SHOTLIST

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Fort Myers, Florida, 26 February 2013

1. Friends and family outside funeral home

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Ende-Killion/Family Friend: "Seeing her get her first award for 'Ten Thousand Angles.' I think she went platinum or something. They gave her the award at Fan Fair and I remember her coming out of the trailer�I think she was in Kenny Chesney's trailer because she didn't even have her own dressing room at that time. Nashville is a pretty cool place. She made her mark on it."

3. Mindy McCready's mother greeting family and friends

4. Family/friends console each other before funeral began

5. Man holding pamphlet during McCready funeral

6. SOUNDUP (English) Gayle Inge/McCready's Mother: "Mindy adored her two children with her whole heart. She wanted them to know that nothing, not even death, could ever separate her from them."

7. Images of McCready on screen behind altar during funeral with pan to her mother

8. Wide of funeral gatherers

9. Portrait of McCready with pan to her mother addressing attendees

10. Family gathered at funeral

11. Images of family and Mindy McCready on screen with pan to mother

12. Family/friends listening to McCready's mother

13. SOUNDUP (English) Gayle Inge/McCready's mother "Her spirit found healing on the other side. Her famous last words were 'I love you. Miss you. Mean it.' And I will always love her, miss her and I mean it."

14. Casket being loaded into hearse

STORYLINE

MINDY MCCREADY'S FUNERAL HELD IN HER HOMETOWN OF FORT MYERS, FLORIDA

As her music played in the background, country music star Mindy McCready was remembered Tuesday (26 Feb.) by friends and family as a fun and talented singer who also "wanted to be healed" from her past.

About 200 friends and family gathered for McCready's funeral in her Florida hometown as images were shown on a large screen behind the altar and her portrait stood nearby.

"Her spirit found healing on the other side. Her famous last words were 'I love you. Miss you. Mean it.' And I will always love her, miss her and I mean it," said McCready's mother, Gayle Inge, at the Crossroads Baptist Church in Fort Myers, Fla.

McCready, whose real name was Malinda Gayle McCready, committed suicide Feb. 17 at her home in Arkansas, days after leaving a court-ordered substance abuse treatment program. The 37-year-old mother of two died from a single gunshot to the head about a month after her longtime boyfriend David Wilson's death, also thought to be suicide, in the same place.

Inge, McCready's mother, acknowledged that her daughter had faced many battles but now: "Her spirit found healing on the other side."

McCready's personal problems started in 2004 and included a custody battle with her mother over one of her sons. She was briefly hospitalized in 2010 after police responded to an overdose call to a home her mother owned in North Fort Myers, Fla., and she later appeared on "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew," where she declared herself clean from drugs.

McCready's family declined to address any custody issue at the funeral.

"She wanted them to know that nothing, not even death, could separate her from them," Gayle Inge said of McCready's two sons, Zander Ryan and Zayne Christopher McCready grew up in Fort Myers, where she took private vocal lessons and later sang in karaoke bars.

Family friend Julie Ende-Killion remembers the day when McCready won her first award for "Ten Thousand Angels."

"And I remember her coming out of the trailer," she recalled. "I think she was in Kenny Chesney's trailer because she didn't even have her own dressing room at that time."

McCready arrived in Nasvhille in 1994 and hit the top of the country charts before her personal problems sidetracked her career.

In 1996, her "Guys Do It All the Time" hit No. 1. Her other hits included "Ten Thousand Angels," which her stepfather sang during the funeral.

PHOTOGRAPHER WANTS BIG DAMAGES IN BIEBER LAWSUIT

A celebrity photographer sought to boost the potential damages he could win from Justin Bieber in a lawsuit that accuses the singer and a bodyguard of battery in a confrontation outside a recording studio.

The photographer's attorney, Mark DiCowden, said at a Tuesday (1 MAY 2014) hearing that he has documented at least 11 similar alleged assaults against photographers over two years involving Bieber and his security personnel. DiCowden said a punitive damage award for Jeffrey Binion could deter future assaults against celebrity photographers, known as "paparazzi."

"It's not a financial fishing expedition," DiCowden said in asking Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel to allow him to pursue unspecified punitive damages. "It is well known around the world that Justin Bieber does not like to be photographed in public."

Zabel did not immediately rule. Bieber attorney Jared Lopez said there is no evidence that Binion was physically harmed in the alleged attack in June - meaning compensatory damages for the photographer might be minimal - and no proof that Bieber himself told bodyguard Hugo Hesny to go after Binion.

"I don't tell security how to do their job," Bieber said in a March deposition in the case, according to Lopez.

Outside the courtroom, Bieber attorney Roy Black called the lawsuit "frivolous" and intended mainly to generate publicity. DiCowden denied that.

Hesny is facing a misdemeanor battery charge in the Binion case, and he was also recently charged in another photographer confrontation in Atlanta. Bieber is not facing criminal charges in either case. Other incidents involving Bieber bodyguards have occurred in Los Angeles, Hawaii, Argentina and England, according to court papers.

DiCowden also wants Zabel to order Bieber to return to Miami for another deposition to answer questions about his on-again, off-again girlfriend, singer and actress Selena Gomez. DiCowden claims he was improperly prevented from asking those questions during the March deposition and that they are important to the Florida case because she may have been present during previous photographer attacks.

Zabel is holding a hearing in June on that request.

Separately, Bieber has pleaded not guilty to DUI, resisting arrest and driving with an expired license after a Jan. 23 arrest in Miami Beach. A May 5 trial date is set in that case.

AP Entertainment

Miami, 1 April 2014

1. Wide of court

2. Medium of attorney Mark DiCowden speaking in court

AP Entertainment

New York, 7 Nov. 2012

3. Various of Justin Bieber arriving at annual Victoria's Secret fashion show

AP Entertianment

New York, 8 Sept. 2011

4. Various of Justin Bieber at a Fashion's Night Out event

AP Entertainment

Miami, 1 April 2014

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark DiCowden/Attorney for Plaintiff Jeffrey Binion

"When somebody does something intentional they are absolutely held accountable for that not just for the damages that they create to the person individually but also the turn effect in the future for anything else so they don't repeat this conduct."

6. Medium of judge Sarah Zabel listening in court

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Roy Black/Attorney for Justin Bieber

"Mr. Bieber has to litigate this against a plaintiff who has no damages whatsoever who admitted that he wasn't even injured in any way so this is more for social media and for publicity than it is as a real lawsuit.

8. Medium of attorney Mark Dicowden speaking in court

SHOTLIST:

AP Television

1. Various, Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's companion, arriving at courthouse (dark hair, dark suit and tie, white shirt)

2. Various of Virgie Arthur, Smith's mother, arriving at courthouse, holding onto policeman's belt

3. Various, Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead arriving at courthouse (blonde, grey suit, white shirt and tie)

4. Wide interior courtroom, Arthur takes witness stand

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5. Wide shot interior courtroom

6. SOUNDBITE, (English) Virgie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith:

"Did we speak to each other, yes. Were we allowed to visit with each other? No."

(Lawyer: What do you mean, 'Were we allowed to visit with each other?')

"When Howard came in, Howard Stern came in as her lawyer, friend, whatever he was, when he came in, all of the family was shut out, all of us. Not just me, her brothers and sisters, her niece and nephews, all of us were shut out, not just me."

7. Wide shot of courtroom, with Arthur on stand

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8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Virgie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith:

"I don't believe that. You can't make me believe that. She was too full of life, she loved life. She loved to be in the public, she loved to be seen."

(Lawyer interrupts: No foundation, your honour. At what time did she love life?)

"All her life."

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9. Wide, court with Arthur is on stand

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Virgie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith:

(Lawyer, off camera: You have no idea what your daughter's intentions are as to where she wants to be laid to rest, do you?)

