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Cops rushed to the Florida home of O.J. Simpson after his eldest daughter knocked him to the ground in a brawl over his girlfriend Christie Prody, sources said. "Arnelle had a fight with Christie over Christie's behavior. That's what started the whole thing," a source told the Daily News. "Christie has some problems with drinking, and Arnelle got mad. O.J. said 'Don't talk to her like that,' and Arnelle pushed him." The source said Arnelle, 39, called 911 in a fit of guilt after she toppled the 61-year-old on Sunday, giving him a minor head injury. The police report does...

Site pulls slogan after controversy Committeeman linked Obama to O.J. Simpson By David Maccar; Editor A Pemberton GOP committeeman came under heavy scrutiny last week after it was discovered he posted a slogan linking presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama to O.J. Simpson on what was called "The Official Website of the Pemberton Township Republicans."The slogan, "Obama Loves America like O.J. Loved Nicole," referring to retired NFL star and his late ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, was denounced by many as racist. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murder of Brown and her boyfriend Ronald Goldman in 1994, but was...

TRENTON, N.J. - A local Republican Club in New Jersey has removed a slogan from its Web site that read, "Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole." The Pemberton Republican Club removed the slogan after Democrats alleged racist campaign tactics. The club's Web master, Ed Kuck, tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that he saw the slogan on an Internet site and copied it onto the club's Web page as a joke. The chairman of the Burlington County Democratic Committee says comparing Obama to O.J. Simpson was reprehensible.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson says an ambitious Nevada prosecutor is pressing a kidnapping and armed robbery case against him that he says even the alleged victims don't want to pursue. "If I was anybody else, I wouldn't be going to court," Simpson told a reporter for Fargo, N.D., radio station KFGO who interviewed him late Tuesday at a Fargo cigar bar. Simpson was vacationing in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. "How many trials have you ever heard of where both of the victims say they don't want this guy to go to jail, they don't want to...

(CBS) O.J. Simpson's girlfriend, who had been hospitalized in February after a fall, was back in the hospital, this time with two broken legs and other serious injuries, CBS4 in Miami reported. Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Pat Santangelo said Christie Prody was injured early Saturday morning on the Don Shula Expressway near Miller Drive after she pulled over to an emergency lane because she had two flat tires on her 2-door Mitsubishi. Police say she rode on the flat tires for quite a distance because one of the tires was completely shredded and the other had come off the rim...

LAS VEGAS (AP) _ A man who says he was held up by O.J. Simpson and several other men in a Las Vegas hotel room was arrested on a parole violation Wednesday after a key witness in the case accused him of making threats, authorities said. Alfred Beardsley was taken into custody by parole officials in Santa Ana, Calif., said Jerome Marsh, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Beardsley is accused of violating a parole condition imposed in January prohibiting him from contacting collectibles broker Thomas Riccio, Marsh said. Riccio _ who arranged the Sept. 13...

A judge has agreed to delay O.J. Simpson's trial on armed robbery and kidnapping charges to September, defense lawyers said Friday. Simpson lawyer Yale Galanter and attorney John Moran Jr., representing co-defendant Charles Ehrlich emerged from a pre-hearing meeting with Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass and said the judge agreed to give them more time to prepare for trial. The judge took the bench minutes later and began hearing challenges to the charges against the former football star and arguments about whether co-defendants Ehrlich and Clarence "C.J." Stewart should be tried separately. Glass said she would issue her...

O.J. Simpson's girlfriend Christie Prody was hospitalized Tuesday in Miami for what police are calling a "severe head injury," Entertainment Tonight has reported. An anonymous caller reported a woman falling and was taken by Fire Rescue to Baptist Hospital of Miami with a severe head injury, according to a police report obtained by the television show.

