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Actress Winona Ryder trashed President Donald Trump while promoting her new HBO limited series The Plot Against America, saying that the past few years have been “a mind boggling like nightmare.” Ryder told Variety at the show’s red carpet premiere in New York on Wednesday that she signed on to the project because the story is “so incredibly timely.”

A Michigan dog owner was surprised to find out that the state approved his German shepherd for weekly unemployment benefits. The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency sent a letter to lawyer Michael Haddock saying that a Michael Ryder was approved to receive $360 a week in unemployment, reports ABC News. The only problem is that Ryder is Haddock’s German shepherd. The letter claimed that Michael Ryder worked at a restaurant chain in Detroit, Michigan. “I’m not sure what he’s going to do with the money,” Haddock said.

I can't believe we have no Ryder Cup thread open on the final day. Both teams are pouring in birdies by the bushel. I have never seen such fantastic golf.

PEORIA — Ryder has canceled all truck rentals for the coming week due to credible but unconfirmed threats of terrorist attacks in the wake of the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

A customer who did not want to be identified told the Journal Star that she had been informed by Ryder of the cancellation by phone call Friday. A Ryder representative told the Journal Star all local rentals for the weekend had been canceled, though that person declined to elaborate on the reason.

Further questions were referred to the head of rentals for the local arm of the company. That person did not...

AP Special Correspondent   (enlarge photo) Actress Winona Ryder appears at Beverly Hills Superior Court April 7, 2003 in Beverly Hills, Calif. for a progress report following her conviction for shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. Ryder was commended by a judge Monday, Dec.15, 2003, for abiding by the rules of her probation in a shoplifting case. (AP Photo/Mel Bouzad, Pool) BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Actress Winona Ryder was commended by a judge Monday for abiding by the rules of her probation in a shoplifting case.Ryder's lawyer, Shepard Kopp, said outside court that the judge plans to review...

<p>In the latest example of art imitating life, a group of high school students has created a musical based on Winona Ryder's shoplifting trial.</p> <p>Point Loma High School's Sticky Fingers: A Tale of Saks, Lies and Videotape satirizes the trial last fall in which the Oscar-nominated actress was convicted of taking about $6,000 worth of items from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills.</p>

Heroin will kill Winona Drugs claims ... Winona with her lawyer yesterdayFrom EVA SIMPSONin Los Angeles MOVIE star Winona Ryder is a heroin user who could overdose and die, a shock police report claimed last night. A detective warned the judge at Winona’s shoplifting hearing that if the actress didn’t get help she could be found dead “with a needle in her arm”. The file was released as Winona, 31, appeared for sentence. She was let off jail, but was given probation and community service. She was also ordered to undergo drug and psychological counselling. The 28-page probation report...

Prosecutors want a Los Angeles judge to sentence Winona Ryder to three years probation, direct the actress to pay fines and restitution in excess of $25,000, and order her to cooperate with probation officials in developing "a plan for both drug and psychiatric counseling," according to a new Los Angeles Superior Court filing. The below sentencing memorandum, filed yesterday (12/2) by deputy district attorney Ann Rundle, also asks Judge Elden Fox (who is scheduled to sentence Ryder this Friday) to order the actress to serve 480 hours of community service and to cease using aliases, specifically the handle "Emily Thompson."...

Here is a story of two trials and how they were covered in the news. Or not covered. You tell me what it says about the media's twisted values. The first trial was held in Beverly Hills. The accused was Hollywood starlet Winona Ryder, charged with shoplifting ... Meanwhile, in unglamorous Wichita, Kan., the eight-week trial of Jonathan and Reginald Carr came to a close. The brothers were found guilty of four counts of capital murder ... If you read the New York Times or The Washington Post or watched the evening news this week, the Wichita Massacre never happened....

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - A Beverly Hills judge on Tuesday delayed setting a trial date for Oscar nominated actress Winona Ryder, who is accused of shoplifting $6,000 worth of goods from the Saks Fifth Avenue department store last December. Instead of setting a date for trial, as had been expected, Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox set an Aug. 26 date for pretrial motions on what evidence could be admitted during the eventual trial. Fox said he would set a trial date within 30 days of that hearing. Ryder, 30, the star of the 1999 film, "Girl, Interrupted," has...

I have meet with an interesting dilemma...I had a U-Haul rental truck reserved (with a confirmation number) for a month. Today, I received a telephone and told that I could not get a truck; that there were none available, even though I had a confirmation number guaranteeing me a truck for use on Saturday. The long and short of the matter is that I scrambled to find another truck. Well, it came as a shock to find there was not a single truck for rent in a 50 mile radius of my location. In fact, I check numerous places throughout...

Newsweek: The District Attorney's Office Has Evidence That Purportedly Shows Previous Shoplifting Incidents by Ryder, Newsweek Has Learned -- Jokes on SNL in Poor Taste; 'Nobody Is Going to Write a Script for Them If They Get Caught Shoplifting' Says Top Star Story Filed: Sunday, June 09, 2002 10:07 AM EST NEW YORK, Jun 09, 2002 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The district attorney's office in Los Angeles has evidence that purportedly shows Dec. 12 wasn't actress Winona Ryder's first shoplifting incident (though she's never been charged before), Newsweek has learned. Ryder was arrested on Dec. 12 at an L.A....