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Tim Curry -- the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

Sources tell TMZ the actor -- who had been plagued with serious health issues for more than a decade -- passed away late Tuesday night at his Los Angeles home.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... police responded to his house at 11:23 PM Tuesday night. We're told there is no foul play suspected in the case.

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At least 18 people were killed and more than 380 listed as missing Wednesday in Nepal after flash flooding tore through valleys in the Himalayan country's northern border areas, according to authorities.

At least three U.S. nationals were among the 291 foreigners listed as missing, according to Nepal's Tourism Board, citing information from tour companies.

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The flash floods decimated villages, slamming into houses, roads, bridges and power plants.

Videos broadcast by regional news outlets and posted on social media show violent torrents of water surging through valleys and mountain passes, tearing down bridges and dams and sweeping away buildings.

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Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80.

Her nephew, Brian Seaver, revealed the news in an Aug. 25 Instagram video.

“My name is Brian Seaver, son of Cassie Parton, and I’m representing the Parton and Owens family today announcing the passing of my aunt, Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean, Sister, Sis and Granny to one generation and Gigi to the next,” he says in the video. “This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality. As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven’t truly felt it until now.”

Parton shared an update on her health on Friday, Aug. 21, acknowledging her recent decline after the March 2025 death of her husband, Carl Dean.

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Family members reeling from a devastating massacre that killed eight people in Montana have identified three of the victims as a pair of siblings and their stepmother.

Charlotte, 12, Landon, 15, and their stepmother were among the victims of a shooting spree at a Billings home over the weekend, according to separate GoFundMes set up for each of the children’s parents.

Authorities responding to a report of a “family disturbance” at the house on Sunday, Aug. 23 found multiple casualties, the Billings Police Department said in a statement on Monday.

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A man was taken to the hospital, police said. According to investigators’ account cited by KULR 8, the man was identified as the suspect and died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

According to a GoFundMe set up for the children’s father Adam Ghekiere, his wife was among those killed.

Neither the wife nor the children are named in that fundraiser, but the page linked out to a separate GoFundMe set up for the children’s mother where the kids are named.

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According to a timeline provided by Billings police, an officer responded to a report of an active shooting a little after 6 p.m. on Sunday when they heard more shots fired from the back of the house.

Within minutes, smoke was seen coming out of the house which was eventually “fully engulfed,” police said.

It wasn’t immediately clear how or if the suspect knew the victims, or if investigators have determined a possible motive behind the killings.

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Ian Roberts, 24, was last seen at approximately 9:45 a.m. on Friday. Officials said Roseville police received a missing-person report at about 4:45 a.m. Saturday after Roberts had not returned home the previous night.

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He was last seen wearing a brown shirt, dark shorts, gray shoes and possibly had a beanie. Roberts is 6 feet tall and weighs 210 pounds. With assistance from Roberts’ family, authorities tracked his vehicle to a skate park in Auburn, where Placer County deputies located it. The Placer County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team subsequently began searching the surrounding Auburn State Recreation Area.

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A large search was set to resume Monday morning for a 24-year-old Roseville man who disappeared after apparently hiking into a Northern California river canyon.

Ian Roberts was last seen at 9:45 a.m. Friday, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators believe Roberts left his vehicle at the skate park at Overlook Park before hiking into the American River Canyon. The park sits on the edge of Auburn, overlooking the canyon, and provides direct access to trails descending into it, less than a mile from Interstate 80.

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A missing person poster released by authorities shows Roberts in what appears to be an image captured by a Ring doorbell camera at 9:45 a.m. Friday.

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Katrice Simmons, 59, moved from Pensacola, Florida, to Georgia in April after an online relationship became serious, and she loaded up a U-Haul with her belongings.

The last time her children or close family heard from her was May 19, when her daughter noted that Simmons sounded like she was in distress.

Her family filed a missing persons report with Atlanta police, stating that going completely non contact is out of character for her.

Loved ones believe Simmons was living in an apartment in the 300 block of Lanier Street NW before she vanished.

