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The white flag may be going up soon for Michael Jackson’s physician, who is negotiating his surrender to authorities, his attorney said. In the next day, Dr. Conrad Murray is expected to be charged in connection with the pop singer’s death but there has been no agreement on the specifics of his surrender yet, the Associated Press reports. Law enforcement officials have said that prosecutors plan to charge Murray with involuntary manslaughter....

Notorious pharmaceutical price manipulator Martin Shkreli and co-conspiring corporate attorney Even Greebel were arrested in New York this morning on federal securities fraud charges. Shkreli gained worldwide infamy when his current pharmaceutical company jacked up the prices of life-saving AIDS medication by some 5,000 percent. The grand jury indictment, which you can read below, accuses Shkreli of using a former company he owned as a personal piggy bank to repay debts from other business ventures....

A Virginia mom who took a photo of her 1-year-old son hanging by the shirt from a planter hook was arrested after the photo was posted to Facebook. The photo shows a 14-month-old boy crying while suspended in mid-air with his shirt bunched around his neck. The boy’s mother, 18-year-old Alexis Breeden was arrested and charged with felony child abuse after authorities were alerted to the photo’s presence on the social network, reports WTVR-TV....

Retailer Meijer, Inc., has announced an infant slipper socks recall. The recall applies to about 17,400 pairs of slipper socks, sized 0-12 months, and goes into effect immediately, reports the Sacramento Bee. The recall affects slipper socks sold under the Falls Creek brand. Styles affected carry the names Bumble Bee and Lady Bug, reports the Bee. Meijer, Inc., a retailer headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich., described the defect as involving the balls at the end of the bug antennae mounted on each slipper....

Ja Rule has been released from an upstate New York prison. However, the rapper may not be celebrating his release just yet, as he is heading straight into federal custody. The platinum-selling rapper had served most of his two-year sentence at the Mid-State Correctional Facility for an illegal gun possession charge. However, he still has some time remaining on a 28-month prison sentence stemming from a federal tax evasion charge, reports CBS News....

A North Carolina appeals court has ordered Jayceon Taylor, better known as The Game, to pay $5 million to 5 Greensboro police officers who accused the rapper of defamation. The Game lawsuit, originally filed in 2010, involves footage that appeared in a DVD entitled ‘Stop Snitchin Stop Lyin.’ The DVD included a “heavily edited” film recording taken while the rapper was being arrested for trespassing and disorderly conduct. It was then marketed as containing “the entire footage of [Taylor] being wrongfully arrested and brutalized by the Police in North Carolina....

Eat, Pray, Love, Adopt. It seems like actress Julia Roberts enjoyed shooting her hit film in India so much that she is looking to adopt a baby from the country. Already practicing the primary religion of the country, Hindu, Julia Roberts adopting from India will make it four for the actress. The 42 year-old actress and her husband of eight years, Danny Moder, have three children together – twins, Finn and Hazel, and son, Henry....

Justin Bieber pled guilty to assault and careless driving charges as part of a plea bargain that will see him pay $750 (Canadian) in fines. Charges of dangerous driving stemming from and ATV accident last year were dropped. So did The Biebs get off light? While the fine won’t put a dent in his $200 million pockets, was it normal for these charges? Let’s take a look: Assault in Alberta Under Canadian law, assault is applying force intentionally to another person, directly or indirectly, without his or her consent, and is punishable by up to five years in jail....

Lindsay Lohan told Jay Leno Tuesday that her repeated encounters with the law have been the result of her youth and finding fame at the age of 11. At 24, she contends that focus is now the key to her success. One can only hope that she puts that theory to the test as she gets ready to star in her newest role, a real-life drama dubbed Lindsay Lohan: Morgue Edition....

The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooter’s ex-girlfriend, Misty Cook, was arrested on a gun charge during a police interview at her home, CBS News reports. But Cook, 31, of Milwaukee, had nothing to do with the shooting that claimed six lives Sunday, police said. The gunman, Wade Michael Page, was shot by police but died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said Wednesday. Page lived with Cook until just a few weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times reports....

