“Walking Dead” actor quits social media after viewers send him death threats for character's decision

AMC/Gene Page(ATLANTA) -- For once and for all, Josh McDermitt only plays Eugene on The Walking Dead...he is not ACTUALLY Eugene. While it may seem like common sense, it's apparently news to some Walking Dead fans: the ones who have been sending so many death threats to the actor over Eugene's actions on the hit show that McDermitt has quit social media. For those unfamiliar with the series, lovable coward Eugene broke ranks with the "good […]

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Zoe Saldana hates heights, loves Kurt Russell, and thinks Chris Pratt is “delicious”

Marvel Studios - 2016(NEW YORK) -- Zoe Saldana reprises her role as lethal assassin Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, opening Friday. Despite her character's high-flying exploits, however, the actress told Good Morning America she has a fear of heights."If you're told to jump 30 feet and you have your wire and your wire has no tension and you're free-falling...you're thinking, 'Something went wrong ... it's over,'" Saldana […]

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Entertainment

First Look: Marvel’s “The Defenders”

Netflix - 2017(NEW YORK) -- Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones are ready to team up in Marvel's The Defenders on Netflix. The show centering on the four titular heroes from the streaming service doesn't debut until later this year -- August 18, judging from an earlier teaser-trailer -- but the first full-length trailer dropped today on YouTube and gives fans a peek into what to expect. And it's very encouraging, especially […]

May 4, 2017 19

Entertainment

First Look: Marvel's “The Defenders”

Netflix - 2017(NEW YORK) -- Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones are ready to team up in Marvel's The Defenders on Netflix. The show centering on the four titular heroes from the streaming service doesn't debut until later this year -- August 18, judging from an earlier teaser-trailer -- but the first full-length trailer dropped today on YouTube and gives fans a peek into what to expect. And it's very encouraging, especially […]

May 4, 2017 14

Entertainment

There are other worlds than these: “The Dark Tower” trailer premieres

© 2016 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved/Ilze Kitshoff (LOS ANGELES) -- Roland. Jake. The Man in Black. For decades, Stephen King fans have been reading about these characters in the best-selling author's Dark Tower fantasy series, encompassing eight books published between 1982 and 2012. Now, these characters and their story have come to life in the first trailer for The Dark Tower movie. The trailer introduces us to Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger in Mid-World, a parallel […]

May 4, 2017 15

National

Teacher accused of kidnapping student being transferred to Tennessee from California

scanrail/iStock/Thinkstock(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- Former Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins, who was discovered last month in a rural California cabin with 15-year-old student Elizabeth Thomas after a month on the run, is in the process of being transferred to Tennessee from California, ABC News has confirmed.Cummins, 50 -- accused of abducting Thomas -- is facing kidnapping and sex crime charges in Tennessee.Assistant federal defender Ben Galloway, based in Sacramento, California, told ABC […]

May 4, 2017 20

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Why Justice Department decided not to press charges against officers in Alton Sterling shooting death

jerry2313/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Federal prosecutors found insufficient evidence to charge either police officer involved in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, shooting death of Alton Sterling, the U.S. Justice Department announced today, as it laid out in a detailed statement how the department came to that decision.This federal investigation came after Sterling, an armed black man, was shot and killed on July 5, 2016, during an altercation with white police officers Blane Salamoni […]

May 4, 2017 7

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American University releases video of a person of interest in alleged banana hate crime investigation

The Washington Post/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- American University has released two surveillance videos in an effort to track down whoever committed what campus police called a "racially motivated hate crime,” one that left bananas hanging from string fashioned into nooses on campus.The videos were taken at around 4 a.m. Monday at the Washington, D.C., college, the police said, and show a figure moving through school property. The person's face is not […]

May 4, 2017 9

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North Lake College in Texas on lockdown due to active shooter, police say

iStock/Thinkstock(IRVING, Texas) -- Two people are dead at a college campus in Irving, Texas, in an apparent murder-suicide, police said.Within an hour of declaring an active shooter at North Lake College, the Irving Police Department said one victim is dead and the suspected shooter appears to have committed suicide.Police said they are no longer looking for a suspect as "there appears to be no continuing threat," but responding officers will […]

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