"Not except for when she was at home, she said she wanted to be buried in Texas."

(Lawyer, off camera: When she was home?)

"Yes. When she lived in Texas, that's where she came from, that's where she was born, that's where she wanted to be buried, with the family."

(Lawyer: And how old was she when she told you that?)

"Twenty-five, twenty six. She was in her twenties."

(Lawyer: She had a conversation with you about where she wanted to be buried when she was twenty-five?)

"Yeah. We have family plots, yeah."

11. Extra wide, courtroom

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Virgie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith:

"That's when I said, um, 'Please, Vicky, baby, Danny is gone and you're going to be next. Please pay attention to what's around you and who's around you. Please be careful.' I said that on national TV because I knew she was going to be next. My grandson did not overdose. Howard was there when he died and Howard was there when my daughter died. And he has my granddaughter now and it's not even his child and I'm afraid for her life, as well. Please help us."

13. Wide shot courtroom

ANS BATTLE CONTINUES

The drawn-out court battle over what will happen to the body of US celebrity Anna Nicole Smith continued in a Florida courtroom on Wednesday.

For the second day in a row, Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, and her estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, appeared before circuit judge Larry Seidlin in Fort Lauderdale, each hoping to convince him that they should be responsible for the burial of the former Playboy model's remains.

The legal manoeuvring has been going on for about a week, and it was almost two weeks since Smith died on 8 February, 2007.

Stern wants her to be buried next to her son Daniel in the Bahamas, where he died last year from apparent drug-related causes.

But Arthur told the court that Smith had told her when she was 25 that she wanted to be buried in Texas.

Arthur, back on the stand on Wednesday, testified that drugs soured her relationship with her daughter.

Arthur said the two talked only every few months and that Smith often called her in the middle of the night sounding drugged.

She also disputed Stern's testimony that Smith always spoke about death.

"She was too full of life, she loved life. She loved to be in the public, she loved to be seen," she said.

Smith's estranged mother said she last saw her daughter more than ten years ago, in 1996, and blamed Stern, saying, "when he came in, all of the family was shut out."

Arthur also disputed Stern's testimony on Tuesday that Smith was always obsessed with her own death and expected to die young, just like her hero, Marilyn Monroe.

Arthur testified that more than a decade ago, when Smith was in her twenties, she informed her mother that "she wanted to be buried in Texas," in the family burial plots where her grandparents are buried.

In perhaps the most emotional exchange in the days of hearings thus far, Arthur implied that Howard K. Stern was responsible for the deaths of both Anna Nicole and Daniel.

She said she tried to warn her daughter that "she was going to be next," and said she urged her to "be careful."

Without written proof of Smith's wishes, Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin was forced to hear testimony from those who claim to know what Anna Nicole wanted after her death and try to come to a solution.

Seidlin indicated Wednesday the best result would be a compromise - and soon - since the medical examiner again warned Smith's body was decomposing more quickly than expected and a public viewing could be in danger.

Stern had earlier testified Smith never recovered from her son's death. He said a grief-stricken Smith threw herself over his body as he lay in a coffin in the Bahamas, wailing, "Daniel has to be buried, I want to buried with him."

Judge Seidlin was expected to make a ruling by Friday.

Also at issue in court is the paternity of Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn.

Stern is listed as the father on the birth certificate, but a photographer who once dated Smith, former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, says the girl is his daughter.

Smith was the widow of Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II.

The two married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family over his estimated 500 million US dollar fortune since his death in 1995.

The cause of her death is under investigation.

SHOTLIST:

AP Television

1. Various, Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's companion, arriving at courthouse (dark hair, dark suit and tie, white shirt)

2. Various of Virgie Arthur, Smith's mother, arriving at courthouse, holding onto policeman's trousers

3. Various, Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead arriving at courthouse (blonde, grey suit, white shirt and tie)

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4. Interior courtroom, Arthur walks up to witness stand, sits down, pull out to wide, courtroom

5. SOUNDBITE, (English) Virgie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith:

"I don't believe that. You can't make me believe that. She was too full of life, she loved life. She loved to be in the public, she loved to be seen."

(Lawyer interrupts: No foundation, your honour. At what time did she love life?)

"All her life."

6. Wider shot of Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin speaking to Arthur

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Virgie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith:

(Seidlin, off camera, asks: If you could have done one thing differently with your daughter, what would you have done?)

"When I knew that she was really deep into drugs, I would have went and kidnapped her. I would have done everything I could possibly do, to try and..."

8. Wide, courtroom

BATTLE OVER ANNA NICOLE SMITH BODY CONTINUES

The drawn-out court battle over what will happen to the body of US celebrity Anna Nicole Smith continued in a Florida courtroom on Wednesday (February 21.)

For the second day in a row, Smith's companion, Howard K. Stern, and her estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, appeared before circuit judge Larry Seidlin in Fort Lauderdale, each hoping to convince him that they should be responsible for the burial of the former Playboy model's remains.

The legal manoeuvring has been going on for about a week, and it was almost two weeks since Smith died on 8 February, 2007.

Stern wants her to be buried next to her son Daniel in the Bahamas, where he died last year from apparent drug-related causes.

But Arthur wants the pair to be buried in Smith's native Texas, her lawyer said.

Arthur, back on the stand on Wednesday, testified that drugs soured her relationship with her daughter.

Arthur said the two talked only every few months and that Smith often called her in the middle of the night sounding drugged.

She also disputed Stern's testimony that Smith always spoke about death.

"She was too full of life, she loved life. She loved to be in the public, she loved to be seen," she said.

Seidlin asked her: "If you could have done one thing differently with your daughter, what would you have done?"

Arthur replied: "When I knew that she was really deep into drugs, I would have went and kidnapped her. I would have done everything I could possibly do..."

Without written proof of Smith's own wishes, Judge Larry Seidlin heard testimony from those who claim to know what she wanted. He said he would rule by Friday.

Stern had earlier testified Smith never recovered from her son's death. He said a grief-stricken Smith threw herself over his body as he lay in a coffin in the Bahamas, wailing, "Daniel has to be buried, I want to buried with him."

Also at issue in court is the paternity of Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn.

Stern is listed as the father on the birth certificate, photographer and ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead and Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, have also filed separate paternity challenges.

Smith was the widow of Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II.

The two married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family over his estimated 500 million US dollar fortune since his death in 1995.

The cause of her death is under investigation.

SHOTLIST:-

ABC (WSVN) - No Access N America/Internet

Broward County, Florida - 21 February 2007

1. Anna Nicole Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur being escorted out of medical examiners office and getting into a vehicle

2. Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend, Howard K. Stern getting into a different vehicle outside medical examiners office

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida - 21 February 2007

3. Interior courtroom, Arthur walks over to witness stand

4. Wide of lawyers standing as Virgie Arthur sits in witness chair

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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - 21 February 2007

5. SOUNDBITE, (English) Virgie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith:

(Lawyer, off camera: "Did she ever talk about wanting to be buried in the same area with Marilyn Monroe?")

Arthur: "Wherever the stars were buried, that's where she wanted to be buried, yeah. She said, 'Mum, I want to live this life, and this is my road, I want to live this life, and yes, she did mention that once that she would like to be buried by Marilyn Monroe."

7. Wide of Judge Larry Seidlin speaking to Virgie Arthur

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Virgie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith:

"(Lawyer, off-camera: And the last conversation you had with your daughter about her death wishes, meaning final remains, would have been that she wanted to be buried in California with the stars. Is that correct?"

Arthur: "The last death...yes, probably so, yes."