Family members claim they asked the man she moved to Georgia to be with if he knew her whereabouts, but he said no.

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Authorities and family members do not know the location of Simmons, her belongings, her phone or her vehicle. She was driving a black Chevrolet Equinox that had a missing rear window.

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An arrest warrant has been issued for a mental health advocate who remained missing on Sunday, more than five days after police found the Massachusetts officer she had been married to dead in their home.

Karen Solomon, 58, was last spotted in a doorbell camera video, walking down a street in a T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops early Tuesday morning, just minutes after Worcester police officers responded to a call from the home where Kurt Solomon was found dead.

Worcester police chief Paul Saucier said the warrant charges Karen Solomon with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Saucier said Kurt Solomon, a 31-year-veteran officer, was mortally injured with a sharp object – he wouldn’t say precisely what.

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Karen Solomon wrote two books about the physical and psychological experiences of first responders and helped start First Help, an organization that advocates for their mental health. The Solomons shared a home and had been married, court records indicated – but authorities declined to discuss their current relationship, citing domestic violence privacy rules.

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A Pennsylvania teenager fatally stabbed his girlfriend, a college soccer player, then enlisted his mother’s help to clean up the crime scene and move the victim’s body, police said Thursday.

Karoline Heintz, a freshman defender at Division II PennWest California, was found dead in the back of a Jeep Cherokee at about 12:24 a.m. Thursday near the California Public Library, roughly 35 miles south of downtown Pittsburgh, officials said.

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Investigators believe that hours earlier Heintz had “met with her boyfriend, Royce Moser, outside his father’s residence in North Strabane to talk,” according to a statement from Pennsylvania State Police.

Moser, 18, got angry, went inside the house, grabbed a large kitchen knife and stabbed Heintz to death in the chest, according to police.

“We believe it (the murder) was originally the result of a domestic situation,” Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh told reporters.

The suspect then put her body in the Jeep’s rear hatch and drove to his mother’s residence in Beallsville, police said.

There, Rachel Moser wiped down the Jeep with cleaning sprays and gave her son latex gloves, instructing him to follow her to the university, according to police. The two then “left the Jeep Cherokee near the California Public Library with Karoline Heintz still inside,” police said.

Rachel Moser drove her son back to her home, where he cleaned his clothes and showered, police said.

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The criminal complaint said Rachel Moser told her son to "take a bath and then shower" and change his clothes. She also allegedly put the knife in a garbage bag and washed her son's clothes.

Police said the woman tried to clean the Jeep with disinfectant spray and gave her son latex gloves to wear as they drove around.

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Royce Moser told investigators that he got angry after something Heintz said to him during their conversation in her Jeep, but he could not remember what exactly it was, according to the criminal complaint.

He then said he had a "demon take over," telling him to stab his girlfriend, according to the criminal complaint. The court document also stated that Rachel Moser told police that her son told her he had "demons" telling him to hurt his girlfriend.

According to the criminal complaint, Royce Moser told Heintz, "Wait, I have something for you" during their talk outside his father's home before going and getting the knife and stabbing her.

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Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Haden was found dead in a federal building in San Diego on Wednesday, Aug. 19, shortly after being reported missing. He was 48.

The San Diego Police Department received a report of a missing man on Wednesday evening and found him dead in an office at 880 Front St. shortly afterward, a police spokesperson told the Los Angeles Times.

The address, in downtown San Diego, is that of the Edward J. Schwartz federal building, which houses the U.S. Attorney's Office, reported The Times of San Diego.

Police told the L.A. Times that no foul play is suspected. The Medical Examiner will determine the official cause and manner of death.

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a Saskatchewan woman was last seen in Edmonton, police now say her vehicle was tracked from the Prairies to the Pacific and back — but Natanis Merasty is nowhere to be found.

“Natanis is very soft-spoken. She’s shy, she is loving, caring,” said her aunt and godmother Marcella Merasty at an Edmonton Police Service news conference on Friday

Where the 24-year-old is and whether she is alive remains a mystery.

