LOS ANGELES - Columbus Short won't be returning to "Scandal" following his legal troubles.
The 31-year-old actor said Friday that he's exiting the ABC political thriller after three seasons.
"At this time, I must confirm my exit from a show I've called home for three years, with what is the most talented ensemble on television today," Short said in a statement. "I would like to first thank Shonda Rhimes for the opportunity to work with such an amazing cast."
The announcement of Short's exit from the series created by Rhimes comes amid two pending criminal cases, one accusing him of misdemeanor spousal battery and another accusing him of felony battery that seriously injured a man during an altercation at a West Hollywood restaurant in March.
Short was charged Feb. 14 with misdemeanor spousal battery and has pleaded not guilty in that case. A judge ordered him to stay away from his wife, Tuere Short, at a March 5 court hearing.
Affidavit: Bieber high-fives friends after egging
LOS ANGELES - Surveillance footage from Justin Bieber's home appears to show the pop star high-fiving friends and celebrating after throwing eggs at a neighbor's home in January, an investigator's affidavit released Friday shows.
The description of Bieber's reaction to the incident that authorities say caused thousands of dollars in damage to the neighbor's home is included in documents filed to support a search warrant obtained in March. A Los Angeles County sheriff's detective obtained the warrant for Bieber's account with the online photo-sharing site Instagram, searching for evidence to match his outfit with the surveillance footage.
Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to charge Bieber in the egg-throwing incident, which happened Jan. 9 at the singer's home in a gated community in Calabasas.
Death of friend Garcia Marquez hits Castro hard
HAVANA - Fidel Castro was hit hard by last week's death of longtime friend and Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cuba's No. 2 leader said Friday.
Speaking in Havana as he signed a book of condolences at the Colombian Embassy, Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Castro was left "dismayed."
Castro has not commented publicly on Garcia Marquez's passing, though he sent a floral arrangement to a memorial ceremony in Mexico City, where the author lived the final three decades of his life.
The two were close for years after Garcia Marquez came to Cuba to work for Prensa Latina, the state news agency founded by guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Computer images by Warhol in '85 finally unearthed
PITTSBURGH - Cybersleuths have unearthed images that Andy Warhol apparently made on a computer in 1985.
The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh says in a release that the artist had a contract with Commodore International to produce images on one of its Amiga home computers. The old images recently were extracted from disks by members of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club in collaboration with museum staff.
The museum says the images vary from doodles and camera shots of a desktop to versions of Warhol's classic images of a banana, Marilyn Monroe and a Campbell's soup can.
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