'Twilight' star arrested for DUI

Kiowa Gordon had active warrant for failure to appear on earlier charges

By Josh Grossberg

(Embry Call, you better call home -- because you're in big trouble, mister).

"Twlight" star Kiowa Gordon, who plays the shapeshifting werewolf in the mega-popular big-screen franchise, was collared on suspicion of drinking and driving Tuesday in Arizona.

We wonder what Team Jacob would have to say about this?

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The Maricopa County Sheriff's Department confirms that the 21-year-old actor was taken into custody on a DUI "liquor/drugs/vapor" combo. After running his name through the database, deputies discovered an active warrant out for Gordon's arrest for failing to appear in court on previous charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and giving alcohol to minors.
 
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The actor remains in lockup.

No further information was immediately available.
 
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Gordon reprises his role as Embry in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn," the final films based on Stephenie Meyer's romantic-fantasy series. The first of the two-part finale opens Nov. 18.

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Kiowa Gordon poses for a mug shot after his arrest on suspicion of DUI and an outstanding warrant.

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#Radio personality Fred Imus dies in Arizona at 69

TUCSON, Ariz. — A spokesman for Don Imus says that the controversial radio personality's brother, Fred Imus, has died in his Tucson home. He was 69.

Fred Imus co-hosted his own satellite radio show on Sirius XM called "Fred's Trailer Park Bash" and wrote country songs.

Matthew Hiltzik, a spokesman for Don Imus, said Tuesday that Fred Imus was found dead inside his trailer in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday. He says it's believed that he died in his sleep.

Hiltzik says the Imus brothers were "very close" and that Fred Imus often was a guest on his brother's own radio show, ending each call with, "I love you."

Fred Imus, who was twice divorced, is survived by three sons.

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Warren Jeffs, polygamist sect leader, gets life in jail

 

Religious head Warren Jeffs received maximum sentences on both counts

Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting two underage followers he took as brides.

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints leader was handed the maximum sentence possible.

Last Thursday, the 55-year-old was found guilty of forcing two girls into "spiritual marriages" and fathering a child with one of them.

The charges followed a raid on a remote west Texas ranch in 2008.
Jeffs stood quietly in a Texas court on Tuesday as the jury's decision, which only took 30 minutes, was read.
 
Pregnant underage girls
He would be eligible for parole in 35 years, said the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Jeffs had referred to himself as a prophet, and the Mormon breakaway sect he leads believes polygamy is the path to heaven.

During the trial, prosecutors presented DNA evidence to show Jeffs had fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl, and an audio recording of him sexually assaulting a 12-year-old.

The jury heard other tapes in which Jeffs was heard instructing his young wives on how to satisfy him sexually, which he said would please God.

Jeffs, who insisted on acting as his own legal defence during the earlier part of the trial, argued he had been prosecuted because of his religious beliefs.

The sect leader refused to speak during the sentencing portion of the trial, with a defence lawyer telling the judge his client had instructed his legal team not to speak for him.

Jeffs, who had stood expressionless and silent before the jury for nearly half hour during his closing arguments, called only one defence witness to the stand - a man who read from Mormon scripture.

Prosecutors said the religious head had spent years travelling around North America and avoiding arrest, ultimately landing on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.

An FBI agent said during the trial that fathers who handed over their daughters to Jeffs were rewarded with young brides of their own.

"If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree," Jeffs wrote in notes, seized from his Texas ranch.

When police raided the Texas ranch they found women dressed in frontier-style dresses and underage girls who were clearly pregnant.

The 10,000-strong sect, which dominates the towns of Colorado City in Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, split from the mainstream Mormon church more than a century ago.
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