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Last month, police said Merasty was from La Ronge, Sask., but on Friday her family said she’s from the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, which surrounds Prince Albert in northern Saskatchewan.

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Merasty was in Edmonton 10 weeks ago to visit friends. Police said she came to the city with some other friends or acquaintances, but did not say who or how they knew Merasty.

She was last seen overnight on May 5, when she left the Continental Inn on 166 Street and Stony Plain Road in the west end around 1:30 a.m.

About an hour and a half later, she went into a 7-11 a few blocks away on 156 Street and 107 Avenue.

That’s the last time Merasty was captured on surveillance camera video, Edmonton police said.

However, her vehicle continued to be spotted as it travelled through central Alberta and then west to Vancouver Island, and back again east into northern Saskatchewan.

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Merasty drives a 2007 black Hyundai Tucson with Saskatchewan plates, which was found 10 days after she vanished back in Saskatchewan with a new, shoddy paint job.

“It was silver, spray-painted, maybe,” said Rio. “The timeframe — we know that on the 12th it was black. We know that on the 15th, it was silver. For me to say it was spray painted, it’s just an assumption, but it didn’t look an extremely clear and neat job.”

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May 5, 2025

Natanis is captured on CCTV at the Continental Inn at 166 Street and Stony Plain Road in Edmonton
She was observed driving away in her 2007 black, Hyundai Tucson at 1:22 a.m.
Her vehicle returns to the hotel around 1:30 a.m. and leaves at 2:37 a.m.
Natanis is captured on CCTV at the 7-Eleven on 156 Street and 107 Avenue and leaves at 2:55 a.m.
Her vehicle travels through the Edmonton, Sherwood Park, Buck Lake, Nordegg and Lake Louise areas

May 6, 2025 – The vehicle travels through British Columbia

May 7, 2025 – The vehicle travels by ferry to Nanaimo, B.C.

May 10, 2025 – The vehicle returns to the Edmonton area

May 12, 2025 – The vehicle is observed west of Lloydminster

May 15, 2025 – Natanis’ vehicle is found abandoned and repainted on the James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan.

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Metro Nashville Police are searching for a Colorado man who was last seen early Sunday morning in East Nashville.

Conor Anderson, 31, flew to Nashville Saturday for a work conference and checked into the Millennium Maxwell House hotel, police said.

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At about 1 a.m. Sunday, Anderson flagged down two East Precinct officers near Woodland and Main streets. He told officers he had given two unknown men $20 to show him around the area, but the men walked away with the cash.

Police said Anderson did not want to provide his driver’s license to make a formal report. Officers encouraged him to use a rideshare to return to his hotel, and he agreed.

Detectives are reviewing surveillance footage and checking Anderson’s phone and bank records as they work to locate him.

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Columbia police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing person.

Bruce Call, 37, of Columbia, was last seen at about 11:30 p.m. Aug. 15 in the 1100 block of Rollins Road.

Call was last seen driving a silver Nissan Rogue.

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A Cary man who went missing earlier this week is considered endangered, officials said.

Bernard Brown, 68, was last seen on Sunday, Aug. 16 walking behind his home in the 300 block of View Drive near Ascent Lane around 5 p.m. He was reported missing two days later, Tuesday, Aug. 18, according to officials.

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The North Carolina Center for Missing Persons issued an endangered alert for Brown the same day he was reported missing.

According to Town of Cary officials, Brown is believed to be suffering from a cognitive impairment. Brown has missed several social appointments after he was reported missing.

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Law enforcement on Tuesday released the identity of one of several people found dead in recent days near bodies of water in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis Park Police responded to a report of a body found about 6 p.m. Saturday in woods near East River Parkway and SE. Oak Street, steps away from the Mississippi River, according to a Park Board statement.

The victim was identified by Minneapolis police as Karen Lynn Sognesand, 56, of Maple Grove.

