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Actress Lena Headey, best known for playing the icy Queen Cersei on “Game of Thrones,” has agreed to use an anti-texting app while driving… as long as her ex-husband does the same. The recently divorced actress was worried that her former husband, Peter Loughran, would be texting or surfing the Internet while driving with their 3-year-old son, reports TMZ. That’s why the anti-texting app requirement was added to her divorce settlement....

Fibbing on a résumé. Distorting a past conflict. Political prevarications! We’ve all been known to be less than truthful at times in our lives, and we hope those little white lies don’t turn into black marks on our reputations. Which lies get told, which get revealed, and which are left to simmer can be a matter of luck so who got lucky this week? Here’s what you need to know from last night’s episode, entitled “Lies....

“The Good Wife” is back! It’s been eight long weeks since a new episode, but the wait is finally over. To start things off with a bang, this week’s episode – entitled “Parallel Construction, Bitches” – dives into a complex wiretapping issue. Without further ado, here’s a breakdown of the episode: In this week’s episode, a saucy surveillance love triangle crops up between Florrick & Agos, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the National Security Agency....

All rape is bad. Raping a person is bad and witnessing a rape and doing nothing makes you a bad person. But witnessing a rape and deciding, “Yeah, I need to livestream this” makes you a bad and dumb person. Raymond Boyd Gates is the bad person who allegedly raped a 17-year-old. Marina Alexeevna Lonina is the bad and dumb person who allegedly livestreamed the rape on Periscope. Fortunately, both bad people are currently in jail and have been indicted for crimes that could keep them there for 40 years....

Fighting a shoplifting charge may cost you time and money, but it could also pay off in the end. An experienced criminal defense attorney can help to get your charges reduced, dropped, or perhaps even removed from your record. A defense attorney will typically try to poke holes in a shoplifting case by challenging the evidence and procedures that led to an alleged shoplifter’s arrest. Here are some ways that can be done:...

With more people out of work, there are more targets for job search scam artists. As those looking for work find themselves in more dire need of new employment, they can be particularly vulnerable to such scams. Here are four scams to watch out for: Work at home schemes. An oldie but a goodie. Does making money hand over fist while sitting at home sound too good to be true? That’s because it is....

First there was the Twinkie defense, and now there’s the antibiotic defense. Bradley Colas, a cop from Virginia Beach, has been charged with two counts of felony assault for stabbing two firefighters and shooting another. The violence happened after the off-duty officer slammed his car into a tree as he drove to Philadelphia. He was on his way to see Jesus and believes rescuers were evil demons out to get him....

The Bank of America overdraft lawsuit has been settled. Your account will be debited $410 million, reports The New York Times. Bank of America announced this week it has obtained a Miami federal court’s preliminary approval of a settlement, in which the bank will pay debit card customers and their attorneys a total of $410 million. The settlement buys Bank of America out of a class action lawsuit, in which about 30 banks face charges of excessive overdraft fees on debit cards, reports the Times....

A woman is accusing Chris Brown of cell phone theft, according to a report filed with the Miami Beach Police. Christal Spann claims the incident happened after she snapped a photo of the singer as he sat in a Bentley outside a local club on Sunday night. Brown allegedly put his hand through the window, snatched the phone from her hand and took off. Not before saying, “B—-, you ain’t gonna put that on no website,” of course....

The U.S. saw a rise in food poisoning cases last year, and the main culprit was salmonella. The latest figures from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that more than 19,000 people in 10 states fell ill after eating contaminated food last year, compared with 17,500 the year before. Salmonella accounted for more than 8,000 of those illnesses and nearly 30 deaths.“Salmonella is the single most important food-borne disease right now,” Dr....

Moments ago in Zurich, FIFA officials voted to retain controversial president Sepp Blatter. Three days ago, nine high-ranking FIFA officials (including the man many thought would succeed Blatter) were arrested along with five media company executives on a wide range of corruption charges that rocked soccer’s governing body. The charges are detailed in an extensive Department of Justice indictment filed in the Eastern District of New York. You can read all 160 pages listing racketeering, bribery, and wire fraud below....

Tragedy still stalks deceased actor Gary Coleman, whose remains do not yet rest in peace. And the tragedy is wrapped in an unresolved legal issue about whether Coleman was married at the time of his death. Coleman’s former manager Vic Perillo has announced that, as the first anniversary of Coleman’s death approaches, Coleman’s parents and estranged wife still dispute the arrangements, reports WENN-TV. Coleman died in Utah at age 42 in May 2010, after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage....

A ground beef recall has been issued by a Kansas meat packing firm, with worries that the meat was contaminated with E.coli. More than 25 tons of ground beef are involved in this limited recall, which affects consumers who bought the potentially tainted product from Winn-Dixie or Bi-Lo supermarkets, among others. The beef was also sold under the brands “National Beef,” “NatureSource,” and “NatureWell,” reports The Christian Science Monitor. Here’s what you need to know about the ground beef recall and how to prevent E....

The largest-ever IRS phone scam is making the rounds. Thousands of victims have been conned out of more than $1 million by fraudsters posing as IRS agents demanding tax payments. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) says it has received more than 20,000 complaints from people, including recent immigrants, about the scam, Reuters reports. How does the massive tax scam work, and what should consumers watch out for?...

Radiation fears have led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban certain milk and food imports from Japan. The FDA has banned imports of dairy products and produce from the area of Japan where a nuclear reactor is leaking radiation, reports MSNBC. On Wednesday a spike in radiation in Tokyo tap water caused new worries about Japan’s food safety. Broccoli was added to the list of contaminated vegetables. Fish, as of now, is allowed but will be first screened for radiation....

Three Miami police officers are probably wishing they had a better sense of humor after their poor attempts got them fired. Because of their bad jokes, the Miami police department is recovering from an embarrassing incident where the three young officers made offensive, racist statements in a text message group chat with other officers. Although it is sadly not uncommon to hear about racism within the ranks of law enforcement, the context of this incident is both alarming and shocking....

Fine print. Yes it is very small and usually seems to be written in a completely different language, but it is that small-sized font at the bottom of a consumer contract that is usually the most important. Take, for example, the recent Netflix price increase. The mail order DVD movie company has increased their monthly fees by $1 a month; but has offered a streaming only plan to customers for the original pricing of $7....

Have you heard about the AOL privacy settlement? Probably not. A group of attorneys–with a few named plaintiffs–sued the company after it began placing banner ads in the bottom of emails. How that violates user privacy, we may never know. The two sides settled for $250,000 in legal fees and $110,000 in damages. And the 66 million AOL users represented in the class action? Before Monday, they were set to get absolutely nothing....

After a Domino’s Pizza delivery man was stabbed and killed earlier this month in Boston after an a robbery setup, a Charlotte employee of Pizza Hut took on the bad guys and won at least a partial victory. Of course, the police prefer when they apprehend the suspect themselves, but this time, the Pizza Hut employee took out two robbers in a blaze of gunfire. The employee shot and killed two robbers, while the third escaped, though he may have been wounded....

Samsung had reason to celebrate this week after a federal judge declared that its infringement of Apple iPhone design and utility patents was not a willful scheme. Still Samsung, the world’s largest device maker, still owes a mammoth fine for violating some Apple intellectual property. But it could have been much worse. U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh ruled Tuesday that she predominantly agreed with the jury’s decision that Samsung infringed on seven of Apple’s design and utility patents....