9. Wide of Stern's lawyer questioning Arthur

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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - 21 February 2007

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Virgie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith:

"That's when I said, um, 'Please, Vicky, baby, Danny is gone and you're going to be next. Please pay attention to what's around you and who's around you. Please be careful.' I said that on national TV because I knew she was going to be next. My grandson did not overdose. Howard was there when he died and Howard was there when my daughter died. And he has my granddaughter now and it's not even his child and I'm afraid for her life, as well. "

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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - 21 February 2007

11. Wide of judge talking to Stern's lawyer as she questions Arthur

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Virgie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole Smith:

"(Lawyer: Have you in any fashion profited at all from the death of your daughter?"

Arthur: "I'm trying to process that question... He has (pointing at Stern). Yes he has."

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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - 21 February 2007

13. Wide of the courtroom

14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Howard K. Stern, boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith:

"(Lawyer: What is your source of income?"

Stern: "Right now? I'm borrowing money from my parents, to be here and to fight for Anna and what she wanted."

"(Lawyer: Do we a favour and don't editorialise on it.)

15. Wide of the courtroom

16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Howard K. Stern, boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith:

"(Judge: "Where were you living in 2004? California?)

Stern: Yes I have an apartment in California that Anna paid the rent on and I would stay at her house most nights.

17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Howard K. Stern, boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith:

"(Judge: And when you went to a restaurant who paid the cheque?)

Stern: Anna paid for most things, she paid for everything basically.

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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - 21 February 2007

18. Former boyfriend of Smith, Larry Birkhead taking oath in court

19. SOUNDBITE:(English), Larry Birkhead, Smith's former boyfriend:

"I guess the problem that I am having with it is that I am a California resident and if and when I get the daughter that I know and believe is mine, she won't live in the Bahamas, so is that a place that she is going to have to travel to go see her brother's and her mother's grave.

(Judge: "It's a long car ride huh...")

Birkhead: Or do you consider bringing Daniel back here and I hate to do that because...

(Judge: "That is a serious matter, we talked about that, it's a serious matter, exhuming a body, because it is a serious matter, it is something we will talk about.")

Birkhead: I don't want to separate the mother from the child.

20. Birkhead hugs unidentified woman ++MUTE++

21. Stern walks out of court ++MUTE++

STERN AND ARTHUR APPEAR IN COURT

Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur visited the medical examiner's office on Wednesday where her daughter's body has been held under police guard.

Arthur, and Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern, made the morgue visit during a lunchtime break from the Florida court hearing that will determine who gets custody of the late 39-year olds body.

For the second day in a row, Stern and Arthur appeared before circuit judge Larry Seidlin in Fort Lauderdale, each hoping to convince him that they should be responsible for the burial of the former Playboy model's remains.

The legal manoeuvring has been going on for about a week, and it was almost two weeks since Smith died on 8 February, 2007.

Seidlin has said he will make a ruling on the matter by on Friday.

But for a second time, Broward County's chief medical examiner warned the judge that little time remains before Smith's body becomes too decomposed for a public viewing.

Before the court broke for lunch, Arthur tearfully acknowledged that her daughter last told her she wanted to be buried in California near her idol Marilyn Monroe - an admission that could hurt the woman's fight to have the pinup laid to rest in her native Texas.

Arthur said her last conversation with her daughter about her burial came more than 10 years ago. She said Smith told her, "Wherever the stars are buried, that's where she wanted to be buried."

During the court battle with Stern, Arthur has said she wants her daughter - and her grandson, Smith's deceased son Daniel buried in their native state of Texas.

Arthur added that Smith told her, during her twenties, that she wanted to be buried in the family burial plot in Texas.

However Stern wants her body to be laid to rest next to her son Daniel in the Bahamas, where he died last year from apparent drug-related causes

In perhaps the most emotional exchange so far, Arthur implied that Howard K. Stern was responsible for the deaths of both Anna Nicole and her son.

Arthur was hammered by Stern's lawyers with questions about any compensation she has or would receive from news organisations for access to interviews or footage after the deaths of her daughter and grandson.

When asked pointedly if she "in any fashion profited at all from the death of (her) daughter," Arthur pointed at Stern and said, "He has."

After the break Howard K. Stern, took the stand and was questioned before about the finances of the couple after Arthur had accused him of benefiting financially from Smith's death.

Stern admitted that the former Playmate had been supporting them, which included paying for an apartment for Stern in California.

"Anna paid for most things, she paid for everything basically," he added.

Without written proof of Smith's wishes, Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin was forced to hear testimony from those who claim to know what Anna Nicole wanted after her death and try to come to a solution.

This included Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, who is subject to a paternity test as he claims to be the father of Smith's five-month-old daughter, Dannielynn.

Birkhead said he thought Smith should be buried close to where Dannielynn will be living and he was adamant that this would be in California with him.

"The problem that I am having with it is that I am a California resident and if and when I get the daughter that I know and believe is mine, she won't live in the Bahamas, so is that a place that she is going to have to travel to go see her brother's and her mother's grave," he added.

A court case is currently taking place in Los Angles to determine the child's biological parent.

Smith was the widow of Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II.

The two married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. She had been fighting his family over his estimated 500 million (m) US dollar fortune since his death in 1995.

The cause of her death is under investigation.

HULK HOGAN TAKES WITNESS STAND FOR DAY 2 IN SEX TAPE TRIAL

Former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan is on the witness stand for Day 2 of trial in his civil lawsuit against Gawker Media.

The trial resumed Tuesday (08 MARCH 2016) morning in St. Petersburg with Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, being cross-examined by Gawker lawyers.

Hogan is suing the New York-based website for $100 million for posting an edited clip of a sex tape made of him and the wife of his then-best friend.

Hogan said he didn't authorize the tape to be made or authorize Gawker to publish it.

Hogan claims Gawker invaded his privacy.

Gawker says the publication was a legitimate scoop because Hogan had talked openly about his sex life before, in forums such as Howard Stern's radio show.

Gawker's attorney has acknowledged that Gawker broadcast one minute and 41 seconds of the 30-minute video in 2012 and that around nine seconds of the edited video included sexual content.

The trial is exploring questions about celebrity and expectation of privacy

CLEARANCE DETAILS

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St. Petersburg, Florida - 8 March 2016

+++WHITE FLASH BETWEEN SOUNDBITES+++

1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hulk Hogan, Plaintiff:

"In protection mode, I take it you can do whatever is necessary to protect yourself. Right? (Hogan) Well, yeah, especially when someone is trying to talk about your personal privacy, and an invasion of your privacy...as Terry Bollea, the man. I protect that as Terry Bollea and Hulk Hogan not wanting to talk about Terry Bollea (Gawker Attorney) But when you appeared on Howard Stern, and when you appeared on all those other programs we saw yesterday, I don't know about you, but I didn't hear Terry Bollea mentioned once, did you? (Hogan) Did I hear Terry Bollea mentioned? No I did not. (Attorney for Gawker)"

+++WHITE FLASH+++

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hulk Hogan, Plaintiff:

"I believe you were confused yesterday in your direct examination with Mr. Turkel, and you told us that Gawker posted the commentary, and four or five hours later, you're doing these interviews. Remember that? (Hogan) I think it was the video hit, and then four or five hours later. I can't recall exactly, all I know is when the news came crashing down on us, Gawker said 'we've seen the video and Bubba is on there turning the camera. That's the first time anybody actually said we've seen the video and told me personally because other than that, I thought they were rumors. And I was praying there wasn't one."

BIEBER GETS MAY 5 TRIAL DATE IN FLORIDA CASE, LAWYER DEFENDS CIVIL SUIT DEPOSITION

A May 5 trial date was set Tuesday (11 MARCH 2014) for Justin Bieber in the Florida case charging him with driving under the influence, resisting arrest and possessing an invalid driver's license.

