The family of the late Kobe Bryant has agreed to a $28.5 million settlement with Los Angeles County to resolve the remaining claims in a lawsuit over deputies and firefighters sharing grisly photos of the NBA star, his 13-year-old daughter and other victims killed in a 2020 helicopter crash, attorneys and court filings said Tuesday.

A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday at the rape trial of "That '70s Show" actor Danny Masterson after jurors, who were leaning strongly toward acquitting him, were deadlocked following the month-long trial in which the Church of Scientology played a supporting role.

The judge at the Los Angeles trial of Harvey Weinstein dropped four of the 11 sexual assault charges against the producer Tuesday after prosecutors said they would not proceed with the counts involving one of his accusers.

A woman testified Monday that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her in a hotel room during the Toronto International Film Festival in 1991, then did it again when she went to confront him in the same hotel during the same festival 17 years later.

Kobe Bryant's widow was awarded $16 million US as part of a $31 million jury verdict Wednesday against Los Angeles County for deputies and firefighters sharing grisly photos of the NBA star, their13-year-old daughter and other victims killed in a 2020 helicopter crash.

The family of the late actor Bill Paxton has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit against a Los Angeles hospital and the surgeon who performed his heart surgery shortly before he died in 2017, according to a court filing Friday.

Vanessa Bryant testified Friday that she was only beginning to grieve the loss of her husband, basketball star Kobe Bryant, and their 13-year-old daughter when she learned that sheriff's deputies and firefighters had shot and shared photos of their bodies at the site of their fatal helicopter crash.