You choose, we deliver
If you are interested in this story, you might be interested in others from The Journal Gazette. Go to www.journalgazette.net/newsletter and pick the subjects you care most about. We'll deliver your customized daily news report at 3 a.m. Fort Wayne time, right to your email.

Entertainment

  • Will ’Amour’ conquer all in Cannes prize race?
    CANNES, France – Love is in the air at the Cannes Film Festival, as the jury sits down Sunday to choose its prizewinners.
  • Lady Gaga cancels Indonesian show over security
    JAKARTA, Indonesia – Lady Gaga has canceled her sold-out show in Indonesia over security concerns after Muslim hard-liners threatened violence if the pop diva went ahead with her “Born This Way Ball,” promoters said
  • Doc Watson still critical after surgery
    WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Grammy-winning folk musician Doc Watson remains in critical condition at a North Carolina hospital after undergoing colon surgery this week.
Advertisement
People in the news

Gibson may be witness for arresting officer

– Attorneys for a deputy who arrested Mel Gibson on suspicion of drunken driving want to call the Oscar-winner as a witness during an upcoming trial to determine whether Deputy James Mee suffered discrimination because of the case.

The trial will focus on what happened to the officer after he arrested the actor-director in 2006, and whether he endured discrimination because he is Jewish.

Mee’s attorneys are hoping to show the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department moved to protect Gibson because the star had a close relationship with the department before his arrest.

Attorneys for the county have denied Mee faced discrimination or retaliation.

The case is likely to focus heavily on Gibson’s arrest, when the actor made anti-Semitic comments that Mee claims his superiors forced him to remove from a report.

Mee also alleges he was ostracized and opportunities for promotion were blocked after he arrested Gibson.

– Associated Press