So OJ's former agent is publishing a book "How I Helped OJ Get Away with Murder." Mike Gilbert was Simpson's sports agent for 18 years. Now he's really cashing in. The story says "Some of the proceeds from the book have been pledged to the Make-a-Wish foundation." Just some? That's Gilbert's way of diverting attention from his blatant attempt to make money off of his low-life, creepy efforts to put a murderer back on the streets. "Some proceeds" isn't repentance. How about all? How about begging for forgiveness from the families crushed first by the murder of their children then...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - No matter how O.J. Simpson's hotel-room robbery trial plays out, he can plan on seeing Fred Goldman's lawyers in court again. A taciturn 66-year-old whose gray hair and handlebar mustache have made him familiar to followers of the Simpson saga, Goldman speaks forcefully but rarely angrily when he talks of hounding the former football star he believes stabbed his son, Ron Goldman, and Simpson's ex-wife to death in 1994. "Our intent is to continue to pursue him, to continue to hold him accountable and responsible for Ron's murder," he said during a recent phone interview from...

November 16, 2007, 0:00 p.m. SmileWhat all celebs can learn from O. J. Simpson. By Michael Long O.J. Simpson has learned at least one thing in the 13 years between his arrests: When they take your mug shot, smile. The mug shot is the ignominious I.D., captured at a moment when the subject is, all at once, shamed, humbled, frustrated, fearful, and usually at a record low of dishevelment. The mug shot is supposed to be just a bureaucratic record. In practice, however, it is punishment for being a suspect at all. Say what you want about “innocent until...

In recent times, Al Gore has been in the winner's circle. From the Oscar to the Nobel to NBC's adoring Green Week, Al has known nothing but triumph. Imagine his chagrin, then, to learn that in one important category he has lost out to none other than . . . O.J. Simpson.

LAS VEGAS - O.J. Simpson must face trial on kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges stemming from an alleged sports memorabilia heist, a justice of the peace ruled Wednesday. Justice of the Peace Joe M. Bonaventure ruled after a preliminary hearing of the charges and arguments against the case by attorneys for Simpson and co-defendants Clarence "C.J." Stewart and Charles "Charlie" Ehrlich. "This is what we expected," Simpson told The Associated Press before he left the courtroom. "If I have any disappointment it's that I wish a jury was here. As always, I rely on the jury system." No charges...

LOS ANGELES - Federal agents learned three weeks in advance that O.J. Simpson and a memorabilia dealer planned an operation to retrieve personal items Simpson said were stolen from him, according to FBI reports obtained Friday by The Associated Press. Dealer Thomas Riccio told FBI agents Aug. 21 that Simpson wanted to televise the operation as he confronted a collector who was peddling thousands of pieces of Simpson's memorabilia.

LAS VEGAS - A man whose lawyer says he can testify that O.J. Simpson asked him to bring guns to a confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers told a judge on Monday that he’ll accept a plea deal and testify against Simpson and two other men. Michael McClinton, 49, of Las Vegas, became the third man to agree to plead guilty to reduced charges in return for his testimony. He told Justice of the Peace Joe M. Bonaventure he will plead guilty to robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. He could receive probation or up to 11 years in prison....

LAS VEGAS - Two co-defendants pleaded guilty to reduced charges Tuesday in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case, agreeing to testify against Simpson and three others in the alleged hotel room theft of sports collectibles from two memorabilia dealers. "Guilty, sir," said Walter Alexander, who pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy to commit robbery. Charles Cashmore pleaded guilty to felony accessory to robbery during a separate arraignment minutes later before Clark County District Court Hearing Master Kevin Williams.

It's a True Crime post and we've got a dentist desperately trying to justify his breast rubs as necessary to help nightime teeth grinding. Also, a child in trouble for committing graffitti for drawing on sidewalk with chalk. Twenty years later the cold case unit discovers who beat little Patricia Lopez to death. It was her own brother and his family defends him! He died during a sexual bondage episode. Is this really a crime? Finally, what's the latest on OJ?

