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See more about this report from CNN affiliates WESH , WFTV and watch "Dr. Drew" tonight on HLN at 9 ET for more on why revenge and hatred could possibly lead someone to commit a crime like this.

(CNN) -- The suspected ringleader of a group arrested for allegedly luring a 15-year-old boy to a Florida home, shooting him several times, burning his body in a fire pit and putting the remains into paint cans, could face the death penalty if convicted, his attorney said Thursday.

But defense attorney Charles Holloman added, "We are not admitting any guilt at this time."

Michael Bargo, 18, appeared in court Thursday where he was denied bond in the killing of Seath Jackson, an act that allegedly involved five other people Sunday in the central Florida city of Ocala, according to a statement from the Marion County Sheriff's Office.

Holloman said Jackson and Bargo had dated the same girl, though not at the same time.

Jackson at one point went to Bargo's home yelling and screaming in the front yard, threatening to burn down Bargo's house, Holloman added. CNN cannot independently confirm that statement.

Prosecutors say two females later lured Jackson to the home, where he was beaten with a wooden object. He was then shot several times with a .22 caliber gun, authorities said.

As the wounded teen attempted to flee, he was tackled and shot again, according to the sheriff's statement. His body was allegedly placed in a sleeping bag and burned in a fire pit outside the home.

His ashes were placed into several paint containers and thrown into a large garbage can, authorities said.

Authorities said they learned of the alleged plot from a member of the group who admitted witnessing the killing.

Four adults and two minors have been charged in connection with the death.

Bargo, Charlie Kay Ely, 18; Justin Soto, 20, and two minors face first-degree murder charges, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said.

James Haven, 37, faces charges of accessory to the crime for allegedly helping to dispose of Jackson's remains and driving one of the suspects out of the area to avoid arrest, authorities said.

Sheriff's department documents gave little information on what led to the killing other than brief statements by suspects about a dispute and a growing hatred.

Divers on Wednesday found three paint buckets in a water-filled rock quarry that are suspected of containing the victim's remains, authorities said.

The contents of the buckets were delivered to a forensic specialist at the University of Florida in Gainesville to determine if the ashes and bone fragments match those of Jackson.

Haven, who is not represented by an attorney, posted a $10,000 bond and was released Wednesday morning.

The two minors involved in the case are currently being represented by public defenders, who could not comment.

A jury trial that was expected to take place on May 2 has been postponed, said Holloman.

Soto's public defender, Bill Miller, would not comment on the case. Ely is not represented by an attorney.

Bargo also had a restraining order issued against him, forbidding contact with a person named Calib, who is not connected to the Jackson case, Holloman said.

How very mature of these two.

Charlie Sheen's exes, Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller, have formed an unlikely bond and talk "quite frequently" with each other.

The two even planned on having a play date with their kids last week, just before Brooke relapsed and checked back into rehab.

An insider says that the two are becoming close friends, adding:

"Brooke and Denise talk quite frequently. It was Denise's idea to get together for dinner with Brooke with their children. Denise's children with Charlie, Sam and Lola, have spent time in the past with their half-siblings, Bob and Max. Denise wants all the children to hang out together.

Denise has reached out to Brooke since her relapse to offer her support. Denise wants to have the girls spend time with their brothers, when she is assured that Brooke is sober, and wants it be a fun outing for everyone, with no drama. It's about the kids forming a bond, and nothing else."

Denise insists that all of Charlie's kids become close and knows that he's not capable of having custody of his children. The source continues:

"Denise is fiercely protective of the girls and will not permit them to be in any environment that has the possibility of causing any emotional harm to them.

Denise makes a mama bear that is protective of her cubs look like a wimp. Let?s face it, Denise has very good reasons to feel the way she does. Denise went through hell with Charlie and she won't let that happen to her girls, period."

We admire her tenacity to keep all the children together. If anything, Brooke and Charlie's sons Bob and Max need stability more than ever. With a father on a tourpedo of anger and a mother in sober living, we're glad that Denise is willing to step in and be a mature adult by bonding with Brooke and her sons.

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: bob sheen, bond, brooke mueller, lola sheen, max sheen, sam sheen

Posted: April 21, 2011 at 3:20 pm

20 April 2011 Last updated at 17:23 ET

The last year has seen a huge rise in sales of Apple's iPhones, but iPad sales disappointed

Latest profits for the computer giant Apple beat hopes, including a higher-than-expected rise in iPhone sales.

Net income for the three months to March jumped 85% on the same period a year ago, with iPhone sales of 18.65m - a rise of 113%.

The figures are the latest in a string of good results from the US's technology companies.

Intel's figures, released on Wednesday, were also well above hopes and helped share prices to a three-year high.

Apple reported quarterly net profits of $5.99bn (£3.6bn), 95% up on the $3bn it made a year ago. Revenue was $24.67bn, a rise of 83%.

Sales of the company's computers were strongly higher, up by 28% from a year ago driven by its tweaked MacBook Pro.

Apple's figures were not uniformly positive. It sold 4.69m iPad tablet computers in the quarter, below expectations.

Another disappointment was sales of its one-time star, the iPod, down by 17% on the year at 9m units.

