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As "Desperate Housewives" entered its third season, actress Nicollette Sheridan became "concerned" that she was not receiving the same compensation as her co-stars. 

The remarks came in a Los Angeles Superior Court as part of Sheridan's $6 million wrongful termination suit against against ABC and the show's creator Marc Cherry. 

In her suit, Sheridan claims she was unfairly ousted from the series after complaining that Cherry had slapped her during a 2008 argument. Her character, Edie Britt, was killed off after five seasons on the hit series. 

Sheridan did not...

The jury in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray reached a verdict Monday morning, TheWrap has confirmed. The verdict is expected to be read at 1 p.m. PT.

After a weeks-long trial, the jury went into deliberations Thursday.

Murray, the physician of singer Michael Jackson at the time of his June 2009 death, is accused of causing Jackson's death by giving the singer propofol to treat his insomnia. While Murray told police that he had given Jackson the drug nearly every night for the two months that he had been treating him, the doctor's defense team maintains that Jackson self-administered the fatal dose.

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office...

It's all in the people's hands now.

The involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray went to jury Thursday, following passionate closing arguments from prosecutor David Walgren and defense attorney Ed Chernoff.

During closing arguments, Walgren accused Murray of performing an "obscene experiment" on Jackson for treating his insomnia with propofol. He also slammed defense witness Paul White, accusing him of foisting "junk science" on the court.

Chernoff, meanwhile, maintained that Jackson was responsible for his own death. During a rambling closing argument, he also suggested that Jackson's celebrity status was the only reason that the case went to court.

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The involuntary manslaughter trial went into extra innings Monday, with anesthesiology expert Dr. Paul White still on the stand at the end of the day, despite hopes that Murray's defense would rest today.

While the trial might be dragging on, however, the energy level remained high, with prosecuting attorney David Walgren hammering away at White in an effort to discredit his previous testimony for Murray's defense.

In chipping away at White's testimony, Walgren used one of the most powerful tools at his disposal -- White's own words, in the form of articles he'd written about the outpatient use of anesthetics. Walgren rattled off passage after passage written by White about the...