Lauryn Hill charged over income tax returns - BBC News
Hip-hop star Lauryn Hill has been charged with willfully failing to file income tax returns in the US.
Authorities say the singer earned more than $1.6 million (£1.03m) during the three years that she failed to file returns.
US prosecutors said her main source of income during the period 2005 - 2007 was royalties from her music and films.
Hill, who has not yet commented on the charges, is scheduled to appear in court on 29 June.
According to court papers, the 37-year-old owns and operates four corporations - Creations Music, Boogie Tours, LH Productions 2001, and Studio 22.
Hill was the only female member of rap group The Fugees, whose album The Score achieved worldwide success in 1996.
Two years later, she released her debut solo album - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill - to wide critical acclaim. It remains her only studio album to date.
The singer also appeared alongside Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.
She has six children and now rarely makes public appearances.
BJP chief gets an earful from RSS - deccanchronicle.com
RSS bigwigs reportedly gave BJP state president K.S. Eshwarappa an earful for his remarks that the BJP government rode to power in 2008 relying on money and caste power. The BJP chief had ignited a fresh controversy in the ruling party with loyalists of former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa—many of whom had shifted from the Congress and JD(S) to the BJP— expressing outrage over his remarks.
The BJP president had said that the Yeddyurappa government was formed by launching Operation Kamala with money and caste playing a prime role. With the BJP just having emerged from a severe crisis, RSS functionaries reportedly advised Eshwarappa to focus on balancing the interests of different groups instead of raking up controversies. Soon after the rebuke, Eshwarappa denied making the statement attributed to him.
South San Francisco police: Real estate agent duct tapes, threatens prostitute - San Jose Mercury News
A Silicon Valley real estate agent who lost cash and an iPad to a sticky-fingered prostitute responded by duct taping the 20-year-old woman's limbs together and threatening to kill her in a South San Francisco hotel, authorities said Thursday.
David Patrick O'Mara, 46, brought the woman to his San Francisco home for sex on Tuesday. But while there she took his Apple product, some money and ran off, according to South San Francisco police.
The next day O'Mara allegedly set up another encounter with the same woman, this time at an undisclosed South San Francisco hotel. He set up the meeting through an adult website and used a pseudonym so the woman wouldn't recognize him, police said.
Instead of a paying customer, the woman got O'Mara, who beat, threatened and then tied her up, police said. He allegedly duct-taped her arms and legs together as well as slapping a piece tape across her mouth.
Police ended up at the hotel, however, after guests complained about a woman screaming. Once at the hotel police found the woman still tied up and quickly arrested O'Mara. Officer cut off the tape and sent the woman to the hospital. It is unlikely she'll face charges in connection with the alleged theft, police said.
O'Mara was booked into San Mateo County jail and was being held in lieu of $50,000 bail. If he's charged with a crime, he'll be in San Mateo County Superior Court Friday, officials said.
According to O'Mara's state real
estate license and his website, he's a consultant for Intero Real Estate Services in Los Gatos. A call to the Los Gatos office manager was not immediately returned.Contact Joshua Melvin at 650-348-4355. Follow him at Twitter.com/melvinreport.
Advocaat's two big calls - UEFA
Dick Advocaat said he has "a full squad to choose from" as Russia held their final training session before Friday's UEFA EURO 2012 game against the Czech Republic.
The 64-year-old gave very little away and also commented that the team "aren't feeling nervous" ahead of their opening game. There had been injury concerns about Igor Akinfeev, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Marat Izmailov, but all three seemed to move easily and without any noticeable problems.
The vast majority of the Russia team picks itself, but there are two positions that will give the Dutchman something to think over tonight. Perhaps the toughest is who will play in goal, with Akinfeev and Vyacheslav Malafeev two candidates who have both had to overcome adversity in recent times.
Fifteen months ago, Malafeev lost his wife in a car crash and was left to care for his two children alone. However, rather than let himself be overcome by grief, the FC Zenit St Petersburg keeper produced the form of his life and excelled for both the national team and his club in the UEFA Champions League.
Dick Advocaat addresses his squad during training on Thursday
The other quandary for Advocaat is who to play on the right-hand side of attack, with Alan Dzagoev, the incumbent, up against Izmailov. Dzagoev was Russia's joint top scorer in qualifying, but the 21-year-old only recently recovered from a broken bone in his foot and is now under pressure from a rejuvenated Izmailov. The Sporting Clube de Portugal winger is no stranger to injuries himself, though he has battled back to full fitness and was impressive in his country's warm-up games after six years in the international wilderness.
It's a nice headache for Advocaat to have going into the game with the Czech Republic and he has the luxury of knowing that whoever he chooses is likely to cause their opponents a number of problems.
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