On Monday afternoon, University of Minnesota police responded to a report after a man’s body was found near 6th Avenue SE., and SE. Main Street, close to the Stone Arch Bridge, according to university spokesman Joe Linstroth.

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Shortly after 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Minneapolis officers with the Minneapolis Police Department and Park Police responded to a report of a body along the shoreline at Bde Maka Ska, near W. 36th Street and East Bde Maka Ska Parkway.

The body was found in a severe state of decomposition, according to a statement from the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.

So far, Sognesand’s identity is the only one that officials have released.

Officials also have yet to share any information about the circumstances leading up to any of the deaths.

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Seven people, including five Americans, were killed when the helicopter they were flying in crashed in a remote part of northern Kenya Wednesday, according to local police and U.S. State Department.

The aircraft crashed at 9:13 a.m. while flying from the Loisaba Conservancy to the Ewaso Nyiro area in Samburu County, according to the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, which said in a statement that an investigation was underway.

The helicopter crashed in a rugged area in the foothills of Mount Ololokwe, a popular tourist destination in the country, local media reported.

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Journalist José Alberto Suárez, 55, the president and general manager of Telemundo 31, Telemundo 49, and Telemundo Ft. Myers–Naples, was one of five Americans killed in the crash.

Roger Duarte, 39, was the father of two boys and husband of Nicole Valls, the granddaughter of the founder of Miami staples such as Versailles and La Carreta.

Michele Sensi-Contugi was the director of the Ecuadorian National Intelligence Center.

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His wife, Stephany Hollihan de Sensi-Contugi, is founder of fashion brand Sensi Studio, set on "elevating Ecuadorean craftsmanship around the world," according to her Instagram account.

Adam Hlavaty is identified online as the co-founder of Mrkt Group, a real estate development and branded design company focusing on residential and commercial projects.

Henry Parra is identified as an aviation software executive from Miami who also served in the US Navy.

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A Colorado man whose wife was found deceased in a gruesome scene in the shower has been arrested after claiming she died by suicide.

Lindsey Barnett, 37, was found with her throat slit in her bloodied Lakewood, Colo. home on Thursday, Aug. 13, the Lakewood Police Department said in a statement.

Her husband, 40-year-old Patrick Theodore Barnett, has been arrested in connection with her killing, per the statement.

Patrick called 911 around 6 a.m. Thursday frantically claiming Lindsey had “cut herself and her throat,” according to an arrest affidavit obtained by PEOPLE.

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He allegedly told police he was asleep in the basement and came up in the morning to apologize to Lindsey because the two had had a disagreement the night before.

He found her bleeding in the shower, moved her head and called 911, he alleged, per authorities.

The evidence at the scene didn’t substantiate his insinuation that Lindsey killed herself in the shower, however, investigators said in the affidavit.

Officers found a large amount of blood on one side of the bed, plant with dirt knocked over next to the bed and some of the soil that got dragged to the bathroom, the affidavit notes. Police also saw a “dainty” bloody footstep, seemingly that of a female, between the bed and the bathroom.

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While the bed was drenched in blood, the bathroom had little blood, police said, adding that blood patterns in the bathroom further indicated Lindsey’s body had been repositioned.

Lindsey’s body also had bruises all over, including on her arms and legs, and some of them appeared to be defensive wounds, the affidavit alleges.

Patrick told investigators Lindsey suffered from postpartum depression — an issue that’s garnered national attention in light of the trial of Lindsay Clancy, who is accused of killing her three children in what her defense claims was a psychotic break she suffered owing to postpartum psychosis.

According to the affidavit, investigators learned Patrick was having an affair with a woman he met online three months ago. The woman called for a wellness check on Patrick on Thursday afternoon because she hadn’t heard from him.

She said Patrick had indicated he and Lindsey were going to get a divorce, that Lindsey had been in a psychiatric unit and that she had attempted suicide just the weekend prior.

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As the search continues for a Fairfield woman who vanished a month ago, investigators suspect foul play was involved in her disappearance.

