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Dr. Conrad Murray’s medical license has been restricted from administering the drug Propofol in California and Texas. The doctor, already been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the King of Pop’s death, will not be able to use or administer propofol – the same drug authorities say was responsible for killing Michael Jackson, the Associated Press reports. Murray has acknowledged administering propofol to Jackson. Propofol is an anesthetic used to render patients unconscious before major surgery....

Never say never Beliebers, but for now it seems that the Justin Bieber murder-castration plot has been foiled and the pop icon is safe. Police announced Thursday that they’d uncovered a plot to kidnap Bieber, castrate him, and murder him. Luckily, or unluckily depending on your personal view of Bieber and his music, the bizarre plot ended almost before it started. Mark Aaron Staake and his nephew Tanner Ruane were arrested for plotting to kill Bieber....

The death of Georgia teen Kendrick Johnson is now the subject of a federal investigation, as a federal prosecutor announced Thursday that he is reopening the case. U.S. Attorney Michael Moore – no relation to the documentarian – stated he would conduct a “formal review” of the teen’s death, CBS News reports. Johnson was found dead in January inside a rolled-up gym mat at his high school in Valdosta, Georgia....

FindLaw learned that four of the North Carolina terror suspects indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday had previously been arrested by the Raleigh Police Department on charges ranging from intoxication and assaulting a member of the Wake County Sheriff’s Office to assaulting a woman. Daniel Patrick Boyd and his brother were reportedly convicted in 1991 for trying to rob a bank in Pakistan in 1991. A Pakistani court sentenced Body to a Sharia-like punishment under Islamic law for his offense: having one of his feet and one of his hand’s cut off....

Prison officials in Dona Ana County forgot about Stephen Slevin. They tossed him in a New Mexico jail cell and paid him little attention for two years. During those two years, his mental health would deteriorate. He would receive little to no psychiatric treatment. He would have to pull his own tooth. This all happened after Slevin was picked up for driving while intoxicated. He was never convicted. Though a jury has awarded Stephen Slevin $22 million, county officials are still not answering questions about why he never had a trial....

The “Octomom’s” house is going into foreclosure, after Nadya Suleman’s Southern California property failed to get any bids at auction. Suleman, the single mother of 14 children, moved into the four-bedroom, three-bath house in the Los Angeles suburb of La Habra in 2009, shortly after she famously gave birth to octuplets, the Associated Press reports. Suleman didn’t qualify for a bank loan to pay for the house, so her father had to chip in....

Two girls were arrested for making online threats against the teenage Ohio rape victim. Just one day after two Steubenville high school football players were convicted of raping the 16-year-old victim, two girls were arrested on suspicion of making social media threats against the accuser, reports The Associated Press. The real-life mean girls, ages 15 and 16, were said to have posted threatening messages on Facebook and Twitter against the victim....

Glenn Chin, the pharmacist convicted for his role in the 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people and sickened hundreds more, has been sentenced to 8 years in prison. Even though this may sound like a long time, Chin should consider himself lucky. He was being prosecuted for mail fraud, racketeering, and second-degree murder. Not-So-Clean Clean Rooms The mold-tainted steroid injections that caused meningitis were produced by the New England Compounding Center, and Chin ran the “clean rooms” where the drugs were made....

Maybe it’s not all that surprising that a lawsuit involving a virtual reality company called Magic Leap, known in in venture capital circles as a “unicorn,” would involve some discussion of wizards. But the claims made in the lawsuit are very real. A unicorn is defined as “a startup company valued at more than $1 billion even though it has yet to bring a product on the market.” A wizard is defined as “a man who has magical powers....

California-based True Leaf Farms has voluntarily recalled its romaine lettuce over Listeria concerns. This move comes after the widely-publicized cantaloupe recall. The listeria-tainted cantaloupe has sickened 84 people in 18 states with Listeria infections. It has killed as many as 16. The recalled romaine lettuce was shipped out between September 12 and 13. The greens were sent to distributors in 21 states and Canada. The affected produce has a use-date of September 29....

