The L.A. County District Attorney's office has dismissed the complaint against Lindsay Lohan by Thaer Kamal, who accused the actress of hit-and-run.
Just hours after the case was delivered to them, prosecutors found "no direct evidence" of LL ever hitting the manager of Hollywood's Hookah Lounge.
In fact, per the D.A.'s report, there was no evidence that anyone hit Kamal and drove off, calling his credibility into serious question.
"Victim Thaer Kamal's changed story and lack of cooperation with law enforcement make him a non credible witness," stated the D.A.'s report.
"The fact that no collision is seen on video and a lack of any damage to any vehicle or any independent witnesses make it impossible to prove this case."
LAPD detectives handed their investigation off to the D.A. earlier today after conducting interviews and reviewing surveillance tape of the area.
They found jack. Case closed.
Looks like she actually was (attempted) vitim here. Hopefully we'll see no more BS frame jobs and just Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor.
Storms with lightning, hail and rain rolled through North Texas Friday night, while one person sustained a minor injury as hail the size of baseballs hit parts of Oklahoma.
In Texas, lightning forced Forth Worth's Mayfest 2012 to shut down Friday night and Texas Christian University also called off its baseball game early, NBC DFW reported.
In 1995, a huge hailstorm hit Fort Worth. The storm did $1 billion in damage and injured more than 100 people, including a number of people at Mayfest.?
Barring any more bad weather, the event should be back in business Friday morning, NBC DFW said.?
The storm triggered a tornado warning in Hood County, but there were no immediate reports of damage there, according to the sheriff.?
A home in Celina sustained serious damage when strong winds caused a roof to collapse in the Carter Ranch addition, the Collin County sheriff said.?
Minor damage was reported in Granbury, and some downed trees were reported in Crowley.?
?Meanwhile in Oklahoma, a?couple and their grandchild were fleeing the storm in a vehicle when hail smashed a window, injuring one person inside,?Tillman County Emergency Management Director Jeffrey Rector told The Associated Press Friday.
In neighboring Cotton County, a sheriff's dispatcher said a number of cars were damaged as the storm passed through, but there were no reports of injuries.
NBC News contributed to this report.
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With a month to go before this year?s Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show (E3), rumors are surfacing about next-generation console announcements. We?re not likely to hear much about what sort of features they?ll have for a while with the exception of Nintendo?s upcoming Wii U, which is launching this fall.
But gamers love to talk about their fantasy consoles. We all have our wish lists. How about a little crowdsourced hardware design? I?m up for it. Here?s what I?m hoping will be in the next-gen systems.
It would be nice to see all of the consoles adopt game streaming from the cloud. If you process and store the game in the cloud as OnLive and Gaikai do, you can stream video of a game to a player, relieving the machine on the receiving end of the need do processing. That means that the console never becomes outdated as you can always just upgrade the hardware in the data center to improve the gamer?s experience at home. Cloud gaming hasn?t taken the world by storm yet, but it seems like an inevitable byproduct of advances of streaming, compression, and better broadband.
One rumor suggested the new consoles won?t have physical media. I won?t miss discs, but it may be a little early to get rid of them entirely. Sure, this thought conflicts with the idea of cloud gaming, so I have mixed feelings about it. But we may not be ready for the next console to be entirely dependent on the cloud. I?d be happy to see Jedi mind tricks with brain wave controls, but I?m not expecting great advances on that front, either.
This is an exercise that anybody can join. Nicole Lazzaro, head of XEO Design, would love to be able to carry her games across all kinds of devices, consoles included. She wants the machine to know her friends and be ready to send demos of games to them. She wants a flexible display that she could roll up in a pen and an easily browsable game catalog.
Todd Hooper of Zipline games wants a console with no discs, 4K 3D graphics, and awesome graphics power. He?s happy to pay $60 for games running on such a console. For him, free-to-play games would simply be a nice option. GamesBeat writer Rob LeFebvre would like to see a great ?console convergence,? where each system maker?s games will run on their competitors? machines. GamesBeat intern Mike Minotti wants to see Mario games running on Xboxes. Those are good wishes, and we never said they had to be realistic.
Mark Deloura, former vice president of technology at THQ, said the biggest question for him is how the consoles remain relevant. He also worries about the physical drive. Will Blu-ray be big enough to store the data from next-gen games? Maybe it is the BDXL specification, which stacks Blu-ray discs on top of each other. The transfer rate from those discs would be 45 megabits per second, so it could take 100 seconds to fill up 4 gigabytes of main memory from a disc. That?s a challenge for the technologists, as it?s no easy thing to change to a new disc format. Deloura would also like to see a more open ecosystem for online titles and stronger support. And the consoles should catch up to social/mobile when it comes to innovative business models.
And here?s some more specific wish lists.
Nintendo. The company has described its Wii U as having high-definition graphics, Wii-like motion sensors, a tablet-like controller with a touchscreen, and near-field communications. I?d like to see Nintendo finally embrace the world of online gaming and digital distribution. How about Steam on a Nintendo console, asks GamesBeat writer Stefanie Fogel. Nintendo has the right idea in embracing tablets as controllers, but it really ought to go all the way and use the iPhone or iPad as the input device.
Everyone is quite worried that the Wii U won?t have much processing power. It will be able to run high-definition content, but it may not be as powerful as the current Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Our preference: faster, faster, faster, of course.
Sony. Sony should return to mass-market pricing. That may mean your PlayStation 4, code-named Orbis, won?t have a chip with 256 cores. But who wants to pay $600 for a next-gen machine for the living room? Sony has said it has no plans to describe its PlayStation 4 at E3. Hooper says that Sony would do better to have a better online strategy that catches up with Microsoft?s. Rolling out updates, for instances, should take far less time than it currently does.