The Fairfield Police Department provided an update Tuesday on the disappearance of Chantel Brooks, saying investigators are still working to find the 36-year-old and determine what happened to her.

Brooks was last seen July 17, according to police.

Surveillance video shows Brooks leaving her job at Hotel Le Nain in the 700 block of Eddy Street in San Francisco at about 12:20 a.m.

She was wearing a brown, multicolored brimmed hat, a red zip-up sweatshirt, gray sweatpants, and brown furry boots, according to surveillance images.

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About 1:45 a.m., surveillance cameras recorded Brooks leaving a CVS store in the 300 block of East Travis Boulevard in Fairfield.

Video shows Brooks approaching her black 2021 Infiniti QX50 SUV in the store’s parking lot. The vehicle has California license plate 9SBB134.

Police have not said what happened after Brooks approached the SUV or whether she got into the vehicle.

Brooks’ brother told the San Francisco Chronicle that her Infiniti was later seen on 55th Avenue in Oakland.

Police have not publicly detailed what led investigators to suspect foul play in Brooks’ disappearance.

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The remains of a missing Louisiana 15-year-old have reportedly been found in a landfill.

DNA testing will be conducted to formally verify the identity of the remains, but multiple sources have confirmed that the clothing found at the scene with the body matches what the teenager was said to be wearing when he disappeared.

According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, Ja’Derrius Minnieweather had been missing since June 5. About two weeks later, police announced the teen was presumed dead.

Authorities initiated an exhaustive search at the East Baton Rouge Parish North Landfill last month before announcing the finding of the remains this week.

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A suspect in the teen’s disappearance and death has already been in custody. Maurice Parms, 51, was arrested on June 20 and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on a first-degree murder charge.

According to an arrest warrant, detectives said Ja’Derrius was beaten to death during a tense disagreement with Parms over how the 51-year-old was acting toward a 16-year-old girl, who was a longtime friend of the teen.

Investigators said Parms then stashed the teenager’s body and tossed evidence before disposing of the remains.

On June 22, evidence led investigators to believe Parms put Ja’Derrius’ body in a trash can that was sent to the Zachary-area landfill.

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PITTSBURGH — Police are looking for a missing woman who may need medical attention.

According to information shared by Pittsburgh Public Safety on Tuesday, Amanda Maloney, 32, was last seen at her house on the 3500 block of Simen Avenue in Brighton Heights on Friday.

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Maloney is 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighs around 95 pounds. She has grayish-blue eyes and a shaved head.

The Special Victims Unit detectives said she may be in need of medical treatment.

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18-year-old Camilla Fuentes went missing on Aug. 13 shortly before she was scheduled to move for her freshman year at Villanova University.

Her family thought she went to work and became worried when she did not return home. They later found her car in the parking lot outside the restaurant where she works in North Garland.

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The car was parked just outside the view of the restaurant’s security cameras. Her keys, phone, Apple watch and Air Pods were all still inside.

However, Fuentes’s laptop and iPad are missing. She also has not used her debit card or bank accounts.

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Hayden Panettiere, the star of popular TV series including Heroes and Nashville, has died at age 36.

Panettiere's father, Skip, announced the actor's death in a statement provided to ABC News on Sunday. "It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen," his statement said.

The cause of death has not yet been announced. Her publicist, Kasey Kitchen, told NBC News, "There's an investigation ongoing. We should know more tomorrow."

Police in Greenville, S.C., said in a statement that officers "accompanied by EMS personnel, responded to a report of an unresponsive female" at about 1:50 p.m. on Sunday.

The statement added, "Upon arrival, medical assistance was administered; however, the individual, later identified as Hayden Panettiere, was pronounced deceased at the scene."

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Panettiere, who would have turned 37 on Friday, began her career as a child actor in commercials and soap operas. ⁠She gained recognition voicing Dot, the young princess ant in Pixar's 1998 animated hit, A Bug's Life. ​

Her work on the film's read-along album earned a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word ​Album for Children.

