Paul MobleyLegendary comedian Tracy Morgan will star in the title role of a forthcoming Paramount+ comedy called Crutch a spin-off of CBS hit The Neighborhood.That show s star, Cedric the Entertainer, will be executive producing the series with Morgan. Tracy stars as Francois "Frank" Crutchfield "Crutch" to his friends "a Harlem widower whose empty nest plans are put on hold after his millennial son and free-spirited daughter move back home," CBS Studios teased.Production will get underway later in 2024.Owen Smith, who wrote the premiere script and will also serve as showrunner, last teamed up with Morgan on the comedy series The Last O.G. Ced said in the announcement, "I m excited to be expanding our The Neighborhood universe . with the legendary comedian Tracy Morgan," explaining Crutch is the "close cousin" to his Neighborhood patriarch, Calvin Butler.Cedric calls Crutch "a say-it-like-it-is dad who will undoubtedl
Edith Polverini/Getty Images (HOUSTON, Texas) More than 20 million people remain under a flood watch in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas on Sunday.Harris County, Texas, Judge Lina Hidalgo said Sunday that 224 people and 153 pets have been rescued amid the flooding. No deaths or injuries have been reported."Unfortunately, what we saw was basically what we predicted, which was a lot of flooding," Hidalgo had said Saturday, noting that in some areas, there has been flooding "all the way up to the power lines."The east fork of the San Jacinto River crested at 77.8 feet above sea level and the water is still rising on the west fork, according to Hidalgo.The judge warned that it was too late for residents to evacuate without calling 911."We re not out of the woods yet and a level of uncertainty remains," Hidalgo said.Several rivers in the Houston area are at major flood stage, with the Trinity River, located northeast of Houston, likely swelling to its highest lev
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Protests have broken out at colleges and universities across the country in connection with the war in Gaza.Many pro-Palestinian protesters are calling for their colleges to divest of funds from Israeli military operations, while some Jewish students on the campuses have called the protests antisemitic and said they are scared for their safety.The student protests some of which have turned into around-the-clock encampments have erupted throughout the nation following arrests and student removals at Columbia University in New York City. Students at schools including Yale University, New York University, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Southern California and more have launched protests.Here s how the news is developing. All times Eastern:May 03, 10:15 PMUCLA classes to resume on MondayThe University of California Los Angeles announced classes are "expected to resume in full on Monday," in an update
ABCOn Saturday morning, May 4, legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola dropped a tease to his decades-in-the-making, mostly self-funded epic Megalopolis.In the snippet, apparently from the movie s opening moments, one of the movie s many stars, Adam Driver, playing a man named Caesar, emerges from a window atop what appears to be New York City s Chrysler Building.Dressed in a black suit and shirt, he shakily makes his way to the ledge, taking in the view, before he takes a fateful step off.However, he s heard screaming "Time stop!" and sure enough, Caesar is paused mid-step, his body leaning over to the point where gravity would have logically already taken him. There s a dizzying zoom of the height of the building from his perspective, from where we can see traffic has been stopped in its tracks, too.Impossibly, Driver leans back onto the roof, and snaps his finger, and time and traffic resumes, and he seems to gaze at the city before him with fresh eyes. The teaser then cu
Al Seib/ Los Angeles Times(SANTA CRUZ, Calif.) The captain of a scuba dive boat that caught fire off the California coast in 2019, killing 34 people, was sentenced to four years in federal prison on Thursday, the Department of Justice said.A federal jury found Jerry Boylan, 70, of Santa Barbara, guilty of seaman s manslaughter in November 2023 in connection with the deadly boat fire.Boylan was the captain of the Conception, a 75-foot boat that caught fire while it was docked at Platt s Harbor near Santa Cruz Island during a scuba diving excursion in the early morning hours on Sept. 2, 2019, while passengers and crew members were sleeping. One crew member and 33 passengers died, while Boylan and four other crew members jumped overboard and survived.U.S. District Judge George Wu issued the sentence after hearing more than a dozen victim impact statements.The sentence also included three years of supervised release, according to ABC Los Angeles station KABC.AdvertisementA restitution he