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A Texas court on Friday slashed a $50 million judgment that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre over his false claims that one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history was a hoax.

Hayden Panettiere’s ex-fiancé and father of their daughter, Wladimir Klitschko, has paid a touching tribute to the actor on what would’ve been her 37th birthday.

Former University of Kentucky student-athlete Laken Snelling pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of her infant son, whose body was found inside a trash bag in a closet.

A Pennsylvania teenager fatally stabbed his girlfriend, a college soccer player, then enlisted his mother’s help to clean up the crime scene and move the victim’s body, police said Thursday.

Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.

The Texas prosecutor who oversaw Karmelo Anthony’s conviction in a deadly stabbing at a high school track meet said Thursday that both sides had agreed to hold back evidence that risked further inflaming a case already boiling with racial tensions and death threats.

Jurors on Thursday heard Duane “Keffe D” Davis tell detectives in 2008 that his nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson fired the shots that killed Tupac Shakur.

The plane took off from Anchorage and is believed to have crashed early Thursday afternoon on approach to Cape Newenham, an NTSB official said.

Neutrogena responded Thursday to mounting backlash over its alleged treatment of its former ambassador Hayden Panettiere, saying on an Instagram post that the company understands it “made her feel unsupported during a very difficult time.”

The helicopter crash off Mount Ololokwe in Kenya killed six friends with deep ties to media, food, fashion and culture in Miami.