She was propelled to fame with her role as a cheerleader with superpowers in Heroes, which premiered on NBC in 2006.

She later played an up-and-coming country singer on Nashville.

She did her own singing in the show, which scored some hits on country charts and earned Panettiere two Golden Globe nominations.

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An East Coast family said they’re desperate to find their family member, 63-year-old Alisa Goods, who was reported missing on August 10. The family later received text messages from her phone, asking for payment in Bitcoin.

The family provided 8 News Now with a copy of the missing person report filed with Metro Police, which stated she was last seen on August 8 leaving her friend’s apartment near Maryland and Tropicana to pick up iron pills at the CVS along Paradise Road and Harmon Avenue.

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According to her family, Goods was staying with her friend Roger John in Las Vegas.

John told 8 News Now he’s known Goods for nine years and would often let her stay at his place whenever she visited Las Vegas. He said this was her second trip this year.

“It’s just sad because she’s the nicest person you would meet,” John said.

John said he last spoke to her when she left his apartment around 12:45 p.m. on August 8 when she left to catch the bus

“Last I saw her, she was going down the stairs. And I said, ‘OK, see you later,’ And that’s the last time I saw her. I went out after her, about 15 minutes after her. And I came back home about two, three hours later, and then she wasn’t home,” John said. “And I was like, ‘she should have been home already.’ I didn’t think much of it, because sometimes she’d go out and she’d shop, she stays out. And I kept texting and calling and texting and calling.”

Both John and Goods’ family said her cell phone appeared to be disconnected, unable to receive calls or texts.

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On August 12, the family began receiving text messages from her phone, but are suspicious about who is sending them.

“I said, ‘Hey, could you call me back? Something happened to mommy. It’s an emergency.’ And I kind of went on and on trying to get the person to actually call me. But they kept putting it off and saying, ‘now my card’s not working,'” Calloway said.

Calloway said the person on the other end of the phone said they were having issues with their credit cards and were at the gas station. Calloway said it was suspicious because her aunt did not have a car while visiting Las Vegas. Calloway continued trying to quiz the person on the other end of the phone to see if it was really her aunt.

“I said, ‘Well, okay, I can send you money for gas. How much do you want me to send you?'” Calloway said. “Then they wanted the Bitcoin. And then I said, ‘Well, hold on. Let me get Kelly to help.’ We have nobody in our family named Kelly.”

Calloway said if her aunt was really on the other line, she would have asked who Kelly was.

“That was alarming,” Calloway said. “Every time the person texts back, it just felt like my heart was in my stomach because I knew it wasn’t my aunt.”

Calloway said she passed it over to Goods’ son, her cousin Keven Newton, who also began receiving weird texts asking for money.

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Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row, has been found dead.

Emergency services said a man was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon.

Arday resigned as a Cambridge professor of sociology of education last week after allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements. He had denied the claims.

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They added: "The campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason, who was a gentle man and who always wanted to see the best in everyone."

Earlier on Friday, police officers were called to an address in Battersea by the London Ambulance Service.

In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: "At this time his death is being treated as unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious."

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Arday, 41, had denied any plagiarism - but admitted errors in his work - and last week said the recent controversy about his work had led to "an unrelenting level of public scrutiny and personal attack".

The row first erupted after another academic - self-defined "race realist" Nathan Cofnas, who was sacked from his Cambridge role in 2024 - said he found numerous instances of plagiarism in the professor's work.

Arday said some errors in his early academic work arose because of his autism, as he relied on using mimicry to make sense of information. Similar scrutiny would find similar errors in work by other academics, he said.

"We're talking about academia here. I didn't murder somebody. I think the cruelty that I've experienced and the positioning of me as this kind of liar and fantasist is totally unacceptable," he told the Times newspaper earlier this month.

Arday's appointment as Cambridge's youngest ever black professor at the age of 37 in 2023 was hailed at the time as a progressive moment.

Announcing his resignation last week, Arday said the "personal cost" of the scrutiny of him had become "too great".

