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There’s a side of abortions and miscarriages that is often forgotten: the body of the fetus. In February 2017, a Texas law went into effect that required health care providers to bury or cremate fetuses, regardless of a patient’s wishes or religious beliefs. That law had been put on hold after local abortion clinics filed for, and received, a temporary injunction in federal court. Prior to 2017, fetuses were disposed of as pathological waste, similar to any other tissue....

You might recognize Frank Sivero from such films as “Goodfellas” and “The Godfather Part II.” But what about “The Simpsons”? Sivero apparently recognized himself in a semi-recurring character on Fox’s animated television series “The Simpsons.” Sivero has filed a $250 million lawsuit against Fox claiming that the character Louie, who has appeared in 16 episodes of the long-running hit show, is based on the character Sivero “developed and played” in the 1990 mob film “Goodfellas....

The two suspects in the San Diego-area “Gumby robbery,” Jacob Kiss and Jason Giramma, turned themselves in on Tuesday. Kiss and Giramma admitted to masterminding the strange “Gumby” robbery that occurred at a local 7-11 last week. A video surveillance tape captured the entire event on film, reports Sign on San Diego. The tapes showed two men entering the convenience store. One was dressed normally; the other was wearing a full-on green “Gumby” bodysuit....

Wish you could take a look at a J. Lo sex tape? Well, don’t hold your breath. Lopez has scored a court ruling against Ojani Noa, her ex-husband, barring him and his manager Ed Meyer from making money off of footage of Lopez. Noa and his current girlfriend, Claudia Vasquez, had been planning on putting together a comedic biopic about Noa and his life, reports E! Online. Vasquez, who owns the tape after buying it off her boyfriend, has been blocked from distributing it, according to celebrity gossip source TMZ....

The death of comedian Joan Rivers may provide an unwelcome, but much-needed warning to many that medical emergencies can strike at any time. This can leave family members and medical personnel to make difficult decisions regarding end-of-life care. Rivers, 81, suffered cardiac and respiratory arrest while undergoing surgery last week. She was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support. But after more than a week, her daughter Melissa made the decision to remove her mother from life support, reports the New York Daily News....

Fans of so-called ‘buddy films’ won’t be disappointed this weekend–a federal judge has denied a request by the plaintiff in the Hangover 2 lawsuit to prevent the long-awaited sequel’s release. Though the show can go on, the judge did indicate that, should the lawsuit make it through to trial, Mike Tyson tattoo creator S. Victor Whitmill is likely to win, allowing him to stomp on your ability to own the film on DVD....

Rickie La Touche, 30, strangled his wife over Star Wars memorabilia. He says that she damaged some items from his Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker collection. The man, also known as Rickie Nehls, had been collecting since he was a child. La Touche told police that the killing occurred after he snapped. He says his wife, Pornpilai Srisroy, has made his life “hell.” He claims she hit him with a pool cue, and threatened to “cut him up and eat him” in the past....

The security chief of Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine, Hughie Elert Stover, was arrested Monday and charged with lying to the FBI and obstructing the investigation of the Virginia mine explosion last year that killed 29 miners, according to The Washington Post. These are the first criminal charges stemming from the mine explosion. A federal grand jury in West Virginia indicted Hughie Stover last week after investigators kept running into obstacles....

Actors Eric Dane (known infamously as McSteamy from the ABC show Grey’s Anatomy) and Rebecca Gayheart (the Noxzema girl from the 1990s) lost the right to statutory damages for copyright infringement over the infamous McSteamy video that features both of them in a threesome situation with Kari Ann Peniche. However, there is no sex in the clip. Just a lot of ahem, anatomy. According to Mediapost, the couple filed lawsuit in federal court because Gawker posted a clip of them “partially and sometimes fully disrobed”....

The nation’s second largest money transfer service, MoneyGram International agreed to pay $18 million dollars to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that MoneyGram allowed its system to be used by scam artists. The FTC alleged that MoneyGram not only did too little to watch out for fraud, but that it punished whistle-blowers and turned a blind eye to the fact that MoneyGram employees were actually participating in some of the schemes....

