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Mads Mikkelsen; Johnny Depp.Photo: Daniele Venturelli/WireImage; Pascal Le Segretain/GettyMads Mikkelsenhas some big shoes to fill in theupcomingFantastic Beastsfilm.The Danish actor says hewishes he could have spokentoJohnny Deppbefore taking over the role of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in theHarry Potterspinoff franchise’s third installment.“I mean, obviously, they were going to do the film, and obviously he was not involved anymore,” Mikkelsen, 55, toldThe Sunday Timesin an interview published Saturday.Mikkelsenreplaced Depp in November. Depp, 58,exited the roleafter losing a libel suit againstThe Sun, which referred to him as a “wife beater” in a story about his ex-wifeAmber Heard’s assault allegations that he has denied....

Alex and Maggie Murdaugh. Maggie Murdaugh, who was murdered in June along with her youngest son, Paul, left everything she owned to her husband, Alex, her last will and testament shows. Maggie, 52, signed the will on August 15, 2005, according to the document,The Island Packetwas the first to report. When she made out her will, her sons, Buster, 26, and Paul, 22, were children. The document shows that Maggie left the family’s sprawling estate in Islandton, S....

Photo: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Maki Kaji, the puzzle publisher who helped make Sudoku one of the world’s most popular games, died of bile duct cancer, his company announced. He was 69. “Maki Kaji, who spread the love of puzzles in the world as ‘Godfather of Sudoku,’ passed away at 10:54 PM on August 10, 2021 at home in Tokyo,” Nikoli Co. wrote in astatement. Kaji wanted it featured in his magazine — but he had one problem....

Maks and Val Chmerkovskiy.Photo: Savor After Hours MaksimandVal Chmerkovskiyare uniting on stage this summer for anintimateand immersive dance show — and they’re bringing the wine! TheDancing with the Starspros and brothers are heading to Napa, Calif. this summer, where they’ll headlineSAVOR After Hours, a unique cabaret and wine experience taking place at the JaM Cellars Ballroom at the Napa Valley Opera House. “Basically it’s a different take on wine tasting and what that experience can be, because wine has an incredible culture,” Val, 36, tells PEOPLE exclusively....

Malala Yousafzai.Photo: Marla Aufmuth/Getty As U.S. troops have continued their withdrawal and evacuation from Afghanistan, which is now under Taliban control,Malala Yousafzaiwas in a Boston hospital bed — recovering from her sixth surgery to repair the damage a Taliban fighter did to her body nearly a decade ago. In a post published Tuesday onPodium, the 24-year-old Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist viscerally details her injuries and treatment. And she shares how she’s been responding to unfolding events in Afghanistan while working to get women and girls out of the country....

Mama June Shannon.Photo: Robin L Marshall/Getty Mama June Shannonis not interested in weight loss drugs. TheMama June: Road to Redemptionstar, 43, spoke toDailyMailand admitted that she doesn’t plan on trying Ozempic, an FDA-approved prescription medication for people with type 2 diabetes. It’s one of the brand names for semaglutide, which works in the brain to impact satiety. “I don’t want to try Ozempic because, honestly, I’ve heard about so many bad side effects,” Shannon told the outlet....

Photo: Facebook The manaccused of killing his familyin their upscale home near Disney World was heavily in debt and faces a federal health care fraud charge stemming from his physical therapy business. Osceola County Sheriff Russ Gibson said Wednesday thatAnthony Todt, 44, allegedly confessed to killing his wife, Megan Todt, 42, and their children, Alek, 13, Tyler, 11 and 4-year-old Zoey, along with the family dog. Todt faces four counts of first-degree homicide and one count of animal cruelty....

Photo: FBI A 34-year-old man has been formally charged with the abduction, rape and murder of Hania Aguilar,the 13-year-old North Carolina girl who was taken from a yard on Nov. 5, where she had been waiting for a ride to the school bus, PEOPLE confirms. Michael Ray McLellan has been charged with first-degree murder, first-degree forcible rape, statutory rape of a person under 15 years of age or younger, first-degree sexual offense, statutory sex offense with a person 15 years or younger, first-degree kidnapping, felony larceny, felony restraint, abduction of child and concealment of a death, according to online court records....

Photo: Courtesy Ashton Matheny Hoehn would have faced life in prison if convicted of the charge,according to station KSTP. On Sept. 4, hepleaded guilty to two lesser charges in the case: kidnapping and providing false information to authorities in their investigation court records show. He will be sentenced for those charges at a later date and faces up to 20 years in prison,station WDAY reports. Prosecutor Leah Jo Viste did not immediately return calls for comment on the acquittal....

The Bennett family.Photo: 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office A 61-year-old man learned this week he’ll die behind prison bars after being sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for the 1984 murders of a Colorado couple and their 7-year-old daughter, PEOPLE confirms. In 2018, a DNA match linked Alex Ewing to the Jan. 15, 1984, killings of Bruce and Debra Bennett, as well as their daughter Melissa. All three were beaten to death with a claw hammer....

A California businessman has been found guilty of brutally killing a family of four and dumping their bodies in shallow graves in the Mojave Desert.The verdict in the murder case againstCharles “Chase” Merrittwas read in a San Bernardino courtroom today.Merritt, 62, was convicted of killing his former business associate Joseph McStay, 40; Stay’s wife, Summer, 43; and their two children: Gianni, 4, and Joseph Jr., 3. He could face the death penalty when he is sentenced....

A California man never thought he’d see a sentimental ring he shared with his late husband again. Then, 23 years after it was lost, the ring found its way back to him.Ismael Barba’s husband, Pete Brown, died of cancer last May, according toCBS station KVOR. Recently, he got a message out of the blue from somebody asking if he had lost a Nogales High School ring in Lake Tahoe.“My jaw dropped,” Barba, an alum, told the outlet....

Erik Bravo.Photo: Marco Ugarte/AP/Shutterstock A routine trip home from work nearly ended in disaster for one Mexico City man who says his decision to switch subway cars may have saved his life. Erik Bravo, 34, was riding the elevated subway Number 12 line on Monday nightwhen it collapsed, killing 25 people, including several children, and injuring approximately 80 more, theAssociated Pressreported. “In some way, I feel grateful to someone, something up there, that for some reason decided it was not my time,” he told the outlet....