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Cambridge initially said claims of plagiarism regarding Arday's thesis and some journal publications had been investigated by Liverpool John Moores University (LMJU) and the journals in question.

LJMU - which awarded Arday his PhD in 2015 - concluded that he had not plagiarised work.

Earlier this week, Cambridge announced an independent investigation into his appointment.

In a letter to university staff at the time, Prof Prentice said: "I fully understand the concerns being raised across the university and well beyond it, regarding Jason Arday's appointment and I share them...

"That investigation, as you say, should be thorough and transparent, and will be carried out independently by senior academics from within and beyond Cambridge."

Jolyon Maugham from campaign group Good Law Project said Arday's death was "a tragedy".

"I do not understand what the public interest was in continuing to hound him after he resigned as a professor and I do not understand what risk assessments media outlets did", Maugham added.

Arday originally worked as a PE teacher before earning his doctorate at LMJU and going on to become an associate professor at Durham University and professor of sociology of education at the University of Glasgow.

Glasgow university also announced a review into Arday's previous academic work.

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Last weekend, Arday cancelled an event promoting his memoir.

Publisher Simon & Schuster previously said that the book, Great And Unfortunate Things, would be published in the UK on 27 August. It was released in the US earlier this week.

The book tells the story of his life from being non-verbal until the age of 11 and unable to read or write until 18, then going through a series of "improbable triumphs and heartbreaking setbacks", before being appointed professor of sociology of education at Cambridge.

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A baby born with a rare heart defect is at the center of a bitter legal dispute between the child’s biological parents and the woman who gave birth to the baby as a surrogate against their wishes.

McKenna West, 28, agreed to act as a surrogate for Los Angeles couple Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar.

The couple opted to terminate the pregnancy at around 20 weeks after it was revealed that the boy had a rare and life-threatening congenital heart condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome, in which the left side of the heart doesn’t develop fully.

According to a copy of the surrogacy contract obtained by the Dallas Morning News, the document West signed allows for the intended parents to choose abortion in the case of a fetal anomaly.

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However, West refused to have an abortion and fled to Texas, a state where abortion is banned. There, she sought specialists who could treat the baby’s defect.

On Aug. 12, West gave birth to the baby in Dallas and is now seeking custody of the child.

The case drew national attention, notably from anti-abortion activists who provided West with legal representation and had helped her travel to Texas for medical care.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton got involved and took legal action, arguing in court that the biological parents were required to provide lifesaving medical care to the child under Texas law.

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The court order was successfully issued on Aug. 11, requiring that lifesaving care be provided once the baby was born. The order barred West from presenting herself as the baby’s parent or guardian and prevented her from making any medical decisions on the child’s behalf.

The order also barred West from having any contact with the child after birth, though her lawyer, Lincoln Wilson, told the Times that West plans to continue pursuing custody.

A temporary restraining order will prevent the parents from removing the child from Texas until a hearing in late August.

The baby, whom activists have called “Baby Gabriel,” while his legal parents have chosen a different name, must still undergo weeks of surgeries for hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

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A North Dakota mother is accused of killing two of her young children and injuring a third.

Kailey Erhart, 22, was arrested Aug. 6 and faces multiple charges including murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, terrorizing with a dangerous weapon and domestic violence.

Mandan police officers responded to a home that day where they allegedly found Erhart covered in blood and holding a kitchen knife to her throat.

She reportedly made a comment about suicide before dropping the knife and being taken into custody.

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Inside the home, per the affidavit, police also found the bodies of her three children, all of whom had cuts across their necks.

Erhart’s 3-year-old and 5-month-old were pronounced dead at local hospitals, while her 1-year-old survived after undergoing surgery, the affidavit states.

According to the affidavit, Erhart allegedly chased the children’s father and grandmother with a knife before the fatal attacks.

She also allegedly pointed a gun at the children’s father and told him, “Say goodbye to your kids,” in a video recorded on his phone. He was allegedly able to take the gun away from her after a struggle.