A second co-defendant in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case said Monday that he will plead guilty to a reduced charge and testify against Simpson and four others in the alleged hotel room theft of sports collectibles from two memorabilia dealers. Walter Alexander, 46, of Mesa, Ariz., told a judge he will plead guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery, a felony. He could face between one and six years in prison. Outside the courtroom, Alexander and his lawyers declined to say what testimony he will provide. Earlier Monday, Charles Cashmore, 40, of Las Vegas, told the same judge that he...

LAS VEGAS — A co-defendant in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case told a judge Monday he would plead guilty to a felony and testify against Simpson and four others in the hotel room theft of sports collectibles from two memorabilia dealers.The plea agreement with Charles Cashmore, 40, of Las Vegas, ups the ante in the prosecution of Simpson. Cashmore can testify that guns were involved in the Sept. 13 confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas casino hotel room, his lawyer said.

LAS VEGAS — A co-defendant in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case told a judge today he would plead guilty to a felony and testify against Simpson and four others in the hotel room theft of sports collectibles from two memorabilia dealers. The plea agreement with Charles Cashmore, 40, of Las Vegas ups the ante in the prosecution of Simpson. Cashmore can testify that guns were involved in the Sept. 13 confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas casino hotel room, his lawyer said. Simpson and his lawyers have denied guns were in the room. "In District...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - O.J. Simpson must hand over a Rolex watch and other assets to satisfy a civil judgment that found him liable for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, a judge ruled Tuesday. Any future royalties from a sports video game featuring Simpson also must be delivered to Goldman's father, Fred Goldman, Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg ruled. Simpson must also surrender any of the disputed memorabilia items recently seized by Las Vegas authorities that are found to be legally his. The items would then be auctioned by the Los Angeles...

We’ll get to the latest ethically-blind, unintentional humor at Duke University in a moment. Let’s begin with the same thing as demonstrated in the $70 million case Dan Rather just filed against CBS. The theory of American law is that adversaries – plaintiff and defendant in a civil case – will contest facts, witnesses and experts before the trier of fact (judge or jury) and truth will result. It is not just people like me who’ve been attorneys forever, but also laymen who read the papers, who know this theory sometimes fails in practice. The theory will fail on purpose...

TMZ has obtained an audiotape recorded one hour after O.J.Simpson and his crew allegedly robbed two men in a Las Vegas hotel room. An hour after the incident, Bruce Fromong, a sports memorabilia dealer and an alleged victim, can be heard ranting, "Nobody puts a gun in my f****n' face. I stood up for that motherf***er in -- in while he was in jail. I stood up for him in the press. I stood up for him on the, on the stand. I helped him set up his f***in' offshore accounts. Don't f**k with me." If true, this could be...

This is a rush transcript from "The Big Story With John Gibson," September 18, 2007. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.JOHN GIBSON, "BIG STORY" CO-HOST: He says his best man's arrest ruined his wedding. Tom Scotto and his wife renewed their wedding vows in a casino chapel in Vegas this weekend and O.J. was the best man. Scotto was one of the men police named in connection with the alleged armed robbery, but he maintains he was not involved. It is a "Big Story" exclusive. Thomas Scotto is live on the phone from...

COOPER: How much money has O.J. Simpson made off memorabilia, do you think? GILBERT: Just when he was in jail, probably a couple of million dollars. We signed autographs about every day for a year-and-a-half. COOPER: Every day for a year-and-a-half while he was in jail, you and he signed autographs, and you think he made more than $1 million or several million dollars? GILBERT: Oh, he would have to have, yes. COOPER: And, you know, obviously, there was a judgment against him that was supposed to go to the Goldman family and also the Brown family, the Brown estate....

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The first time, with the white Bronco and the glove and the bloodied Brentwood mansion walkway, America reeled. The man accused of murder wasn't our O.J. Simpson, the former football hero, occasional Hollywood actor and irresistibly charming rental car pitchman. But this time, as news spread that Simpson had been arrested last weekend and charged in a Las Vegas armed robbery, people weren't only ready for it - they absolutely reveled in it. Though a Los Angeles jury found Simpson not guilty in 1995, the justice system that is the blogosphere in 2007 issued its verdict, swiftly, surely and...

