via:cnn   Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, Yolanda Adams and Jennifer Holliday will be among those performing at Aretha Franklin’s funeral, a source with knowledge of the planning tells CNN. The funeral is set to take place on August 31 at 10 a.m. ET at Greater ...

    LAS VEGAS — Authorities say former Disney star Orlando Brown has pleaded no contest in Las Vegas to reduced charges in two criminal cases and remains jailed pending trial in a misdemeanor domestic battery case. Defense Attorney Yi Lin Zheng said Friday the ...

  A 25-year-old woman who was a witness to a fatal shooting in Towson — according to an attorney involved in the case — was shot multiple times and killed Thursday night in Overlea. Baltimore County police say Tracey Elizabeth Carrington, of Essex, and a friend were ...

via: Thenewyorktimes   Burt Reynolds, the wryly appealing Hollywood heartthrob who carried on a long love affair with moviegoers even though his performances were often more memorable than the films that contained them, died on Thursday in Jupiter, Fla. He was 82. A ...

  A 14-year-old is charged as an adult in the death of an 83-year-old woman last month, Baltimore police announced Friday. Police allege that Tyrone Harvin, of the 2400 block of Winchester St., raped Dorothy Mae Neal and then physically assaulted her. She later died as ...

via:LasVegasJournal   Robin Leach, a celebrity columnist and television host who famously signed off each episode of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” with his signature catchphrase of “Champagne wishes and caviar dreams,” has died. “Despite the past 10 months, what a

  Baltimore police say the deadly abduction of a Baltimore woman was not a random act. Investigators believe Tiffany Jones may have been acquainted with her abductors and may have been targeted by them. Loved ones gathered Thursday evening at a burned out vacant home ...

    Five people were injured in Baltimore shootings within five hours Thursday, as the city saw a burst of violence for the second day in a row. It began with a shooting around rush hour in the northeast Ednor Gardens area. A 26-year-old man was found shot at 5:26 ...