Brett James, the Grammy Award-winning songwriter known for megahit “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” has died in a small-engine plane crash. He was 57. James was one of three people on board a Cirrus SR22T aircraft that crashed near Franklin, North Carolina, on Thursday in an incident that the National Transportation Safety Board said it is investigating. The Nashville Songwriters Hall …
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Singer D4vd has canceled the remaining dates of his U.S. tour amid an investigation into a dead body found in a car registered to him. The remaining dates on the singer’s U.S. tour — a concert in Los Angeles Saturday and a scheduled appearance at the L.A. Grammy Museum on Sept. 24 — were quietly removed from those venue websites overnight …
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Just as it’s about to begin, a trial for the 2006 murder of a former Miami Hurricanes player took a massive turn. ESPN reporters found a key witness, said to be dead by Florida prosecutors, very much alive when they knocked on his door in Louisville, Kentucky in August. Paul Conner lived in the apartment complex where defensive lineman Bryan …
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Brett James, the Grammy-winning writer of “Jesus, Take the Wheel” and scores of other hit country and pop songs, has died in a plane crash, authorities confirmed Friday morning. The North Carolina State Highway Patrol told NBC News that it was called to a crash near the town of Franklin, Macon County, at 3 p.m. Thursday. It confirmed three people …
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Two elk hunters missing since Friday were found dead Thursday morning by Colorado search and rescue teams, according to Lynne Runkle, the aunt of Andrew Porter, one of the missing men. “It is with a broken heart and through tears that I give you this update,” Runkle posted on a GoFundMe page she had set up to pay for …
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Sep 18, 2025, 03:39 PM ET Florida prosecutors have repeatedly told a court that a key witness in their murder case against a former Miami Hurricanes football player accused in the 2006 killing of teammate Bryan Pata was dead. However, with the long-delayed murder trial of Rashaun Jones only weeks from its scheduled start in Miami, ESPN reporters knocked on …
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The mystery deepened this week surrounding the case of a girl whose decomposing body was found in an abandoned Telsa registered to singer D4vd. The discovery made national headlines earlier this month. But this week, authorities identified the girl as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas, an Inland Empire resident who was reported missing last April. Many things remain unclear, including why the …
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EXPLAINER The LAPD identified the body of a girl in the car of Romantic Homicide singer d4vd. She went missing in 2024, aged 13. A decomposing body found in the boot of American singer d4vd’s impounded Tesla by police on September 8 was identified by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) as missing California teenager Celeste Rivas on Wednesday. It …
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There won’t be a casino in Times Square or Hudson Yards. The committee tasked with reviewing a proposal by Caesars Palace in Times Square rejected the bid Wednesday morning, by a 4-2 vote. Another committee, formed for the Avenir bid in Hudson Yards, likewise nixed that project, also by a 4-2 vote. “I believe casinos must clear a particularly high …
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The Dallas Cowboys lost a two-time Super Bowl champion this week. Former Cowboys D.D. Lewis passed away this Tuesday. He was 79. Prior to becoming a superstar for “America’s Team,” he was an All-American and SEC Defensive Player of the Year at Mississippi State. That led to him being a sixth-round pick in the 1968 NFL Draft. When it was …
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