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The Michael Jackson wrongful death trial in Los Angeles concluded its third week of testimony on Friday, and a cache of emails surfaced over the weekend that could provide new insight on the influence the singer’s concert promoters exercised over his life. Attorneys for the Jackson family are arguing that promoter AEG Live owes them billions because the group pressured Michael to perform at the expense of his health, ultimately leading to his death. Last week two choreographers told the …

A jury awarded $8.8 million to the family of a man shot three times and killed by police while getting out of his car. Police in Culver City, Calif., pulled over 27-year-old Lejoy Grissom in a parking lot in the middle of the day on April 25, 2010, because they suspected he had robbed a nearby electronics store. Four more officers and a supervisor arrived as back-up and drew their guns as they ordered Grissom out of the car. Moments …

The trial over Michael Jackson’s alleged wrongful death continued last week with the testimony of his stylist, stating the pop star was in danger. Plus, a Neverland visitor is changing his tune of molestation accusations. The trial in a Los Angeles courtroom centers on allegations by Michael Jackson’s family that concert promoter AEG Live is responsible for the actions of the doctor who fatally overdosed the pop star with an anesthetic.   ‘Whatever It Takes’ The plaintiffs’ witness testimony so …

A $32.8 million verdict has been upheld against Cooper Tire for making and selling a defective tire that caused the driver of a van full of refugees to lose control near Bondurant, Iowa, and overturn several times, killing one woman and paralyzing another. Alfred Lang was driving a van carrying six passengers. The seven were refugees from Sudan who were sponsored by church organizations to immigrate here and were carpooling to work at a meatpacking plant in nearby Marshalltown. The left …

The first week of the wrongful death trial for pop sensation Michael Jackson wrapped up after testimony from a paramedic and a police detective that centered on the singer’s drug addiction and his doctor’s financial debts. Members of Jackson’s family are seeking billions from concert promoter AEG Live for failing to properly supervise his personal doctor, Conrad Murray. Jackson died from a heart attack in 2009 after overdosing on propofol, an anesthetic drug he used to help him go to sleep …