Microsoft. A rumor emerged this week that Microsoft will subsidize its current Xbox 360, offering a $99 price for a console-Kinect bundle if you pay for a two-year subscription at $15 a month. That is marching down the road toward a subscription-based console, like a mobile-phone contract, where the hardware is free and you pay for software or an online subscription. On top of that, free-to-play business models, where users play for free and pay real money for virtual items, have made a big splash on social and mobile platforms, but they could really be disruptive on the consoles.
The next machine is reportedly code-named Durango. It reportedly has 16 processor cores ? compared to three in the Xbox 360. It is also rumored to have an Advanced Micro Devices graphics chip that can handle 4K resolution (better than high-definition TV) graphics. Amen to that. Dave Taylor, a veteran programmer, would rather see a Larrabee-like processor with 80 or more cores.
I?d also want Kinect 2 since the original Kinect motion-sensing system isn?t as accurate as I?d like it to be. Of course, it goes without saying that we really want the Star Trek Holodeck, where virtual reality is indistinguishable from the real world. Microsoft has said it has no plans to talk about a new console at E3.
Apple. These guys could easily get into the console business with an Apple-branded television set that runs apps from the App Store. When you can spend 99 cents for decent-quality games on the TV, you may never pay $60 for a console title again. You could use your iPhone or iPad as a controller.
What we don?t want to see
One thing I really don?t want to see in the next-gen consoles is stereoscopic 3D. I think the past few years have shown that it doesn?t add that much to the experience, makes a lot of people dizzy, and still adds cost.
I think that game developers and publisher want to see an end to used game sales, particularly for new games that have just hit the market. GameStop would hate for the next consoles to block used games, though it contends a relatively small portion of used game sales are for the newest games. Gamers, who have viewed used games as a right, would hate it, too. Legal precedent supports them too.
What?s your own wish list? Please vote for your favorites in the poll or add some new desires in the comments.
Apple's iPhone 4S has been on the market for 6 months already and the Samsung Galaxy S III doesn't even hit store shelves until the end of May. Yet the iPhone 4S remains the best selling handset in the world and the Galaxy S III claims to be the best handset on the planet, period, so let's put them head-to-head, Mobile Nations style.
Facebook thinks mobile messaging should feel like you're having a face-to-face conversation, so today it updates its Messenger for iOS and Android apps with the ability to see if someone's read your message, and easier ways to tell if someone's typing and where they're messaging from. Facebook Messenger "read receipts" are even easier to understand than those long-found on BlackBerry Messenger, and they work for group messaging too. The apps now display "Seen by Peter, Josh, Justin" right under a sent message. Director of Product Peter Deng tells "SMS has been around for 20 years, built it was for these T9 phones. We're?focused on leveraging all the capabilities of today's devices to create a new messaging experience." He also says?these are just the start of app updates designed to make mobile conversations feel more real, as if you had body language cues and more to go by. The read receipts definitely accomplish this, as you won't have to send any "did you get that?" messages or wonder if someone missed you message, or read it but just didn't respond.
Amanda Seyfried will soon be bringing her portrayal of Linda Lovelace to the silver screen -- and in the meantime, she's steaming up computer screens! The first poster for Lovelace, a biopic of the 1970s adult film star, hit the Internet Wednesday. And while it's not pornographic at all, it's definitely sexy.
Singer also reveals track list for his June 12 release, which will include collaborations with Pharrell, Rick Ross and others. By Jocelyn Vena
Usher's <i>Looking 4 Myself</i> Photo: RCA
Usher is nearing the release of his new album Looking 4 Myself. And to get fans excited for it, he unveiled the track listing and cover art this week.
The cover teases the "more artistic" tracks he has in store. In a close-up shot of his profile, Usher sports a neck tattoo that matches the artsy images in the background.
On it, he's got collaborations with Rick Ross on "Lemme See," Pharrell on "Twisted," and Luke Steele on the album's title track, according to Hiphop-n-More. For those unfamiliar with Steele, he's from the Australian synth-pop duo Empire of the Sun. He also appeared on Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 and co-wrote the track "Rather Die Young" on Beyoncé's 4.
Usher already has teased fans about what they can expect from the June 12 release with the sultry single "Climax," the party track "Scream" and the R&B thumper "Lemme See." He previewed the album at a special performance of the off-Broadway show "Fuerza Bruta" in New York City in April.
"There's a lot there to keep fans tuning in. It's a ton of other experiences and a ton of other walks ... as I've had this long journey over the last year [and] every bit of what I've experienced I've put into a creative, artistic way," he told MTV News about the album. "This is more artistic of an album than I've had in history."
Here's the full track list for Looking 4 Myself, including deluxe edition tracks:
» "Can't Stop Won't Stop" » "Scream" » "Climax" » "I Care for U" » "Show Me" » "Lemme See" (featuring Rick Ross) » "Twisted" (featuring Pharrell) » "Dive" » "What Happened to U" » "Looking 4 Myself" (featuring Luke Steele) » "Numb" » "Lessons for the Lover" » "Sins of My Father" » "Euphoria" » "I.F.U." (Deluxe only) » "Say the Words" (Deluxe only) » "2nd Round" (Deluxe only) » "Hot Thing" (Deluxe only)
What track are you most excited for on Looking 4 Myself? Leave your comment below!
What track are you most excited for on Looking 4 Myself? Leave your comment below!
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Facebook thinks mobile messaging should feel like you're having a face-to-face conversation, so today it updates its 