Prosecutor Daniel Diaz-Balart also said at a brief hearing that no plea offer has been made for the 20-year-old pop singer, who has pleaded not guilty. Bieber's attorney, Roy Black, also said there was no plea deal on the table and none had been rejected, even though first offenders in most similar cases are offered a plea to avoid potential jail time.

The initial March trial date was postponed while attorneys for news organizations and Bieber wrestled with release of police videos of him giving a urine sample for a drug test. Those videos were made public last week with sensitive segments blacked out.

Bieber and R&B singer Khalil Amir Sharieff were arrested Jan. 23 in Miami Beach after what police called an illegal drag race with high-end sports cars. Breath tests showed Bieber's blood-alcohol content was below the 0.02 limit for underage drivers. Other tests detected marijuana and Xanax.

Miami-Dade County Judge William Altfield said Sharieff has a separate April 7 trial date on a DUI charge. He too has pleaded not guilty.

Black was also asked about a deposition Bieber gave last week in a lawsuit filed by a photographer who claims he was roughed up and threatened by one of the singer's bodyguards. Video of that deposition quickly began appearing on Internet sites, which Black criticized Tuesday as an invasion of Bieber's privacy.

Among other things, Black said, Bieber was asked in the deposition about topics such as his relationships with singers Selena Gomez and Usher "that had nothing to do with the case." A judge previously denied motions to keep Bieber's deposition sealed, he added.

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Miami, March 11, 2014

1. Wide Miami-Dade County Court Judge William Altfield enters and sits on bench

2. Mid lawyers approach the podium

3. Mid judge on bench

4. Mid lawyers as judge is speaking UPSOUND (English)

Judge: "Has there been an offer conveyed?"

Prosecutor: "Uh, no there has not."

Judge: "There has not been, ok. Let us go into May, May 5th."

Prosecutor: "Works for us."

Roy Black, Defense Attorney: "Yes, that's fine"

AP Television

Miami, March 11, 2014

5. Wide defense attorney Roy Black walking out of courtroom

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Roy Black/Bieber's Defense Attorney:

"No, this case has just been set for trial. And we will start preparing for a trial."

7. Mid reporters in hallway

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Roy Black/Bieber's Defense Attorney:

"He goes to a deposition which starts out asking questions, 'what do you think about Usher, how is your dating with Selena Gomez,' asking him all these questions that have nothing to with the case, and is only acting as a shill for TMZ, and then immediately turns around and either sells or gives the clips of the video to TMZ, after what they did to him. And you want to know what's wrong with what happens with celebrity in America today? What's wrong in being a success? Well, this is the best example. This kid who did nothing except but try to become a success in music has turned his life at times into a nightmare. And you wonder why he sometimes fights back against it."

9. Mid Black walking down courthouse hallway to exit

SHOTLIST:

AP Television

1. Photographers falling over as Howard K. Stern walks towards the court, surrounded by media

2. Various of Anna Nicole Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, getting out of vehicle and walking towards court surrounded by media

3. Smith's father, Donald Hogan walking towards courthouse

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4. Smith's ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead inside courtroom

5. Virgie Arthur and Birkhead hug

6. Howard K. Stern walks into courtroom

7. Close of Virgie Arthur

8. Wide of courtroom as Judge Larry Seidlin walks in

9. Close of Judge Seidlin

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Milstein, Court Appointed Guardian to Dannielynn Marshall Stern:

"The medical examiner informed me that he would inform you that the embalming had been completed by noon and I also left word, as I promised I would, of the same information. As a result, the body is now safe and secure - I was told it is now back under security at the medical examiner's office - and we're now awaiting what needs to be done further on this."

11. Mid of Judge Seidlin talking

STORYLINE:

Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern appeared in court in Florida on Tuesday to pursue his quest to "carry out what Anna Nicole wanted" for her burial.

Stern refused to answer any questions as he walked the short distance to the courtroom in Fort Lauderdale surrounded by media.

Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, father Donald Smith and former boyfriend Larry Birkhead also appeared for the hearing.

No immediate ruling on the burial question was expected from Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin, who had ordered Stern to appear in court on Tuesday.

Richard Milstein who is the court appointed guardian to Smith's daughter Dannielynn Marshall Stern, told the court that the embalming of Anna Nicole Smith would be finished later on Tuesday.

"The body is now safe and secure - I was told it is now back under security at the medical examiner's office - and we're now awaiting what needs to be done further on this," Milstein added.

Stern wants Smith's body buried in the Bahamas in a plot that was purchased next to her son Daniel, who died in September.

While her mother, Virgie Arthur wants her brought home to her native Texas.

A lawyer for Stern handed over a copy of the former Playboy model's will on Friday, but it did not mention her burial wishes.

Without written proof, Seidlin will be forced to hear testimony from those who claim to know what Smith wanted.

Smith's mother has a perhaps unlikely ally in Larry Birkhead, Smith's ex-boyfriend, who delayed a decision on the star's burial by fighting for another DNA sample he hopes will prove he is his baby's father.

He was expected to testify for Arthur.

But Stern has allies of his own. A bodyguard, doctor, neighbour and friend all have submitted affidavits claiming Smith told them she wanted to be buried next to her son.

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, the dispute over who is the father of five-month-old Dannielynn was scheduled to take place in a closed-door hearing.

Stern is named as the father on Dannielynn's birth certificate but Birkhead and Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, have filed a separate paternity challenges.

The former Playboy playmate died in Florida on February 8 at the age of 39. The cause of death is under investigation.

Smith was the widow of Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, whom she married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26.

She had been fighting his family over his estimated five hundred (m) million fortune since his death in 1995.

SHOTLIST:

AP TELEVISION

1. Photographers falling over as Howard K. Stern walks towards the court, surrounded by media

2. Various of Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, getting out of vehicle and walking towards court surrounded by media

POOL

3. Smith's ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead inside courtroom

4. Virgie Arthur and Birkhead hug

5. Wide of courtroom as Judge Larry Seidlin walks in

6. Close up of Virgie Arthur

POOL

7. Howard K. Stern walks up to witness stand and takes oath

8. Cutaway of people in courtroom

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's Attorney and Boyfriend

"She was my best friend, my lover, the mother of my daughter, everything to me, literally everything, the whole world."

10. Wide of Stern, sitting in the witness chair

11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's Attorney and Boyfriend

"I actually, at the time, was trying to convince Anna that maybe it would be better if Daniel were laid to rest in Los Angeles. And Anna was very firm, very firm, on the Bahamas was her home, that's where she wanted to raise Dannielynn, and she wanted Daniel to be near her. And she was pretty firm on that decision."

12. Wide shot of courtroom

STORYLINE

Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend, Howard K. Stern testified in a Florida court on Tuesday at a hearing to decide who would get custody of the actress's remains.

Howard K. Stern told the court that the late Anna Nicole Smith meant everything to him.

"She was my best friend, my lover, the mother of my daughter, everything to me, literally everything, the whole world.''

Stern said that he wanted to follow Smith's wishes and have her body buried in the Bahamas in a plot that was purchased next to her son Daniel, who died in September.

During his testimony Stern said that he tried to persuade Anna that it would be better to bury her late son Daniel in Los Angeles.

"Anna was very firm, very firm, on the Bahamas was her home, that's where she wanted to raise Dannielynn, and she wanted Daniel to be near her," said Stern.

A lawyer for Stern handed over a copy of the former Playboy model's will on Friday, but it did not mention her burial wishes.

Without written proof, Seidlin will be forced to hear testimony from those who claim to know what Smith wanted.

Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur wants her brought home to her native Texas.

