"Pulp Fiction" writer charged after fatal crash
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Oscar-winning "Pulp Fiction" screenwriter Roger Avary was arrested on Sunday after a fatal car crash northwest of Los Angeles, officials said.
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The California Highway Patrol recommended Monday that actress-singer Brandy be charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in a freeway crash that killed a woman motorist last month, a city attorney's spokesman told The Associated Press.
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A man arrested on charges he helped kill a 3-year-old girl more than three decades ago told authorities he buried the body in California before the family abruptly moved out of state, a detective said Tuesday.
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Oscar-winning "Pulp Fiction" screenwriter Roger Avary has sued Microsoft Corp. in California, accusing the software giant of stealing his idea for a virtual yoga studio after it had sought his advice about winning over women to video games, his attorney said on Tuesday.
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Actor Daniel Baldwin was  hospitalized with back and neck injuries and faced charges  including reckless driving on Wednesday after crashing his car  on a busy Los Angeles street, police said.
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Action-novel hero Dirk Pitt has overcome myriad obstacles on his way to finding buried treasures and shipwrecks but his career and that of his creator -- novelist Clive Cussler -- was nearly destroyed by a bad script, a court was told on Friday.
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A suicidal California man could  face the death penalty for triggering a rail crash that killed  11 people, authorities said on Thursday, and they described a  possible copycat attempt by another depressed driver.
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LOS ANGELES Music producer Phil Spector was charged with murder today,with the special allegation of using a firearm, in the 2003 death of actress Lana Clarkson at Spector&#39;s mansion in Alhambra.
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Crash victim dies:  An Antioch man already charged with two counts of aggravated driving under the influence could face more charges now that a woman has died as a result of injuries from a car crash Jan. 14.
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An AIDS activist and city health department employee was charged with murdering a cabdriver by running him over with his own taxi during an argument.
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Police investigating the death of a Hell&#39;s Angel member who was shot dead on a busy motorway as he returned home from an annual biker&#39;s event have charged three men with murder, they said.
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Roger Avary, who won an Academy Award as the co-writer of âPulp Fictionâ with Quentin Tarantino, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and driving under the influence after a single-car collision that injured his wife and killed a man on Sunday in Ojai, Calif., The Associated Press reported. The dead man was identified as Andreas Zini, 34, believed to be a visitor from Italy. Mr. Avaryâs wife, Gretchen, 40, was ejected from the car and hospitalized in stable condition. Mr. Avary, 42, who was also a co-writer of âBeowulf,â was released on $50,000 bail.
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Actor Lane Garrison, who played an inmate on the hit TV show "Prison Break," was charged on Thursday with vehicular manslaughter in a car crash that killed a 17-year-old boy and injured two girls.
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University of Illinois basketball player Jamar Smith &#151; charged Tuesday with drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident &#151; apparently believed the teammate in the passenger seat of his car had died, authorities said.
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Actor Ray Liotta was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after crashing his car into two parked vehicles in Pacific Palisades, authorities said.
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Illinois State Police asked a prosecutor to charge one of its troopers with reckless homicide in a crash that killed two teenage sisters after he lost control of his cruiser at 126 mph.
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A graduate student charged in the car crash that killed Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam was sentenced Thursday to five days in jail, but a judge recommended he serve the time on a supervised work program.