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A rapper whose songs include “Sell Drugz” has been charged with selling drugs in Pennsylvania. Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Persaud performs under the name Montana Millz. The Lebanon County district attorney says Persaud and a female accomplice sold heroin to an undercover police officer during a month-long investigation. The district attorney says they sold 70 bags of heroin to an undercover officer in Lebanon and were arrested Oct. 28. …

Sales of George Orwell’s ’1984′ are up 69 percent on Amazon, according to a list on the website.The book’s 60th anniversary was on June 6th, amidst a flurry of real-world news stories on secret government surveillance. ... Update: As of 3:22 p.m. EST, sales of Orwell's '1984' are up 91 percent on the Amazon "Movers and Shakers list."

A maths teacher bearing a striking resemblance to Breaking Bad’s bald-headed drug kingpin Walter White has been arrested in Boston for drug trafficking after being found with two bags of methamphetamine. Stephen Doran’s similarities to the protagonist of the popular AMC show are staggering, with the man working as a high school maths teacher (Walt teaches chemistry) and undergoing treatment for stage three cancer (as does Walt throughout the show). The 57-year-old has been charged by police after being caught with almost a kilo of methamphetamine which he sent to his school in suburban Boston in heat-sealed bags via US...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said unemployment insurance benefits act as a “safety net for our whole economy,” adding that they simultaneously constitute “probably the most important” stimulus for the economy. During a Capitol Hill press conference on Thursday, a reporter asked Pelosi why she has not brought unemployment benefits into the debate over the so-called fiscal cliff. …

(CBS) LOS ANGELES A "CSI" plot got a little too real when a body was found on the set. The "CSI: New York" crews were filming in a building in Los Angeles when someone discovered a body a couple floors below the crew. Sources say the body is a mummy. Oddly enough, "CSI" already shot an episode about finding a mummified body. "CSI: New York" stars, Gary Sinise and Melina Kanakeredes, were not on set during the discovery. "CSI: New York" premieres its third season on CBS on Wednesday, Sept. 20.

It would be enough to give Tony Soprano agita. Continuing a string of off-screen run-ins with the law, two more fringe characters from "The Sopranos"_ the television mob boss's favorite chef and his muscle-bound bodyguard - have been charged in separate criminal cases. John Ventimiglia, who plays temperamental chef Artie Bucco on the HBO hit, was arraigned Monday on drunken driving, drug possession and other charges after officers spotted him weaving in and out of traffic. A criminal complaint alleges that when police pulled him over, the actor had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and smelled of booze. His blood-alcohol content...

A New Jersey actor who reportedly played prominent roles in a homosexual-themed play paralleling the life of Jesus Christ has been sentenced to six years in prison after his conviction for seeking sex with someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy he met on the Internet. Steven Shriner, right, plays Mary and Peter in 'Corpus Christi' (photo: Ulysses Theatre Comany) Steven Shriner, 43, was convicted in August of attempted sexual assault, attempted luring/enticing of a child, and attempted criminal sexual contact. "This sentence represents a solid victory for the citizens of New Jersey, effectively keeping a convicted sex offender and...

Fears are growing that a serial killer has murdered 12 men, hidden their bodies and assumed their identities, police have revealed. Detectives believe the killer followed the pattern of The Talented Mr Ripley, the character portrayed on film by Matt Damon, who murdered a friend and took over his victim's wealth and his life. A major search has been launched for 11 missing men after blood was found at the home of a retired librarian. The 63-year-old is believed to have been dismembered and dumped elsewhere. Then, it is alleged, the killer assumed his identity to plunder more than £30,000...

Among those in their glory Monday at the capture of Saddam Hussein was movie director John Milius, an unapologetic traditionalist who has long contended he is blacklisted by liberal Hollywood for his love of the military. The Army's 4th Infantry Division, which used 600 troops to capture Hussein, apparently borrowed the operation's code name — Red Dawn — from Milius' 1984 Cold War drama of that name. In the flick, Soviet troops invade America, only to be repelled by a resistance movement coordinated by a group of Colorado high school students.

Florida Boy Drowns Trying To Imitate Movie Stunt Children Chained Selves To Test Strength Posted: 12:21 p.m. EST February 18, 2003 PORT SALERNO, Fla. -- Friends of a 13-year-old Florida boy say he was mimicking a movie stunt when he drowned trying to swim across a pond with a heavy tow chain tied around his waist. They're talking about a scene from the movie "Blue Crush" -- where a girl training for a surf competition holds a large rock while running on the ocean bottom and then surfaces, gasping for air. But instead of a rock, Anthony Alfonsin and...