Smith's mother has a perhaps unlikely ally in Larry Birkhead, Smith's ex-boyfriend, who delayed a decision on the star's burial by fighting for another DNA sample he hopes will prove he is his baby's father.

He was expected to testify for Arthur.

But Stern has allies of his own. A bodyguard, doctor, neighbour and friend all have submitted affidavits claiming Smith told them she wanted to be buried next to her son.

No immediate ruling on the burial question was expected from Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin.

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, the dispute over who is the father of five-month-old Dannielynn was scheduled to be take place in a closed-door hearing.

Stern is named father on the girl's birth certificate but Birkhead and Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, have filed a separate paternity challenges.

The former Playboy playmate died in Florida on February 8 at the age of 39. The cause of death is under investigation.

Smith was the widow of Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, whom she married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26.

She had been fighting his family over his estimated five hundred (m) million fortune since his death in 1995.

Family and players mourned Marlins star pitcher Jose Fernandez Thursday at a private funeral at the St. Brendan Catholic Church in Miami.

Fernandez, a 24-year-old, two-time All-Star, died early Sunday along with two friends in a boating accident off Miami Beach.

His funeral service lasted more than two hours. Those in attendance included Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, current and former Marlins players and two hall-of-famers, Marlins executives Tony Perez and Andre Dawson.

The private service drew about 300 mourners, who nearly filled the large sanctuary at St. Brendan Catholic Church in Miami.

Pallbearers wore black Fernandez jerseys as they carried his casket.

Miami, Florida - 29 September 2016

1. Pallbearers carrying casket.

2. Tight of pallbearers.

3. Fernandez's grandmother and other family crying, kissing casket in back of hearse.

4. Priest comforting grandmother.

5. Various of group.

6. Wide and tight of Marc Anthony in crowd.

7. Various of people hugging.

Amid recent accusations of rape and sexual assault that have derailed his career comeback, US icon Bill Cosby performed on Friday night in the US city of Melbourne, in front of an excited audience.

The 2,000-seat theatre beefed up security and announcements before Cosby took the stage warned a disturbance was possible.

Radio hosts had even offered cash and prizes to anyone who made it happen.

But only one protester stood outside holding a sign reading "Rape is no joke."

When the controversial artist took the stage at the Maxwell C. King Center For The Performing Arts, people stood and hollered, and he returned a thumbs-up.

Cosby, who wore cargo pants and a shirt that said "Hello Friend", wandered from a childhood fear of God to the loss of freedom in marriage.

The most impassioned of his fans breathed a sigh of relief.

Judith Stone travelled from Madison, West Virginia, for the show, deeming it "a fantastic job" and saying she was grateful no one interrupted it.

Elsewhere, audiences will not have the chance to see Cosby, as performances in Oklahoma, Nevada, Illinois, Arizona, South Carolina and Washington were called off.

Projects on NBC and Netflix have been cancelled, and TV Land decided not to air reruns of "The Cosby Show."

The comedian's producers said at least 28 other shows remain on his schedule through May 2015.

Cosby has never been charged in connection with any of the allegations.

AP TELEVISION

Melbourne, Florida - 21 November 2014

++NIGHT SHOTS++

1. Sign advertising the Bill Cosby show

2. Police cars outside the building where Bill Cosby performed

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Lemaitre, Protester carrying sign reading (English) "Rape is not a joke":

"I want to make sure that these women are being listened to and that they know that we care and I don't want them to get the message that because this is a sold out show and that it hasn't been cancelled that the people of Brevard County don't care because we do."

4. People going to Bill Cosby's show

5. Crowd inside building where the performance took place

6. Woman buying ticket at counter

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Sedensky, Associated Press Journalist:

"So for all the weeks of negative headlines, the bad publicity, the terrible allegations against him. All that seems to be left outside and inside here you have the warmest crowd you could have ever hoped for. People just laughing very hard, slapping their knees, and even shouting we love you Bill Cosby."

8. Close up of ticket to the Bill Cosby show

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Sedensky, Associated Press Journalist:

"He talked about childhood, he talked about marriage, he talked about children, he talked about religion but everything was pretty family friendly. He didn't venture into any controversial territory, stayed away from any topic that might be remotely connected to the allegations against him."

10. People coming to see the show

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Webberling, Attended Bill Cosby's show:

"I think it's kind of stupid for anyone to react in any way because it's like there hasn't been any arrests. There hasn't been any tangible evidence up against Mr. Cosby so why cause a scene if there's no reason to?"

12. People walking out of building where Cosby performed

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Judith Stone, Attended Bill Cosby's show:

"I am very very glad. That would've been just so inappropriate for anyone to have done anything like that. He did such a fantastic job."

14. People walking out of building where Cosby performed

SHOTLIST

1. Exterior of Fourth District Court of Appeals

2. Various of female attorney representing Richard Milstein (child's advocate for Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern) files papers at the court with court employee

3. Various of Howard Stern's attorneys: June Hoffman (on left) and Krista Barth being escorted by police into Fourth District Court of Appeals

4. June Hoffman files papers (UPSOUND (English) "Hi, how are you? I have file in the Howard Stern matter please.")

5. June Hoffman picks up briefcase (UPSOUND (English) "That's it, not very eventful.")

6. Hoffman and Barth leave court

7. SOUNDBITE (English) June Hoffman, Attorney for Howard Stern:

"The record is absolutely undisputed that Miss Smith's intentions were that she would be buried with her son. Even Virgie's own witnesses had to concede that that was the case. She (Smith) loved this boy, he was the world to her and we are just trying everything we can do to bring her home."

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Krista Barth, Attorney for Howard Stern:

"There is no paternity case in Broward County last time I checked. There were some motions filed on behalf of Mr. Birkhead (former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith), interestingly enough simultaneously with them seeking relief in the Bahamian court, so I think that Judge Korda is properly looking into the jurisdictional issues and perhaps we expect him to issue a ruling tomorrow at that hearing."

9. Wide shot of Hoffman and Barth outside of court

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marilyn Beuttenmuller, Court Clerk:

"The court has just issued an order scheduling oral arguments on the case of Virgie Arthur versus Richard Milstein and Howard K. Stern, case number 4D07-715. It will be held at 9:30 tomorrow morning (Wednesday) at the Fourth District Court of Appeals. Each side will be allowed 20 minutes to argue and the respondents shall divide their 20 minutes as they see fit."

11. Exterior of Fourth District Court of Appeals

STORYLINE:

Lawyers for Howard Stern, who was the boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith up until her death, and a court-appointed advocate for her infant daughter, Dannielynn, on Tuesday filed papers at a Florida appeals court, in the continuing court battle over the final resting place of Smith's remains.

Stern's attorneys told an appeals court on Tuesday that Smith's estranged mother was trying to bury her in Texas, which they said was a place she never wanted to be when she was alive.

Smith's mother on Monday had appealed a judge's ruling that left the decision on the Playboy model's burial to a court-appointed advocate for her infant daughter.

The child's advocate, Richard Milstein, has said he would bury Smith in the Bahamas, beside her 20-year-old son.

Milstein and Smith's boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, filed their response on Tuesday at the Fourth District Court of Appeals in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin last week gave the custody of Smith's body to the advocate for the Smith's baby daughter and urged him to have Smith laid to rest next to her son, who died last autumn and is buried in the Bahamas.

June Hoffman, an attorney for Howard Stern said that the record was absolutely undisputed that Anna Nicole Smith wanted to be buried next to her late son Daniel in the Bahamas.

She added that even Virgie Arthur's witnesses conceded this during open court.

"She (Anna) loved this boy, he was the world to her and we are just trying everything we can do to bring her home," added Hoffman.