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More than two months after New Jersey mother Brooke Hanlon, 35, was found stabbed to death inside her Chester home, her family is sharing more details about the beloved wife, daughter, sister and friend that she was, as her killing remains unsolved.

Hanlon was found dead on June 6, and the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office has been investigating the case as a homicide with “multiple sharp force injuries” as her cause of death.

The Prosecutor’s Office is the lead investigative agency over the case and has not yet revealed a suspect or person of interest.

Conor Hanlon was the person who called 911 to report he found his wife unconscious and not breathing on the floor of their home.

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In the frantic call, he is heard asking the operator to give him “CPR instructions,” then says “there’s a laceration” on his wife’s body.

Brooke was a therapist who “loved her work,” and “had tremendous compassion” for her clients.

Fox News Digital has repeatedly reached out to Conor Hanlon for comment.

He has not been charged with any crime or wrongdoing.

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All That alum Christy Knowings has died at the age of 46, according to a report.

TMZ reported on Thursday, Aug. 13, citing an unnamed family member, that Knowings had an asthma attack and was hospitalized on Friday, Aug. 7. She was put on life support at a Los Angeles-area hospital, her family member told the outlet, before she died on Tuesday, Aug. 11.

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Knowings starred in over 30 episodes of Nickelodeon’s All That, starting in 1997. She made her final appearance on the sketch comedy show in 1999.

She also appeared in the 2009 film Mother and Child, and has a writing credit on the film. Her most recent credits were three appearances on Sesame Street, ranging from 2009 to 2011.

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A 40-year-old man is accused of killing three members of his family in the middle of the night at a North Carolina golf community, according to investigators.

The bodies were found at 8 a.m. Wednesday at a home on Ryder Cup Boulevard in the Oakwood Hills Golf Community, the Moore County Sheriff’s Office said.

Demetrius Louis Aggelis has been identified as a suspect, the sheriff’s office said in an Aug. 12 news release.

The victims include his stepfather Bobby Farris, 63, his mother Christina Aggelis, 62, and his niece Trinity Thomas, 20, officials said.

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“(Demetrius) Aggelis reported that he had gone to the residence at 115 Ryder Cup Boulevard to pick up his stepfather, Bobby Farris, and take him to an airport for a scheduled flight. Aggelis stated that when he arrived, he found all three victims unresponsive,” the sheriff’s office said.

Aggelis told investigators that he was “several miles away” at his home when the armed individual was recorded at the home.

However, Flock Safety cameras recorded a vehicle linked to Aggelis traveling near the crime scene before and after the killings, the sheriff’s office said.

“Aggelis has been charged with three counts of murder and one count of first-degree burglary and has admitted responsibility for the deaths of the three victims,” the sheriff’s office said.

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A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder after his mother and teenage brother were found dead inside their Acton, Massachusetts, home, with authorities also revealing alleged ChatGPT searches about killing family members.

Arjun Aravind, 17, is facing two counts of murder and two counts of assault and battery on household or family members. The charges stem from the deaths of his mother, Sudha Venkatesan, 45, and his 14-year-old brother, Siddharth Aravind.

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According to Ryan, the investigation found that Arjun had recently shown concerning behavior. This allegedly included using the internet and ChatGPT to search for “theoretical ideas or fantasies regarding killing his family.”

“It is alleged that Arjun fatally assaulted his mother and brother inside their home yesterday before fleeing the scene,” Ryan said in the news release.

Authorities believe Arjun left the home in his mother’s 2014 green Honda Accord. Police later issued an alert for him after they were unable to locate him.

He was found Wednesday morning on Andrew Avenue while officers were responding to an unrelated alarm call.

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The Chief Medical Examiner will determine the exact causes of death. Authorities said both victims had suffered some level of trauma and are investigating what type of weapon may have been involved.

In addition to the murder and assault charges, Arjun is facing charges of using a vehicle without authority and theft of a motor vehicle.

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