RFFM.org Commentary by Daniel T. Zanoza As former New York Yankee Hall of Famer Yogi Berra might say, it sounds like deja vu all over again. Of course, Yogi would be talking about O.J. Simpson, once again, being charged with a violent crime while he sits in the Las Vegas County Jail. Well, Yogi didn't say it, but I did and, to tell the truth, this latest Simpson escapade has not caused me to shed any tears. Most certainly I do not find glee in the fact another human being is deeply troubled, but I have to confess there is...

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Channel 8 has just learned a fourth suspect, Michael McClinton, is being booked at the Clark County Detention Center. He surrendered through his attorney. Eyewitness News at 5 & 6 will have more.

OJ Simpson's prison conditions released By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles Last Updated: 2:35am BST 19/09/2007 OJ Simpson has traded a Las Vegas hotel room and leisurely mornings of golf for solitary confinement in a 7' by 14' cell, 4am wake-up calls, and just three to four hours of free time a day, also spent alone. Details of the prison conditions facing the fallen sporting legend were revealed by Las Vegas police, who arrested Simpson on Sunday at the city's Palms hotel for his alleged role in an armed robbery last week. The 60-year-old former American footballer is among 3,000...

Former American football star O.J. Simpson has been charged with eight offences, including kidnapping and armed robbery, court documents showed Tuesday. Simpson, an iconic sports star who was dramatically acquitted of brutally murdering his ex-wife and her friend 12 years ago, is to appear in court in Las Vegas on Wednesday for an arraignment hearing. The charges against Simpson and three other men were detailed in a criminal complaint filed by Nevada prosecutors in Clark County on Tuesday, following the fallen icon's arrest on Sunday in connection with an alleged armed robbery. Simpson and the men have been charged with...

LOS ANGELES - The Clark County district attorney filed eight charges, including kidnapping, against O.J. Simpson on Tuesday in an alleged armed robbery in a casino-hotel room. Also Tuesday, a judge gave Fred Goldman a week to come up with a list of items Simpson is accused of stealing, but he refused to order Simpson to hand over his earnings from everything from autograph signings to video games. (snip) He was being held without bail Tuesday in Clark County Detention Center on six felonies, including two counts of robbery with use of a deadly weapon.

One of the men accusing O.J. Simpson of robbing him last Thursday is in the hospital. A spokesperson for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles says Bruce Fromong is in the intensive care unit after suffering what's being described as a massive heart attack. News 3's Jesse Corona spoke with Bruce Fromong's neighbors who say they can hardly believe everything that's been happening. Before 53-year-old Bruce Fromong was an alleged victim in O.J. Simpson's personal sports memorabilia sting, he was an O.J. supporter. Fromong testified for Simpson's defense in the wrongful death case brought by Fred Goldman. He also somehow...

LOS ANGELES—O.J. Simpson's defense lawyer said Monday that prosecutors lack the evidence to prove that the former football star committed armed robbery and other felonies in a sports memorabilia dispute at a Las Vegas hotel. "We are definitely on the attack," Yale Galanter told The Associated Press. Galanter, a Miami attorney who flew to Las Vegas to appear on Simpson's behalf, said he would seek Simpson's release on his own recognizance. Simpson had offered to surrender to police even if he had to return from his home in Miami, but they chose to arrest him, Galanter said. "If it was...

LAS VEGAS - News conferences, a slew of felony charges, a perp walk in handcuffs and detention in a holding cell without bail — it's clear authorities aren't giving O.J. Simpson any celebrity breaks. Police insist such treatment is prudent for a man whose name is synonymous with a slow-speed chase from officers in a white Ford Bronco. But legal experts are questioning whether Simpson is being singled out for extra-tough prosecution in his casino-hotel robbery case as payback for his murder acquittal more than a decade ago. "It is regrettable that America has not gotten over the O.J. Simpson...

