Brian Melley, The Associated Press

Brian Melley

The Associated Press

Los Angeles, CA, United States

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Past articles by Brian:

Prosecutor calls Kevin Spacey 'a sexual bully' in London assault trial

Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty to a dozen charges including sexual assault, indecent assault and causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent. → Read More

Kevin Spacey faces sex assault trial in London on allegations over decade old

The charges involving men now in their 30s or 40s date from 2001 to 2013 — covering most of the decade when Kevin Spacey lived in Britain. → Read More

Prince Harry lawsuits: What to know as court fight begins with British tabloid publisher

Prince Harry is going where other British royals haven't for over a century: to a courtroom witness stand as he begins to take on three of Britain's best-known tabloid publishers. → Read More

Hugh Grant's lawsuit alleging illegal snooping by The Sun tabloid cleared for trial

A London court has rejected an attempt by the publisher of The Sun newspaper to throw out a lawsuit by actor Hugh Grant alleging that journalists and investigators it hired illegally snooped on him → Read More

UK court: Prince Harry cannot personally pay for police protection when visiting

A lawyer for the government argued in court that it was not appropriate to allow hiring “police officers as private bodyguards for the wealthy." → Read More

Video shows struggle for hammer during Pelosi attack

Newly released video shows the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting for control of a hammer with his assailant during an attack in the couple’s San Francisco home last year → Read More

Newly released video shows struggle for hammer during attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband

The body-camera footage shows suspect David DePape wrest the tool from 82-year-old Paul Pelosi and lunge toward him with the hammer over his head. → Read More

Court releases graphic video of hammer attack on Paul Pelosi

The newly released video contains body camera footage of Paul Pelosi fighting for control of a hammer before he is struck by the attacker. → Read More

A look at California’s deadly back-to-back mass shootings

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the course of 48 hours, two gunmen went on shooting rampages at both ends of California that left 18 dead and 10 wounded. The unrelated massacres at a dance hall in a Los Ange… → Read More

Gunman didn't know Monterey Park dance hall victims: Sheriff

The 72-year-old gunman who sprayed bullets into a California ballroom dance hall, killing 11 people, had no known connection with victims → Read More

Sheriff: Gunman who killed 11 didn’t know dance hall victims

Tran opened fire on a mostly elderly crowd of dancers at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, killing 11 people and wounding nine, police said. → Read More

Sheriff: Gunman didn’t know Monterey Park dance hall victims

Tran opened fire on a mostly elderly crowd of dancers at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, killing 11 people and wounding nine, police said. → Read More

Sheriff: Gunman who killed 11 didn’t know dance hall victims

Tran opened fire on a mostly elderly crowd of dancers at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, killing 11 people and wounding nine, police said. → Read More

Sheriff: Gunman who killed 11 didn’t know dance hall victims

Tran opened fire on a mostly elderly crowd of dancers at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, killing 11 people and wounding nine, police said. → Read More

Sheriff: Gunman didn’t know Monterey Park dance hall victims

Tran opened fire on a mostly elderly crowd of dancers at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, killing 11 people and wounding nine, police said. → Read More

Sheriff: Gunman didn’t know Monterey Park dance hall victims

Tran opened fire on a mostly elderly crowd of dancers at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, killing 11 people and wounding nine, police said. → Read More

Sheriff: Gunman who killed 11 didn’t know dance hall victims

Tran opened fire on a mostly elderly crowd of dancers at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, killing 11 people and wounding nine, police said. → Read More

Sheriff: Gunman who killed 11 didn’t know dance hall victims

Tran opened fire on a mostly elderly crowd of dancers at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, killing 11 people and wounding nine, police said. → Read More

Chief defends delay telling public of mass shooter at-large

The shooting at Star Ballroom Dance Studio at 10:22 p.m. Saturday occurred just an hour or so after tens of thousands of people attended Lunar New Year festivities in the city. → Read More

Chief defends delay telling public of mass shooter at-large

The shooting at Star Ballroom Dance Studio at 10:22 p.m. Saturday occurred just an hour or so after tens of thousands of people attended Lunar New Year festivities in the city. → Read More