The Sixth Amendment guarantees your right to an attorney. That sounds all well and good but we all know there’s no such thing as a free lunch. There has to be a catch somewhere, right? Well, not really. The Sixth Amendment only provides the right to an attorney at a criminal prosecution so in a civil suit it won’t help you out much. But civil suits result in fines which, while possibly challenging to pay off, won’t take away your freedom....

Country music star Tim McGraw’s court battle with Curb Records has gotten ugly. A court hearing will be held on November 29 to determine whether or not McGraw can record new songs while his contract dispute with the recording label remains unsettled. The contract dispute started when McGraw recorded a new album shortly after his 2009 CD “Southern Voice.” Curb filed suit in May, saying that the country music star had violated his contract....

Will Casey Anthony testify? Should she? Those who think that Casey Anthony should testify point to opening remarks made by defense attorney Jose Baez in which he asserted that Anthony was the victim of sexual abuse and that her father helped her cover up Caylee’s drowning death. Casey is the only one willing to testify to these assertions. Even so, there are plenty of reasons Casey Anthony should stay off the stand, including the following three....

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual list of the Top 15 causes of death in the United States has a surprise this year: For the first time since 1965, it doesn’t include murder. Though some might be inclined to blame pneumonitis for the lack of inclusion, the fact is that the U.S. murder rate is at its lowest since 1962. Crime statistics covering the year 2010 show that there were only 5....

The Ponzi scheme was named after Charles Ponzi, who became notorious for using the fraudulent investment technique in the early 1900s. The recent arrest of Bernard Madoff shows that the Ponzi scheme is alive and well. A Ponzi scheme is a sham investment operation. Although there are countless variations of fraudulent investment operations, the basic Ponzi scheme involves paying investors very high returns from of the deposits of subsequent investors, instead of paying them from the profit of a legitimate business....

Have your kids been pestering you more than usual for a new set of Legos or for some McDonald’s chicken nuggets? The YouTube Kids app you downloaded onto your phone or tablet may be the culprit. A collection of children’s advocacy organizations recently complained to the Federal Trade Commission that Google’s new app deceptively exposes children to too much advertising. YouTube Kids YouTube Kids is an app that provides educational videos and child-oriented shows....

The Springfield Mafia has found itself at the center of a lot of questionable enterprises: Murdering Principal Skinner (though it turns out he was just trapped in his garage under a pile of newspapers for a week), forcibly ousting Marge’s competition when she opened a pretzel business, and selling rat milk to Springfield Elementary. Now, though, “Louie,” one of the henchmen – excuse me, members – of Springfield’s Legitimate Businessman’s Social Club, is at the center of a real-world legal battle that has little to do with the perfect Manhattan....

An Alabama law that effectively acted as a gay-sex ban has been struck down by a state appeals court. Responding to a criminal appeal by Dewayne Williams, a man who was charged with sexual misconduct for allegedly having consensual sex with another man, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals struck down the statute and threw out Williams’ conviction, reports USA Today. Alabama is one of a dozen states with gay-sex bans still on the books....

His Playgirl magazine shoot, pistachio commercials and other media deals are among Levi Johnston’s many moneymakers. But exactly how much cash is the father to former Gov. Sarah Palin’s grandchild raking in these days? His ex-fiancé Bristol Palin wants to know and is seeking his financial info. According to the Associated Press, her lawyer is seeking permission to subpoena media outlets to determine how much he has made in order to calculate an appropriate level of child support....

Charlie Sheen’s announcement that he is HIV-positive is cause for concern, according to his former Two and a Half Men co-star, Jenny McCarthy. She played his love interest on the television sitcom and complained on her SiriusXM radio show today that Sheen failed to make the necessary disclosures, USA Today reported. Sheen’s manager responded to the allegations in a statement to People magazine, saying that the actor contracted HIV long after he was on the show....