Consumers who receive prerecorded telemarketing calls (or “robocalls”) must be given the chance to opt out of future calls from the soliciting business or charity, under a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule that took affect Monday. According to Monday’s announcement from the FTC, “Prerecorded telemarketing messages are permitted only in limited circumstances – only when the caller has an established business relationship with the consumer being called.” Now, consumers must also be offered a “quick and easy way to opt-out of receiving future calls,” whether the “robocall” is answered by a person or by an answering machine....

Even with the cool wind in their hair, the iconic classic rock band, the Eagles, has filed a lawsuit against a Mexican hotel due to pretending to be the very same Hotel California that the famous rock group sang about in their popular song, Witchy Woman. However, what a nice surprise it was that the hotel policies that prohibit ever checking out and wine (at least since 1969), weren’t the basis of the lawsuit....

SeaWorld shows may soon get a lot less exciting. A federal judge has ordered SeaWorld to enact safety measures to protect SeaWorld trainers. Administrative Law Judge Ken Welsch upheld violations cited by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration against SeaWorld, Reuters reports. The case came after the death of Dawn Brancheau, a trainer who was killed by a killer whale during an Orlando SeaWorld show. So what kind of protections could be coming down the pike?...

A yoga instructor by the name of Ms. Vartika Dubey won a judgment worth $1.2 million dollars because her storage rental in Public Storage Inc. had a mix up that led to her loss of her property in an auction. The Wall Street Journal reports that the state appeals court found that Public Storage Inc. violated the state’s Consumer Fraud Act when it wrongfully took Ms. Dubey’s possessions and sold them in an auction in 2003....

A Colorado study found that children and young adults with cancer were more likely to live near an oil and gas well. The study looked at hundreds of cases and discovered that subjects aged 5 to 24 with acute lymphocytic leukemia were over four times as likely to live among the highest concentrations of oil and gas wells. At this point the findings indicate a correlation between well proximity and certain cancer rates rather than causation between them, and conclude “further study is clearly needed to substantiate both our positive and negative findings....

Eight people were found dead in the back of a tractor trailer parked at a San Antonio Walmart last weekend, and two more died after being hospitalized. Now the driver of the truck is being charged with illegally transporting immigrants, a crime that, due to the fatalities involved, could earn him a life sentence or even the death penalty. Almost 40 other passengers had to be treated for heat-related illnesses or injury at local hospitals after approximately 12 hours in the un-air conditioned, unventilated trailer....

There’s no question that Facebook identity theft exists, but according to an appellate court in California, a teen boy committed a crime when he accessed a girl’s account and added sexual remarks to her profile. Despite not having used the password or account to commit fraud or any other crime typically associated with identify theft, the boy, who is known only as Rolando, was sentenced to 90 days to a year in a juvenile facility, which is to be followed by probation....

What happens if you refuse a DUI breath test? Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar might have an answer for you, after he refused to take a breath test during a recent traffic stop. Kosar was pulled over last month for suspicion of OVI – operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, Ohio’s version of a DUI. But when asked to take a breath test, he refused, saying that he’d always been advised never to take one, Cleveland....

Victims set to testify against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky were treated to quite the surprise Tuesday morning. Before testimony could begin, defense attorney Joe Amendola announced that Sandusky had chosen to waive his preliminary hearing. There are a lot of questions about what this means for the Sandusky case, which involves more than 50 counts of sexual abuse. There are two essential legal terms to this explanation: arraignment and preliminary hearing....

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino pleaded guilty to tax evasion and was sentenced to eight months in federal prison, forced to perform 500 hours of community service, and fined $10,000. The “Jersey Shores” star evaded as much as $1.5 million in taxes for failing to report around $9 million earned from public promotional appearances as well as non-monetary earnings, such as luxury cars, clothing, and other business swag. Sorrentino went to great lengths to evade taxes, primarily through the use of setting up a shell company, Situation Nation....