Los Angeles is a city of entertainment and a metropolis with Hollywood stars and professional athletes, but it is also full of various social problems. Guns are rampant, drugs are everywhere, and many people are on the road of no return because of drug addiction. Yu Jiashan, a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner in Ventura…

VENTURA, Calif.—A California judge found Monday that there is enough evidence against a man once briefly married to Britney Spears who showed up uninvited at the pop star’s wedding to go to trial on a felony stalking charge. After a two-hour preliminary hearing, Ventura County Judge David Worley ruled that 40-year-old Jason Allen Alexander should…

By Joseph Wilkinson From New York Daily News There will be no Father’s Day reconciliation in the Spears family. Jamie Spears has filed legal documents demanding his daughter Britney sit for a deposition in the ongoing court battle surrounding her terminated conservatorship. Jamie, 69, wants Britney questioned under oath about several things, TMZ reported. He…

By Kenan Draughorne From Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES—Britney Spears has secured a restraining order against her ex-husband, Jason Alexander, after he attempted to crash her wedding in Thousand Oaks last week. A judge ruled during an arraignment Monday that Alexander can’t contact or disturb his ex-wife for at least the next three years. He…

Britney Spears has landed a multi-million-dollar book deal for a tell-all memoir about her relationship with her family, living under a conservatorship for more than a decade, and her rise to stardom. The pop star, 40, signed the landmark deal with publisher Simon & Schuster, with the contract valued at more than $15 million, sources…

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Dec. 8. ruled that Britney Spears can now sign her own estate paperwork and manage her finances for the first time in nearly 14 years. The ruling by Judge Brenda J. Penny hands Spears back the rights to handle her own cash and property and means that the singer “has the…

Singer Britney Spears addressed her fans directly for the first time since a judge ended the controversial conservatorship that allegedly controlled her money for the past decade, claiming some members of her family should be “in jail.” “I do know how embarrassing is to share the fact I’ve never seen cash or wasn’t able to…

Commentary I’ve been thinking a lot about the phrase “media circus” lately. I’ve heard it applied to all sorts of crime-related stories I’ve covered during my decades as a reporter. Lately, the expression cropped up during the near wall-to-wall coverage of the Gabby Petito missing person/homicide case. I also heard it applied recently to the…

Britney Spears has secured her freedom after a judge granted approval to terminate the conservatorship that has largely controlled the American pop superstar’s medical, financial, and personal decisions for nearly 14 years. At a hearing in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on Friday, Judge Brenda Penny dissolved the legal arrangement in a widely expected move….

Britney Spears has secured her freedom after a judge granted approval to terminate the conservatorship that has largely controlled the American pop superstar’s medical, financial, and personal decisions for nearly 14 years. At a hearing in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on Friday, Judge Brenda Penny dissolved the legal arrangement in a widely expected move….