Meanwhile, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, not yet 6 months old, is living in the gated, waterfront home in the Bahamas, where Smith lived with Stern until her death.

A judge in the Bahamas, where custody of the little girl is in dispute, has scheduled a March hearing in that case.

Stern and two other men claim they are Dannielynn's father, and Arthur also wants custody.

The other men are Smith's former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead and Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, also says he may be the father.

Stern is listed on Dannielynn's birth certificate as the father.

Outside the Florida court, Krista Barth, attorney for Howard Stern said that Birkhead had filed papers for custody of Dannielynn in the Bahamian court.

A court clerk then told the media that the court would hear the legal arguments for Virgie Arthur versus Richard Milstein and Howard K. Stern, at 9:30 (14:30 GMT) on Wednesday.

"Each side will be allowed 20 minutes to argue and the respondents shall divide their 20 minutes as they see fit," said the court clerk.

Smith was married to Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26.

She had been fighting his family over his estimated 500 million US dollars fortune since his death in 1995 and her baby daughter could stand to inherit millions.

A medical examiner has yet to determine Smith's cause of death. Toxicology results could take up to two more weeks.

Smith died February 8 in a Florida hotel, but the cause is still unknown.

SHOTLIST

++SHOTS 3 AND 4 MUTE++

1. Former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith, Larry Birkhead taking oath in court

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Birkhead, Smith's former boyfriend:

"I guess the problem that I am having with it is that I am a California resident and if and when I get the daughter that I know and believe is mine, she won't live in the Bahamas, so is that a place that she is going to have to travel to go see her brother and her mother's grave."

(Judge: "It's a long car ride huh?")

Birkhead: "Or do you consider bringing Daniel back here and I hate to do that because ..."

(Judge: "But that's a serious matter, we talked about that. It's a serious matter, exhuming a body, because it's just a serious matter, it's something we'll talk about.")

Birkhead: "I don't want to separate the mother from the child."

3. Birkhead in court (++MUTE++)

4. Smith's boyfriend, Howard K. Stern walks out of court (++MUTE++)

STORYLINE

Lawyers battling for the remains of former glamour model Anna Nicole Smith are now fighting the clock.

US Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin has set a self-imposed Friday morning deadline to issue a decision in the case, which boils down to a tug-of-war between Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur and her lawyer-turned-boyfriend Howard K. Stern, who wants a burial in the Bahamas.

A third figure in the dispute is Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, who is subject to a paternity test as he claims to be the father of Smith's five-month-old daughter, Dannielynn.

Arthur and Birkhead have both testified that the starlet said she wanted to be buried in California, not the plots in the Bahamas or Texas that have been the focus of the fierce weeklong legal debate.

Birkhead told the Florida hearing on Wednesday that he thought Smith should be buried close to where Dannielynn will be living and he was adamant this would be in California with him.

"The problem that I am having with it is that I am a California resident and if and when I get the daughter that I know and believe is mine, she won't live in the Bahamas, so is that a place that she is going to have to travel to go see her brother and her mother's grave," Birkhead said.

Judge Seidlin indicated earlier on Wednesday that he wanted to broker a compromise between Arthur and Stern.

The Florida hearing is just one part of the legal battle surrounding Smith.

At issue in a California court is who fathered Dannielynn, who could inherit millions of dollars depending on how

Smith's estate is broken up.

Stern is listed as the father on the birth certificate, but Birkhead says the girl is his.

SHOTLIST:

AP Television

Ocala, Florida - 24 April 2008

1. Various of US actor Wesley Snipes arriving at courthouse

2. Unidentified man leaving courthouse

3. Close-up of courthouse sign; pan to entrance of courthouse

4. Prosecutors walking out of courthouse

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert O'Neill, US Attorney:

"The sentencing court sent the right message to the American taxpayer, you've got to pay your taxes. I mean rich, poor, it doesn't matter, we all pay our taxes. If you got a dispute with the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), contact them and do it through lawful means but you have to pay your taxes."

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) M. Scotland Morris, Assistant US Attorney:

"Tax protest has both a legitimate and illegitimate aspect to it. The legitimate aspect is someone who goes and arguably states for ideological reasons or whatnot, they don't owe taxes. Tax defiers actually turn that into conduct, when it goes beyond the realm of thought into actual action, then it becomes tax defiance."

7. Various of Snipes leaving courthouse and driving away

3-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOR WESLEY SNIPES

American actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison on tax charges on Thursday (24APR), a victory for prosecutors who sought to make an example of the action star by aggressively pursuing the maximum penalty.

Snipes' lawyers had spent much of the day in court offering dozens of letters from family members, friends - even fellow actors Woody Harrelson and Denzel Washington - attesting to the good character of the "Blade" star and asking for leniency.

They argued he should get only probation because his three convictions were all misdemeanours and the actor had no previous criminal record.

But US District Judge William Terrell Hodges said Snipes exhibited a "history of contempt over a period of time" for US tax laws, and granted prosecutors the three year sentence they requested - one year for each of Snipes' convictions of willfully failing to file a tax return.

Snipes apologised while reading from a written statement for his "costly mistakes," but never mentioned the word taxes.

Snipes said he was an idealistic, naive, passionate, truth-seeking, spiritually motivated artist, unschooled in the science of law and finance.

Outside the courthouse US attorney Rovert O'Neill was adamant it was the right verdict.

"The sentencing court sent the right message to the American taxpayer, you've got to pay your taxes. I mean rich, poor, it doesn't matter, we all pay our taxes. If you got a dispute with the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), contact them and do it through lawful means but you have to pay your taxes," O'Neill said.

Snipes was the highest-profile criminal tax target in years, and prosecutors called for a heavy sentence to deter others from trying to obstruct the IRS.

The government alleged Snipes made at least 13.8 (m) million US dollars for the years in question and owed 2.7 (m) million US dollars in back taxes.

Snipes was acquitted in February of five additional charges, including felony tax fraud and conspiracy.

Snipes' co-defendants, Douglas P. Rosile and Eddie Ray Kahn, were convicted on both those counts.

Kahn, who refused to defend himself in court, was sentenced to 10 years, while Rosile received 54 months.

Both will serve three years of supervised release.

Snipes will serve one year of supervised release.

Snipes and Rosile remain free and will be notified when they are to surrender to authorities.

Snipes maintained in a year-long battle with the IRS he did not have to pay taxes, using fringe arguments common to "tax protesters" who say the government has no legal right to collect.

After the verdict, Assistant US Attorney, M. Scotland Morris explained the law on tax protest.

"Tax protest has both a legitimate and illegitimate aspect to it. The legitimate aspect is someone who goes and arguably states for ideological reasons or whatnot, they don't owe taxes. Tax defiers actually turn that into conduct, when it goes beyond the realm of thought into actual action, then it becomes tax defiance," Morris said.

Criminal tax prosecutions are relatively rare in the US, usually the cases are handled in civil court, where the government has a lower burden of proof.

STORYLINE:

South Korean police on Friday (2nd December) questioned Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Jung Ho Kang over an alleged drink driving accident.

SCRIPTING INFORMATION:

Police in South Korea are investigating Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Jung Ho Kang for allegedly crashing a luxury car while driving under the influence of alcohol and then leaving the scene.

Police are also investigating whether Kang asked a friend to falsely report who was driving the vehicle when the accident occurred early Friday morning, according to an official at Seoul's Gangnam district police station who spoke on condition of anonymity.

According to police, Kang didn't stop after driving a rented BMW into a guardrail at around 2:48 a.m. while returning to his hotel in southern Seoul.

The crash damaged the guardrail, and the vehicle, and the debris hit a car parked nearby. The person in the parked car reported the matter to police.