O.J. Arrested LAS VEGAS - Plainclothes officers arrested O.J. Simpson on charges connected with what police described as a robbery at a Las Vegas hotel. A judge ordered Simpson be held without bail, and a court date was set for Thursday. The seven felonies Simpson was charged with all revolve around the use of firearms, something Simpson strongly denied when questioned by reporters while being arrested: "Firearms? That's (expletive) ridiculous, everyone knows I'm a knife man." Madonna: "I'm an Ambassador for Judaism" JERUSALEM - Madonna toasted the Jewish new year with Israeli President Shimon Peres and declared herself an "ambassador...

LAS VEGAS — Police arrested O.J. Simpson on Sunday, saying he was part of an armed group who burst into a Las Vegas hotel room and snatched memorabilia that documented his own sports career, long ago eclipsed by scandal. The arrest starts a new legal odyssey for the fallen football star who more than a decade ago was acquitted of the slayings of his ex-wife and a friend, and opens the possibility he could spend decades behind bars. Simpson was taken away from The Palms hotel-casino by plainclothes officers a day after the arrest of a golfing buddy who police...

TMZ has obtained an audio tape of O.J. Simpson's confrontation with a sports memorabilia dealer that led to his arrest on felony robbery charges. In it, you hear someone say, "You against the motherf*****g wall." The tape was recorded by Thomas Riccio, who co-owns the auction house Universal Rarities. Riccio met up with Simpson just before the confrontation at the Palace Station Casino on Thursday night. We're told Riccio was on hand to help Simpson prove certain memorabilia being auctioned by Alfred Beardsley was ill-gotten. Riccio says he believed Simpson was going to confront Beardsley in the hotel room to...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police arrested O.J. Simpson on Sunday, saying he was part of an armed group who burst into a Las Vegas hotel room and snatched memorabilia that documented his own sports career, long ago eclipsed by scandal. The arrest starts a new legal odyssey for the fallen football star who more than a decade ago was acquitted of the slayings of his ex-wife and a friend, and opens the possibility he could spend decades behind bars. Simpson was taken away from The Palms casino-hotel by plainclothes officers a day after the arrest of a golfing buddy who...

As Simpson dodged reporter questions, he seemed to be whistling "If I Only Had a Brain" from the movie "The Wizard of Oz."

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LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas police said they've arrested O.J. Simpson on charges related to an armed robbery of sports memorabilia. The arrest came after another man was taken into custody in the alleged incident. Police said Walter Alexander was arrested on two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery and burglary with a deadly weapon. Two firearms were seized, police said. Simpson has said he was among several people who went to a casino hotel room this week. He said he'd hoped to retrieve some items that...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson was arrested Sunday and faces multiple felony charges in an alleged armed robbery of collectors involving the former football great's sports memorabilia, authorities said.

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson was arrested Sunday and charged with armed robbery in connection with the alleged robbery of a Las Vegas hotel room, police said Sunday. Earlier Sunday, Las Vegas police seized two firearms and arrested another man allegedly involved in the robbery of sports memorabilia involving Simpson, authorities said Sunday. The man, identified by Las Vegas police as Walter Alexander, was arrested Saturday night and charged with two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery and burglary with a deadly weapon.

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police seized two firearms and arrested one man in connection with an alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia involving O.J. Simpson, authorities said Sunday. Police say Simpson, who has not been arrested, is expected to be questioned again Sunday and may face arrest in the robbery, during which Simpson and at least two others allegedly robbed a hotel room of Simpson memorabilia dealers. The man, identified by Las Vegas police as Walter Alexander, was arrested Saturday night and charged with two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly...

A sports memorabilia collector who accused O.J. Simpson of armed robbery said Saturday that he was "on O.J.'s side" and wants the case dropped. "I want this thing to go away. I have health problems," said Alfred Beardsley, the collector who told police on Thursday that Simpson and several other men stormed a Las Vegas hotel room and stole memorabilia at gunpoint. Beardsley, of Burbank, Calif., told The Associated Press he is not interested in pursuing the case. "I have no desire to fly back and forth to Las Vegas to testify," he said. "How are they going to have...