Danica Patrick announced her divorce on Tuesday by sending a message to her Facebook followers. The 30-year-old NASCAR driver is ending her seven-year marriage to physical therapist Paul Hospenthal, 47. She said the split is amicable and the two will remain friends, but her method for delivering the message was a little unorthodox. In less than 24 hours, Patrick’s Facebook post got more than 7,000 “likes” on the social network. We’re not sure what that says about Patrick’s fans or her marriage....

A temporary easing of new passport rules for travelers entering the U.S. has expired, meaning that all persons – including U.S. citizens – traveling by air from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda are now required to have a passport in order to enter the United States, in accordance with regulations that went into effect in January 2007 (a second phase of passport requirements will apply to land and sea travelers, beginning as early as January 2008)....

Nicolas Cage continues to face financial problems and more legal woes. The actor was recently hit with a breach of contract lawsuit. Nick Cage is being sued for defaulting on his Rolls Royce Lease payments, the Business Insider reports. Apparently, Nicolas Cage could not afford his payments and returned two vintage Rolls Royce cars. Premier Financial Services leasing company is suing him over breach of contract. A breach of contract can occur by:...

It is never a pleasant thing to hear that your musical heroes have fallen on hard times. And such is the case for Sly Stone, of the 70’s funk band Sly and the Family Stone, who the New York Times reports these days must rely on Social Security to get by. Sly has turned to a tried and true celebrity passtime: suing your business manager. Stone’s complaint details how his former business manager Gerald Goldstien, Goldstien’s long time companion Claire Levine and attorney Glenn Stone, allegedly set up a company to which the rights to the name Sly and the Family Stone were registered....

In a surprising turn of events, Sofia Vergara’s embryos have filed suit against the Modern Family actress in the state of Louisiana. If it comes as a shock to you that an embryo can file suit, you are not alone. Lawyers across the country are all shocked. Even after looking into the legality of it, they find themselves in awe. You see, in Louisiana, the great state that brings us Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras, since the 1980s, embryos have been considered persons for judicial purposes....

In response to last year’s SAT cheating scandal, state Senator Kenneth LaValle has proposed a bill that would make cheating on the SAT a felony in New York. If passed, the SAT cheating bill would formally criminalize the “facilitation of education testing fraud” and “scheming to defraud educational testing.” Such a law would punish students who pay an impersonator and the impersonators themselves. Can New York do this? If you recall, the students involved in the Long Island cheating scandal were charged with a bevy of crimes, including falsifying business records and fraud....

It has not been a good year for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, politically speaking. The laundry list of petty corruption within his office (lavish and illegal spending on offices, residences, supplies, and raises for staff) is so long at this point that CNN has to update it every couple weeks. It also hasn’t been a great year for the EPA, legally speaking. State attorneys general sued the EPA and Pruitt in April, accusing them of ignoring the administration’s duty to control methane emissions....

The U.S. Senate did not approve a $4.6 billion settlement between black farmers and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The settlement, which was based on the 1997 case of Pigford v. Glickman, was first reached in 1999. The case arose when Timothy Pigford, a black farmer from North Carolina, alleged that the USDA discriminated in the way it awarded loans and other aid to farmers. The government earlier paid over $1 billion to approximately 16,000 farmers to settle the case for about $50,000 per farmer....

President Donald Trump’s travel ban has been controversial from the start. The Executive Order, restricting immigrants from majority-Muslim countries, was rewritten twice after several federal courts repeatedly blocked different versions of the ban, citing “significant and unrebutted evidence of religious animus driving the promulgation of the Executive Order” that “plainly discriminates based on nationality.” The Supreme Court, however, removed one of those injunctions against the ban this morning, sending the case back to the Ninth Circuit with some forceful language citing federal immigration law that “exudes deference” to the president and allows him “broad discretion to suspend” the entry of noncitizens into the United States....

Like so many scandals, the John Edwards debacle has more chapters than a Russian novel. In not perfect chronological order came; first, the plain old sex scandal involving Edwards and campaign videographer Rielle Hunter, then the admission of the existence of their child. Next, enter Andrew Young with his tell-all book deal. The sex tape portion of the drama followed soon after, including a court’s requirement that Mr. Young be “assisted” by a security guard when retrieving the tape and any additional portraits of Ms....