A 29-year-old man who was in Kang's vehicle initially claimed to be the driver. But police questioned Kang after the vehicle's security camera showed him driving it.

Police said Kang's blood alcohol level at the time of the crash would have been 0.084 percent, beyond the country's 0.05 percent legal limit.

Kang has so far denied asking or intimidating the friend into falsely reporting to police, the police official said.

Pirates President Frank Coonelly issued a statement saying the club was aware of the serious charges filed against Kang and were "extremely disappointed".

Kang hit 21 home runs and 62 RBIs in 103 games in 2016, but his second season in the majors also included an off-the-field incident in Chicago in June when a 23-year-old woman reported being assaulted by Kang at a hotel.

The woman's name has not been released and Kang has not been charged.

FILE/Bradenton, Florida, USA. 27th February 2016

1. 00:00 Various, Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Jung-ho Kang at spring training

SOURCE: SNTV

DUR: 00:57

SHOTLIST:

AP TELEVISION

1. Photographers falling over as Howard K. Stern walks towards the court, surrounded by media

2. Various of Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur, getting out of vehicle and walking towards court surrounded by media

POOL

3. Smith's ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead inside courtroom

4. Virgie Arthur and Birkhead hug

5. Wide of courtroom as Judge Larry Seidlin walks in

6. Close up of Virgie Arthur

POOL

7. Howard K. Stern walks up to witness stand and takes oath

8. Cutaway of people in courtroom

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's Attorney

"She was my best friend, my lover, the mother of my daughter, everything to me, literally everything, the whole world."

10. Wide of Stern, sitting in the witness chair

11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's Attorney

"I actually, at the time, was trying to convince Anna that maybe it would be better if Daniel were laid to rest in Los Angeles. And Anna was very firm, very firm, on the Bahamas was her home, that's where she wanted to raise Dannielynn, and she wanted Daniel to be near her. And she was pretty firm on that decision."

12. Wide shot of courtroom

POOL

13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's Attorney

''She had the people open the casket and she was just inconsolable and hugging Daniel and grabbing on to him and she wanted to go down with Daniel right then. She said if Daniel has to be buried I want to be buried with him.''

14. Wide of courtroom

15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Larry Seidlin, Circuit Judge:

''It would help the court if I knew who the natural father was to speak on behlaf of Dannielynn. It would help me, help me tremendously.''

16. Wide of court, UPSOUND: (English) Larry Seidlin, Circuit Judge:

''Right now the moment's not right so I am going to proceed in this trial without that bit of evidence coming in. I am going to proceed. There is still plenty here to help me decide what to do and where to go.''

ANNA NICOLE COURT HEARING

Anna Nicole Smith wanted to be buried next to her son in the Bahamas, where she lived, her companion testified on Tuesday in the latest round of legal battles surrounding the model's death.

Smith's boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and her estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, were in a Florida court arguing about what to do with her remains.

Stern testified Smith was adamant about burying her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, in the Bahamas, where he died just days after Smith's daughter was born there in September.

''She had the people open the casket and she was just inconsolable and hugging Daniel and grabbing on to him and she wanted to go down with Daniel right then. She said, 'if Daniel has to be buried I want to be buried with him.''

Without written proof of Smith's own wishes, Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin is forced to hear testimony from those who claim to know what Smith wanted.

Arthur wants Smith brought home to her native Texas, insisting that despite their estrangement, she has the right to bury her own daughter, not a man to whom Smith was not even married.

Smith's mother has a perhaps unlikely ally in Larry Birkhead, Smith's ex-boyfriend, who delayed a decision on the star's burial by fighting for another DNA sample he hopes will prove he is his baby's father.

He was expected to testify for Arthur.

Stern, who was ordered to be in court, testified Smith, ''was my best friend, lover, the mother of my daughter, everything to me.''

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, the dispute over who is the father of five-month-old Dannielynn was scheduled to be take place in a closed-door hearing.

Stern is named father on the girl's birth certificate but Birkhead and Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, have filed a separate paternity challenges.

The former Playboy playmate died in Florida on February 8 at the age of 39. The cause of death is under investigation.

Smith was the widow of Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, whom she married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26.

She had been fighting his family over his estimated five hundred (m) million fortune since his death in 1995.

SHOTLIST:

AP Television

1. Various of Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's attorney and boyfriend, arriving at court

2. Various of Larry Birkhead, Smith's ex-boyfriend, arriving at court

3. Various of Virgie Arthur, Smith's estranged mother, arriving at court

POOL

4. Birkhead taking the stand

5. Arthur in court

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Larry Birkhead, Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend:

"At times I took her medicine and I was told by Mr Stern (referring to Howard K. Stern) to give it back to her because she needed it to live. And in addition to that I just told her over and over I said, 'don't, something's going to happen to you, something's going to happen."

7. Arthur in court

8. Stern in court

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Larry Birkhead, Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend:

"You don't know how many times I had to help her and to carry her back and forwards to make sure she was okay and sometimes I didn't even know if she was going to live. And they kept bringing more and more drugs in the house and."

10. Wide of courtroom

ANNA NICOLE BODY BATTLE CONTINUES

For a week, attorneys battling for the remains of Anna Nicole Smith have fought with one another, fought off the media and fought for a chance to speak.

Now their biggest fight is against the clock.

On Thursday circuit judge Larry Seidlin set a self-imposed Friday morning deadline to issue a decision in the case, which boils down to a tug-of-war between Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, who wants to bring her daughter's body home to Texas, and her attorney-turned-boyfriend Howard K. Stern, who wants a burial in the Bahamas.

Seidlin said he has no time to waste since the county's chief medical examiner warned again that a decision needs to be made soon before Smith's body becomes too decomposed for a public viewing.

Seidlin indicated at the start of testimony on Wednesday that he wanted to reach a compromise agreement, but it was unclear what that might be.

Wednesday's hearing stretched past the official close of the courthouse and had no shortage of drama.

The testimony was peppered with details of Smith's drug use, her sexual liaisons and the deals being pursued to profit from the deaths of the starlet and her son.

When court resumed on Thursday, Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead - who like Stern claims to be the father of 5-month-old child, Dannielynn - continued to be questioned on the witness stand.

Birkhead testified that he was deeply concerned about Smith's drug use, particularly after she told him she was pregnant with his child, which he claimed was in February of 2006.

Birkhead said at times, he took Smith's prescription medication away from her, but said he "was told by Mr Stern (referring to Howard K Stern) to give it back to her because she needed it to live."

"You don't know how many times I had to help her and to carry her back and forwards to make sure she was okay and sometimes I didn't even know if she was going to live,'' Birkhead added.

He also claimed that Howard K. Stern urged him repeatedly to deny that he was the father of Dannielynn, saying it would result in negative publicity for Anna Nicole Smith.

Both Stern and Birkhead claim to be the father of Dannielynn.

Stern is listed as the father on the birth certificate but Birkhead insists the baby is his.

As the fight over Anna Nicole's body moves forward in Florida, the battle over paternity is taking place in another courtroom across the country in California.

Seidlin has not been tasked with determining which man is the father but he has repeatedly said his decision will be based on what is best for Dannielynn.

Smith died February 8 in a Florida hotel, but the cause is still unknown.

SHOTLIST:

POOL

Fort Lauderdale, Florida - 22 February 2007

1. Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin walks back into courtroom after short recess, sits down

2. Cutaway of Howard K. Stern and lawyer

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Larry Seidlin, Circuit Judge:

"Based on the court's review, and an analysis of argument, testimony and materials presented to it, the court orders and adjudges as follows: Dannielynn's motion is granted; Stern's verified petition is denied; Arthur's motion to dismiss is denied as moot; Arthur's cross petition is denied. Richard Milstein, Esquire, as a Guardian ad Litem (guardian at law) for Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern is awarded custody of the remains of Anna Nicole Smith."

