Felicity Jones Transforms Into a Young Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 'On the Basis of Sex' Trailer

Ruth Bader Ginsburgis heading back to the big screen to prove that it’s not just a man’s world in the upcoming movieOn the Basis of Sex.Focus Features released the historical drama’s first trailer, starringFelicity Jonesas Ginsburg, the bright-eyed young lawyer who makes a splash as the one woman among many men in a sea of lawmakers.This year’s hit documentaryRBGhas already earned itself some Oscar buzz, and now a younger version of the now 85-year-old Supreme Court justice seems poised to enter the race as well....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 470 words · Maria Jones

Fiancée of Reporter Killed in Shooting Is Asking for Help to Have His Child Via IVF: 'Wanted Nothing More'

Photo: twitter The fiancée of a journalist who was fatally shot last month wants to keep his legacy alive. Dylan Lyons, a Spectrum News 13 reporter, was killed on Feb. 22 when a gunman opened fire on him and photojournalist Jesse Walden — who was critically injured — as they sat in their car in the Pine Hills neighborhood of Orlando. The woman who was set to be Dylan’s wife is now asking for help to have his child....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 446 words · Richard Barrett

First Look! Wayne Brady Comes Full-Circle in Broadway-Bound Revival ofThe Wiz: 'This Is the Dream' (Exclusive)

Wayne Brady in ‘The Wiz’.Photo:Jeremy Daniel Jeremy Daniel Wayne Bradyis ready to see you now! The five-time Emmy winner has stepped into the title role of theBroadway-bound musical revival ofThe Wiz,and PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at him in action. Theater-goers can see Brady as the Wiz in the acclaimed musical’s pre-Broadway National Tour, which is now playing through Feb. 11 at Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco. It’ll next come to Los Angeles' Hollywood Pantages Theatre from Feb....

March 16, 2025 · 6 min · 1076 words · Audrey Davis

First Look: TV Icon Diahann Carroll's Personal Memorabilia to Be Sold at Auction

01of 13Paying Tribute to an IconMilton H. Green, 2020 Joshua Green Archive, courtesy BonhamsWhenDiahann Carroll diedat 84 last October, the actress and singer left behind a trail she blazed across six decades in Hollywood. She was the first African American Emmy nominee, back in 1963. She became the first African American woman to star in a non-servant role on televisionand to win the Tony award for Best Actress in a Musical....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 792 words · Brian Aguilar

First Muslim Woman in Pa. House Had to Listen to Prayer for Jesus' Forgiveness: 'That Was Protest'

Photo: PA House “That was protest. That was not an invocation. That was not a prayer,” the representative being sworn in, Movita Johnson-Harrell, tells PEOPLE. “It was a protest to the first Muslim woman coming to the House of Representatives.” “God forgive us, Jesus, we’ve lost sight of you,” she said. “I, Jesus, am your ambassador today,” she said. At the very end of her prayer, Borowicz quoted the Bible: “Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, Jesus, that you are Lord....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 684 words · Michael Simmons

Fla. Man Allegedly Murdered Girlfriend, Then Placed Gun in Her Hand to Make It Look Like Suicide

Chelsea Nandor.Photo: FacebookA man in Florida is accused of murdering his girlfriend and then staging the scene as a suicide.Clinton Pittman, 38, has been charged with homicide, tampering with evidence and two counts of possession of a firearm as a felon, according tothe North Port Police Department.On Tuesday, North Port police responded to a call reporting an attempted suicide. Upon arrival, they found Chelsea Nandor suffering from a gunshot wound to the left side of her head, with a gun in her left hand,WFLA reports....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 811 words · Robert Russell

