Jessica Chasmar

Edie Falco: ‘The love between Tony and Carmela was one of the greatest I’ve ever known’

Edie Falco, the Emmy Award-winning actress who played Tony Soprano's wife in HBO's "The Sopranos," is "shocked and devastated" to hear about the passing of her 51-year-old TV husband.

June 20, 2013

Panhandlers stab woman to death on ‘Walk of Fame’ for refusing to pay $1 for photo

Three panhandlers were arrested Wednesday night after reportedly stabbing a 23-year-old woman to death on Hollywood's star-lined "Walk of Fame" after she refused to pay them a dollar for taking a photo of one of their signs.

June 20, 2013

Fish tale: Minn. man gets week in jail, 4 years’ probation for cheating in angling tourney

A Minnesota fisherman was ordered Monday to serve seven days jail and four year on probation after he was caught using previously caught fish in a popular Feb. 2 fishing tournament.

June 20, 2013

Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants to run for governor, but not against Jerry Brown

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in an interview this week that there is no doubt he will run for governor, as long as it's not against fellow Democrat Jerry Brown.

June 20, 2013

Lincoln could fix it: Ariz. professor compares climate change to slavery

A geoscience professor and co-director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona stated Wednesday that President Abraham Lincoln would have taken action to stop climate change, since it's the "moral issue of our time."

June 20, 2013

Ex-gay Christian ministry closes, apologizes to LGBT community

Exodus International, a large Christian ministry that claimed to offer a "cure" for homosexuality, announced on its website Wednesday that it was shutting down and apologized to the gay community "for years of undue suffering and judgment at the hands of the organization and the Church as a whole."

June 20, 2013

Dutch consider euthanasia for children to relieve ‘suffering for the parents’

Two Dutch countries that have pioneered legalized euthanasia are trying to take it one step further — mercy killings for ill children.

June 20, 2013

New Jersey bans trash-talking in school sports

The days of trash-talking on the field are now over for New Jersey's young athletes, after officials on Wednesday announced it has banned harassment in sports.

June 20, 2013

Man arrested for threatening to murder Sen. Ted Cruz, ‘blow up’ the sun

A Houston man was arrested Tuesday after threatening to kidnap, murder and burn U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and his father and also "blow up" the sun if he wasn't paid a $3 million ransom, CBS Houston reported.

June 20, 2013

Somali militants live-tweet deadly attack on U.N. compound

Somali militant group al-Shabaab launched a deadly strike on Wednesday against a U.N. humanitarian compound in Mogadishu that killed one international staffer, three contractors, four Somali security guards, and at least four civilians, Foreign Policy first reported.

June 20, 2013

Hagel asks Indian professor if he’s member of the Taliban

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was apparently joking when he asked an Indian questioner at the University of Nebraska Wednesday whether he was a member of the Taliban.

June 20, 2013

Bystanders clash after finding ‘jihad’ scrawled on I-95 wall

Thousands of drivers traveling northbound on 1-95 in Delray Beach, Fla., saw an unexpected message during their daily commute — the word "Jihad" scrawled in 20-foot letters with black spray paint.

June 20, 2013

‘Sopranos’ star James Gandolfini dead at 51

James Gandolfini, the award-winning actor who played mob boss Tony Soprano in HBO's hit series "The Sopranos," has died following a massive heart attack in Italy, HBO announced Wednesday. He was 51.

June 19, 2013

N.J. treason? Students boo Chris Christie after Dallas Cowboys confession

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie received a mix of cheers and boos on Tuesday when he told a group of elementary school kids in Parlin, N.J., that he's a Dallas Cowboys fan, CNN reported today.

June 19, 2013

Top-selling author Vince Flynn dies at 47 after prostate cancer battle

Best-selling author Vince Flynn, who sold more than 15 million books in the U.S. alone, died Wednesday in Minnesota after two years battling prostate cancer, according to his publisher. He was 47.

June 19, 2013

Bloomberg group regrets naming Tamerlan Tsarnaev a gun violence victim

The organizers of Michael Bloomberg's gun control group has issued an apology for naming Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a victim of gun violence during a demonstration in Concord, N.H., on Tuesday.

June 19, 2013

‘Use me’: IMF chief’s ‘pledge of allegiance’ to ex-president Sarkozy baffles French

A handwritten letter leaked to the French press that International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde wrote to former President Nicolas Sarkozy has baffled the French, raising further suspicions over fraud at the highest levels of government, AFP reported Tuesday.

June 19, 2013

San Fernando Valley school named after Michelle Obama

School board members voted unanimously on Tuesday to rename a year-old San Fernando Valley elementary school after Michelle Obama.

June 19, 2013

Noam Chomsky: Obama is ‘dedicated to increasing terrorism’

Author Noam Chomsky blasted the Obama administration in an interview on Tuesday, charging that President Obama "is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history."

June 19, 2013

Hamas: 100,000 children to train at military camps this summer

It's summer again, and as has become customary in recent years, thousands of Gazan children will flock to terrorist-organized summer camps to engage in semimilitary training, including the use of live ammunition and simulated kidnappings of Israeli soldiers, Ynet reported Tuesday.

June 19, 2013