John Waters is a loon, always has been. Raised in the “tyranny of good taste,” he was part-Wicked Witch of the West and part-Baltimore suburbia hophead, smoking his weight in pot and submitting to the ...

Artist Amy Sherald has emerged as a hero in the LGBTQ community following her controversial decision to pull her blockbuster new exhibit “American Sublime” from the National Portrait Gallery in D.C.

Cinephile alert: One of Baltimore’s marquee annual arts events, the Maryland Film Festival, returns next week to the Parkway Theatre for five days of thought-provoking films and celebrity ...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday convicted an Illinois sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder, a lesser charge, in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to report a ...

An Illinois jury on Wednesday convicted a former sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a black woman who called 911 asking for help. The jurors, though, did ...

PEORIA — A downstate jury convicted a white ex-cop of second-degree murder Wednesday for fatally shooting Sonya Massey in a verdict that bitterly disappointed family members of the slain, unarmed ...

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Sean Grayson was charged with murder in the 2024 death of Sonya Massey, who was holding a pot of hot water when she was shot at her home near Springfield, Ill. By Mike Bailey and Mitch Smith Mike ...

The expert, Lewis Deckmurray, examined body camera video frame by frame. It's from the night Grayson shot and killed Sonya Massey last year in her Springfield home. Deckmurray said Grayson made ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. All the world loves a clown. Except, not really—just as much ...