5. Cutaway of Howard K. Stern with his head on the table, zoom into (Anna Nicole Smith's mother) Virgie Arthur hand covering her face

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin (off camera - overlaid by wide of court room pan up from Stern to Arthur):

"You'll read it, but I want her buried, I want her buried with her son. There's no shouting, this is not a happy moment. I want her buried with her son in the Bahamas. I want them to be together."

7. Wide of courtroom with Seidlin at his bench

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin:

"And they're going to work out the logistics and the details with mother and the two gentlemen here. And I hope to God you guys give the kid the right shot. (includes zoom in as Judge becomes emotional)"

9. Wide of court adjourning, zoom in to lawyers

WSVN - No Access Miami/Mandatory Courtesy: WSVN

Hollywood, Florida - 8 February 2007

10. Anna Nicole Smith's body being taken on a stretcher into the medical examiner's office

AP Entertainment

Los Angeles, California - 7 August 2005

11. Anna Nicole Smith on red carpet

STORYLINE:

Anna Nicole Smith is to be buried in the Bahamas, alongside her dead son, it was announced Thursday after a tearful judge left the decision up to the guardian for the model's baby daughter.

Richard Milstein, the court-appointed guardian of five-month-old Dannielynn, announced the plans not long after a judge gave him control of Smith's final resting place. He gave no timeframe for the burial.

Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin's ruling came a full two weeks after Smith died at a Florida hotel aged 39 of still-undetermined causes.

It followed warnings by the medical examiner that Smith's body was rapidly decomposing.

Announcing his decision, the judge, who was visibly distressed, told the court: "I want her to be buried with her son in the Bahamas. I want them to be together."

Smith's companion Howard K. Stern had wanted her to be buried next to her son Daniel, who died of apparent drug-related causes last year, while Smith's mother Virgie Arthur wanted her back in the family plot in Texas.

Stern sat hunched over a table with his hands folded as he awaited Seidlin's ruling and he wiped away tears with a tissue after the order. Arthur covered her eyes.

Before the Florida ruling, two consecutive witnesses called by Arthur's lawyers unexpectedly acknowledged that the starlet should be buried in the Bahamas next to her late son Daniel.

The statements by Ford Shelley, who claims to own the Bahamas home where Smith lived with Stern, and Billy Smith, Daniel's biological father, were a surprise.

Billy Smith, talking to the court via a speaker-phone, said he did not want his son to be exhumed as Arthur has said she wanted to do and that Anna Nicole and her son should be buried "side by side".

Smith died February 8 in a Florida hotel, but the cause is still unknown.

The dispute over the burial was one of many surrounding the former Playboy model.

Stern is listed as Dannielynn's father on the birth certificate, but Smith's ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, has said that he is the father.

Before he adjourned his court, Judge Seidlin urged the two men to "give the kid the right shot".

Shortly before he announced his verdict, the judge pressed Stern and Birkhead to submit to a DNA test to find out who the father is.

A judge in California is currently handling the paternity case.

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1. Various of Howard K. Stern arriving at courthouse

2. Various of Larry Birkhead arriving at courthouse

3. Various of Virgie Arthur arriving at courthouse

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4. Larry Birkhead walks up to witness chair in courtroom, sits down

5. Cutaway of Virgie Arthur in courtroom

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Larry Birkhead, Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend:

"At times I took her medicine and I was told by Mr. Stern to give it back to her because she needed it to live. And, in addition to that, I just told her over and over, I said, 'don't, something is going to happen to you, something is going to happen."

7. Cutaway of Arthur, pan down to Stern with head in hands

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Larry Birkhead, Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend:

"You don't know how many times I had to help her and to carry her back and forth to make sure she was okay, sometimes I didn't even know if she was going to live. And they kept bringing more and more drugs in the house."

9. Wide shot of Birkhead on stand during hearing

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10. Pan across courtroom, UPSOUND: (English) Larry Seidlin, Florida Circuit Judge:

"Now stay with me. Then we have Stern. Is he a bad guy or is he a fellow that has some form of a love for her? We don't know. It's a fact that will come out way beyond this hearing. But whatever relationship he had with her, he would be called maybe an enabler, because he lived...Your objection is still noted."

11. Defence witness, a friend of Smith's on stand, AUDIO: commotion, pan to security officials rushing over to area where lawyers are seated, everyone stands up as camera pans back and forth

FRIDAY DEADLINE FOR DECISION OVER THE BODY OF ANS

For a week, lawyers battling over the remains of former model Anna Nicole Smith have fought with one another, fought off the media and fought for a chance to speak.

Now their biggest fight is against the clock.

Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin has set a self-imposed Friday morning deadline to issue a decision in the case.

It boils down to a tug-of-war between Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, who wants to bring her daughter's body home to Texas, and her attorney-turned-boyfriend Howard K. Stern, who wants a burial in the Bahamas.

Seidlin said he has no time to waste since the county's chief medical examiner warned again that a decision needs to be made soon before Smith's body becomes too decomposed for a public viewing.

Seidlin indicated at the start of testimony on Wednesday that he wanted to reach a compromise agreement, but it was unclear what that might be.

Testimony over the past two days has been peppered with details of Smith's drug use, her sexual liaisons and the deals being pursued to profit from the deaths of the starlet and her son.

When court resumed on Thursday, Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead, who like Stern claims to be the father of 5-month-old child, Dannielynn, continued to be questioned about his relationship with the former model.

Birkhead testified that he was deeply concerned about Smith's drug use, particularly after she told him she was pregnant with his child, which he claimed was in February of 2006.

Birkhead said at times, he took Smith's prescription medication away from her, but said he "was told by Mr. Stern to give it back to her because she needed it to live."

He claimed Howard K. Stern urged him repeatedly to "deny that (he) was the father of" Dannielynn, saying it would result in negative publicity for Anna Nicole Smith.

Both Stern and Birkhead claim to be the father of Dannielynn. Stern is listed as the father on the birth certificate but Birkhead insists the baby is his.

In a long diatribe, Judge Seidlin said the centrefold lacked a strong support system and speculated her

relationships with estranged mother Virgie Arthur and ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead soured because of overuse of prescription drugs.

About Stern, Seidlin said, "Is he a bad guy or is he a fellow that has some form of a love for her? We don't know."

He then added, "Whatever relationship he had with her, he would be called maybe an enabler."

Stern's attorney, Krista Barth, rose in objection, but Seidlin continued in what promised to be a long day of testimony.

At one point in the proceedings the attorney for Virgie Arthur fainted, prompting the judge to call a halt to the session.

As the fight over Anna Nicole's body moves forward in Florida, the battle over paternity is taking place in another courtroom across the country in California.

Though he has not been tasked with determining which man is the father, Florida Judge Larry Seidlin has repeatedly said his decision will be based on what is best for Dannielynn.

Smith died February 8 in a Florida hotel, but the cause is still unknown.

File of Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez following his death in a boating accident on Sunday (25th September).

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The Miami Marlins have announced the death of ace right-hander Jose Fernandez.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Fernandez was one of three people killed in a boat crash off Miami Beach early on Sunday.

The Marlins did not immediately release details, other than releasing a statement confirming the death of one of the top pitchers in baseball.

In the statement, the Marlins said they were "devastated by the tragic loss of Jose Fernandez. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this very difficult time."

The Marlins' game on Sunday at home against the Atlanta Braves has been cancelled.

Miami, Florida, USA - 24th April, 2015

1. 00:00 Various of Jose Fernandez during his naturalization ceremony to become an American citizen

SOURCE: SNTV

DURATION: 00:41