Flooding in West Virginia Is So Bad a Burning House Floated Down a Creek

West Virginia is in the midst of a rash ofdeadly flooding , and one particularly dystopian video shows what seems to be a burning house float through a creek in the town ofWhite Sulphur Springs . Floodwater push a burning#homedown a creek in#WestVirginia.#wvwx 🎬 Amanda Carperpic.twitter.com/zJSMe95nLk — America ’s Morning Headquarters ( @AMHQ)June 24 , 2016 West Virginia MetroNewsreports that the house was seen floating down Howard ’s Creek on Thursday afternoon ....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 326 words · William Glass

Florida Church Urging Vaccinations After 6 Members — All Unvaccinated — Die of COVID in 10 Days

Pastor Joseph Cooper.Photo: news4 jax/ youtube A Florida church is urging its members to get vaccinated after six parishioners — all of whom were unvaccinated —died of COVID-19in the last ten days. Impact Church in Jacksonville is reeling from the sudden losses, with most of the deaths occurring in younger members. “All were healthy, all had no preexisting conditions. Four of them were under the age of 30, and they were all unvaccinated,” Pastor Joseph Coopertold News4Jax....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 483 words · Brian Blake

Florida Police Chase Ends in 1 Teen Dead, Another Critically Injured

L: Jazmin Keltz; R: The high-speed police chase ended with this Audi crashing.Photo:Gofundme;nbcmiami Gofundme;nbcmiami A 15-year-old boy is dead and a 14-year-old girl critically injured following a Miami-Dade police chase in the early morning hours of Wednesday, according to police. Miami-Dade police officers received a call about a suspicious vehicle around 2 a.m. Wednesday, the department said in its most recent press statement. About that time, the officers saw “a vehicle matching the description” traveling eastbound on SW 56 Street “at a high rate of speed,” according to the news release, which continues: “Officers attempted to approach the vehicle in order to further investigate, at which time the driver lost control of the vehicle, colliding into a concrete pillar....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 275 words · Robert Hill

Florida Residents Warned About Falling Frozen Iguanas as Temperatures Drop in the State

Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group/GettyIt is raining iguanas in the sunshine state.Florida’s recent bout of cold weather is causing stunned iguanas to lose their grip and fall out of trees.On Sunday, temperatures in south Florida dropped to 25 degrees,Reutersreported per the National Weather Service (NWS). The freezing weather shocked the area’s humane and reptile residents.According to the NWS, iguanas are cold-blooded, and theirbodies can go dormantwhen exposed to temperatures less than 45 degrees....

March 16, 2025 · 4 min · 796 words · Kelly Hays DDS

Florida School Pulls Disney's 'Ruby Bridges' After Parent Complains About Historical Civil Rights Film

The biographical drama, which iscurrently streaming on Disney+, tells the story of Bridges, who was “subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the first time” when she was chosen to integrate her local school, according to an official description of the film. Although the film will not be shown to students at the St. Petersburg school while a review of the film is conducted, it has not been removed from all schools....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 388 words · Michael Strong

Florida Sinkhole That Killed Sleeping Man in 2013 Opens for Third Time: 'This Is Mother Nature'

Photo:Todd Pratt/Hillsborough County via AP Todd Pratt/Hillsborough County via AP A sinkhole in Florida has opened for the third time — 10 years after it killed a man while he slept. In a statementposted on its websiteon Monday, Hillsborough County officials said they “were on site” in Seffner, a Tampa suburb, to “determine the extent of the void,” which was a “reopening of a previous sinkhole on the site from 2013....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 303 words · Pamela West

Florida Thieves Use Tractor Trailers to Steal 4,277 Cases of Alcohol Worth Over $1.6M

Republic National Distributing Company south of Tampa in Gibsonton, Florida.Photo:Google Maps Google Maps Thieves in Florida pulled off a massive heist using tractor trailers at an alcohol distributor, making off with over $1.6 million worth of liquor, according toCNN,ABC 11andNBC 2. The search warrant, which targeted an Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max, stated that the thieves took 4,277 cases of liquor from the company, which distributes brands like Franzia Wines and Jose Cuervo, between 4:10 a....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 238 words · Jennifer Elliott