Title:Former ReporterEducation:The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), Indiana University of Pennsylvania Title:Former Reporter Education:The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), Indiana University of Pennsylvania Char Adams is a former reporter at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2019.Before joining PEOPLE in 2015, Char was a writer, editor and communications strategist for Black Women’s Blueprint, Inc. from 2018 to 2019. She also was a contributor at Bustle from 2016 to 2017, a writer at DailyMail....

Nine Perfect Strangers.Photo: hulu In the fourth episode, when they figure out that Marsha is dosing them and they confront her, she defends her choice, arguing that psilocybin “cures addiction, it can treat mental illness, it can treat PTSD, schizophrenia, dementia. It can make you eat better, sleep better, f— better, and it has the capacity to change the world.” While what Marsha is doing is completely illegal — both drugging her guests against their knowledge and having the drugs at all — there is some truth to her claims....

Amy Cooper.Photo: Christian Cooper/Facebook The single misdemeanor charge filed againstAmy Cooper, the white woman who called 911 on a Black man who asked her to leash her dog in a wooded area of New York City’s Central Park, has been dropped, according to multiple reports. The New York Post,CNN, andNBC Newswere in Manhattan Supreme Court for Tuesday’s hearing, during which the sole count against her — for falsely reporting an incident in the third degree — was dismissed....

Photo: Facebook Below is the original PEOPLE article on Beal’s arrest, published on May 17. The ex-boyfriend and business partner of a woman killed in an explosion at a day spa in California earlier this week has been taken into custody, PEOPLE confirms. He was officially charged Thursday afternoon, prosecutors said. Among the recovered items, authorities claim in the complaint, were two cardboard tubes described as similar to improvised explosives, with 30-inch fuses....

Jordan Brown was a fifth-grader in February 2009 when Pennsylvania police arrived to take him away as the sole suspect inthe shotgun slaying of his dad’s pregnant fiancée, Kenzie Houk. Owing in part to the discovery of a shotgun in the family home, near Wampum, as well as a shell casing outside and evidence of gunshot residue on his clothes, police zeroed in on 11-year-old Jordan. Houk’s 7-year-old daughter also said she had heard a loud noise in the house around the time of the shooting....

Photo: Abbie Parr/Getty Justin Herbert’s buzz cut generated lots of buzz on social media last year. While the 23-year-old Los Angeles Chargers quarterback may still be a fresh face to many fans, some recognize him thanks to his long, golden locks. But all that changed last November when Herbert showed up to a press conference with a radical new buzz cut. The dramatic change came courtesy of Chargers strength and conditioning coach John Lott, who told Herbert he had experience cutting hair....

Justin Herbert.Photo: Harry How/Getty Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has been named the2020 Pepsi Zero Sugar NFL Rookie of the Year. Herbert, 22, was chosen for the annual honor from five finalists, each selected for their outstanding performance throughout the 2020-2021 NFL season. The other nominees were Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson, Jacksonville Jaguars running back James Robinson, Indianapolis Colts running back Johnathan Taylor, and Washington Football Team defensive end Chase Young, according to anews releasefrom the Chargers....

Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers and wife Tiffany Rivers are hoping to raise awareness for type 1 diabetes after their son was diagnosed with the condition when he was just 5 years old. “It’s our everyday,” Tiffany tells PEOPLE of her son, Gunner, being diagnosed with the condition six years ago. “It’s our normal. It’s definitely a part of our life now.” Insulin keeps the body’s blood sugar level from getting too high (known as hyperglycemia) or too low (hypoglycemia)....

Photo: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports Chargers' defensive tackle Sebastian Joseph-Day has accused a male TSA agent at a Southern California airport of sexually assaulting him. “After I asked the gentleman to please stop BC I’m uncomfortable and I feel that this part of the check is unnecessary (After he felt what was needed). Then they told me I was the problem after 3 TSA agents swarmed me.” Joseph-Day called the incident “extremely unnecessary and dehumanizing” in a second tweet....

Wendy Williams’ son Kevin Hunter Jr. is free of the assault charges against him after analleged physical altercationoccurred with his dad, Kevin Hunter Sr. The simple assault case was dropped against the 18-year-old on Tuesday, his attorney Raymond Hamlin toldE! News. Kevin Jr. had pleaded not guilty to the crime on June 25 in a New Jersey courtroom. “The police were not witnesses to what happened and they came onto the scene after the fact,” Hamlin told the outlet....

Bryan Riser.Photo: Dallas County Sheriff’s Office/AP/Shutterstock At a preliminary hearing Wednesday morning, Dallas County Criminal Court Judge Audrey Moorehead agreed with the district attorney’s office that there was insufficient evidence for the case against Riser to continue. “We have an obligation — under the United States Constitution, under the Texas Constitution, under the Code of Criminal Procedure, under our duty as prosecutors — to see that justice is done,” prosecutor Jason Fine said in court,according tothe New York Times....

All charges have been dropped againstEmpireactorJussie Smollettstemming from accusations he staged an alleged early morning hate crime attack against himself on a Chicago sidewalk in January, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office confirms to PEOPLE. Theo Wargo/Getty It was not immediately clear whether Smollett forfeited the $10,000 he put up to post bail or his full $100,000 bond. Smollett’s attorneys, Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes, released a statement to PEOPLE saying, “Today, all criminal charges against Jussie Smollett were dropped and his record has been wiped clean of the filing of this tragic complaint against him....

Photo: Instagram Murder charges that accused a Philadelphia teen of fatally shooting his twin brother were dropped Wednesday after investigation revealed the October 1 incident to be a “tragic accident,” according to the district attorney. The shooting death of 18-year-old Suhail Gillard initially led to charges of murder and other crimes against his twin, Fayaadh Gillard. Both were high school seniors and shared All-Public-League honors as standout football players for Mastery Charter North High School....