep Grand Cherokee and Chevrolet TrailBlazer were among the worst SUV performers in “serious side crashes.” According to Reuters, the fact that certain SUVs performed worse than standard-size cars “challenges a belief among consumers that sport utility occupants are safer in some crashes because they are heavier than cars and occupants are seated higher....

Smuggling pot is a risky venture. Sleeping on top of the 353 pounds of marijuana that drug traffickers tasked you with bringing across the U.S.-Mexico border only increases that risk. Just ask Luis Alberto Pesina-Hernandez and Jesus Vela-Rodriguez, the two men nabbed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents early Saturday morning near the Brownsville, Texas Landfill a few kilometers from the border. No, this is not an episode from Weeds,…yet....

The 2005 Natalee Holloway murder case lives on. FBI agents are now headed to Peru in order to analyze Joran Van der Sloot’s laptop. Holloway disappeared during a high school graduation group trip to Aruba. Van der Sloot was the last person seen with her and was arrested twice in the case, but was not charged. The FBI is looking for clues to solve the Holloway case. The fact that they are making the trip suggests that there could be specific information they are targeting, but that is only speculation....

Blogs from the Stylist.com to Business Insider are a-buzz this week with the news that Italian fashion house Fendi has won a major award against down-market discount retailer Burlington Coat Factory for their breach of a 20+ year old injunction for trademark infringement. The cost: $4.7 million. That will buy a few Baguette bags. The original order prohibiting Burlington from selling fake Fendi’s was signed in 1987. (Fun fact: Business Insider reports that Justice Sonja Sotomayor was a part of the team that put the injunction in place....

This year was quite an epic year for Hollywood. Some of the top celebrity stories featured reality stars, veteran actors, and troubled starlets. What do all of the biggest celebrity stories of 2011 have in common? Drama. It seems that when celebrities aren’t in the movie or recording studio, they’re busy getting into fights, filing lawsuits, and just plain acting crazy. And, let’s face it. That’s why we love celebrities and stars in the first place....

Tasers and other brands of stun guns are commonly used by law enforcement for subduing fleeing or combative suspects. Increasingly, however, interest in Tasers is extending beyond law enforcement, with regular citizens looking to possess or even carry a Taser on their person for their own protection. Is it legal to possess and potentially use a Taser? Here’s a general overview: Tasers are legal for law enforcement use in every state, according to Taser International....

We all have different ideas of appropriate communication based on our backgrounds, experiences, and occupations. Take the New York City Police Department, whose spokesman called sound cannons, “A safe and effective communication tool.” The police department is being sued by a group of 5 photojournalists, activists, and students who say they were injured by the sound cannons at a protest in December 2014, according to Reuters. The group is seeking unspecified damages for use of these allegedly deafening devices to disperse legal protesters, calling it unconstitutional....

Joran van der Sloot is set to be extradited to the United States to stand trial for a crime he allegedly commited in the wake of Natalee Holloway’s disappearance. But his extradition won’t happen until 2038. Van der Sloot, the main suspect in Holloway’s disappearance in Aruba in 2005, will first have to complete his 28-year prison sentence in Peru for killing a 21-year-old woman there in 2010, The Associated Press reports....

Millionaire housing developer Bob Ward was found guilty of killing his wife on Saturday by a jury in Florida. Ward was convicted of second-degree murder in the September 2009 shooting of his wife, Diane. Diane was shot days before she was set to testify in a deposition that her husband spent millions of dollars on expensive cars and houses as his business failed. Ward had been facing a lawsuit, and his company had filed for bankruptcy....

California’s Supreme Court just ruled that defendants charged with DUI crimes can challenge the reliability of breathalyzer tests. The ruling is a helpful hiccup for Californians and visitors charged with driving under the influence. Breath-testing machines a/k/a ‘breathalyzers’ in California incorporate a “partition ratio” of 2,100 to 1 when measuring a person’s breath for intoxication. The machines convert a person’s breath sample to a blood-alcohol content (‘BAC’) percentage to determine if it is 0....

An OxyElite Pro recall is underway after the supplement was linked to an outbreak of liver illnesses, including one death. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made this announcement Sunday, USA Today reports. OxyElite Pro products are typically used as weight-loss supplements. Capsule and powder versions of the product are affected by the recall. The OxyElite Recall This OxyElite Pro recall comes on the heels of an investigation that linked cases of liver failure and hepatitis to the product....

Phone card fraud is a rampant problem in the industry, as evidenced by a new Consumer Reports study. Approximately 75% of prepaid phone cards the organization purchased didn’t even disclose calling rates. Some used “units” and others doubled the per-minute cost after the first call. Prepaid phone cards are popular in low-income, minority and immigrant communities, according to the Federal Communication Commission. Users see them as a cheap way to call relatives abroad....

An Arlington, Texas man carving a Halloween pumpkin with his daughter stabbed an intruder on Tuesday, unwittingly ending a two-hour, carjacking crime spree. After catching the man rifling through his wife’s purse, Scott Hackney stabbed him in his back with a pumpkin carving knife. Hackney held the man down while a neighbor summoned police, and the home intruder received treatment at a local hospital before heading to jail. A Night of Crime The suspect began his crime spree at the Jet Express on Little Road, according to WFAA....

If you bought Reebok toning shoes, you may be getting some of your money back. Reebok is now paying refunds over the toning shoes after settling with the FTC for “deceptive advertising.” The settlement is a whopping $25 million. Reebok’s EasyTone walking shoes and RunTone shoes cost between $80-100 a pair. EasyTone flip flops set consumers back $60. Reebok claimed the shoes had special technology that strengthens muscles while walking. The company even cited statistics to back up the shoe’s health claims....