Most analysts were enthusiastic about the figures.

Channing Smith, portfolio manager at Capital Advisors growth fund, said: "Dynamite numbers across the board. The only hiccup is lower than expected iPad numbers."

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said in a statement: "With quarterly revenue growth of 83% and profit growth of 95% we're firing on all cylinders."

Mr Jobs, who went on medical leave in January with an undisclosed illness, continued: "We will continue to innovate on all fronts throughout the remainder of the year."

The day-to-day running of Apple is currently being done by chief operating officer Tim Cook.

No way! Not even! We're calling BS on this - and if Matthew Morrison proves us wrong, we're going to be devastated!

Sources are claiming that Matthew is using his upcoming debut album as "a launching pad to leave Glee.? He supposedly is "desperate" to break free from the show and is hoping his new friendships with Gwyneth Paltrow and Elton John will help him launch his career beyond the confines of McKinley High.

But, but, but?WHY???

The show catapulted him into everyone's radar - just like Lea, Cory and Dianna - and gave him the freedom to make this album while still doing the show. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to us! Why wouldn't he have any loyalty towards Ryan Murphy and Co. for that?!

BS! Completely BS!

Right, Matt???

UPDATE: Cool your jets, Gleeks. Mr. Schue isn't resigning. His rep was contacted for comment and confirmed that: ?This is not true at all.? He isn't leaving the show and more importantly, he doesn't want to leave the show.

And somewhere in Lima, Ohio, Sue Sylvester is torturing a Cheerio in a blind rage.

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Tags: debut album, ego, glee, matthew morrison, ryan murphy

Posted: April 20, 2011 at 3:30 pm

We think they went with the right Hemsworth!

So far, we're hearing nothing but good things about Chris Hemsworth and his role in Thor, but surprisingly, Chris wasn't director Kenneth Branagh's first choice for the hammer-wielding hottie. After the first round of auditions, Kenneth had a shortlist of four actors he wanted for the part. Chris was on that list - but his brother Liam Hemsworth was!

Chris laughs about it now, but he admits that he and his brother are "competitive, but in the best way." However, their rivalry didn't get in the way of Liam offering his bro some tips that helped him make a better impression when he was ultimately called back a second time.

Sounds like whatever advice he gave you was pretty sound! And it all worked out for the best, anyway. You get to play Thor in a major superhero franchise, and now he's got a part in the next tween fantasy craze!

And we get to ogle you both!!! A win-win!

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: advice, auditions, brother, chris hemsworth, liam hemsworth, thor

Posted: April 19, 2011 at 7:40 pm

Chicago (CNN) -- Another round of severe storms Tuesday could strike Oklahoma, one of the states hit by a wave of violent weather last week, forecasters say.

National Weather Service forecasts early Tuesday include the possibility of heavy winds, large hail and tornadoes also in Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas, western Tennessee, Indiana and Missouri. The cities at risk of severe weather include St. Louis, Indianapolis and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The threat of heavy storms is predicted to diminish in those areas on Wednesday morning, but the Northeast could experience isolated outbreaks of severe storms later in the day, forecasters said.

The South, according to forecasters, has little chance of suffering a repeat Tuesday of the violent storms and tornadoes that killed at least 45 people last week.

Three days after the largest tornado outbreak since 2008 raked the Southeast, the focus has shifted in the region to cleanup.

"Everybody's been coming together," said Doug Western, pastor of Kendale Acres Free Will Baptist Church in Sanford, North Carolina. Along with the adjacent parsonage, the church escaped largely unscathed from the massive tornado Saturday that reduced several surrounding homes to sticks.

"That's the wonderful thing about this. We had people we didn't even know coming by wanting to help," said Western, whose church has served as a meal center for many neighbors and a base for delivering food and water to other neighbors by golf cart.

At least 97 tornadoes struck between Thursday and Saturday, according to National Weather Service records. Yet more tornadoes will probably be confirmed on top of the 249 reports received during the three-day period, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.

Twisters hit 12 states: Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Illinois, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. The reports are based on preliminary weather service reports that the agency warns are often revised downward after more complete information becomes available.

Of the 45 deaths reported, 22 were in North Carolina, six in Virginia, seven in Arkansas, seven in Alabama, one in Mississippi and two in Oklahoma.

The deaths in North Carolina are the first from tornadoes since 2008, when two people died. In 1984, 42 people were killed in a tornado outbreak there.

Hardest hit from the latest storms was rural Bertie County, where 11 of North Carolina's 22 deaths were reported and 67 of 130 homes across the state were destroyed.

At Shaw University in Raleigh, President Irma McClaurin decided to call off the rest of the semester because of damage to the campus.

Julius Stukes, Jr. used a video camera to document the damage the storm wreaked across the campus.

"All of the offices are done. Oh, my God, this used to be an office; it's not anymore," Stukes exclaims on the video recording he provided to CNN affiliate WNCN. "Our campus is done. The whole campus is done."

In Virginia, Gov. Robert McDonnell toured storm damage Monday and met with people affected by some of the six confirmed tornadoes that hit the state to discuss the pace of recovery operations.

"It looks as though the resources that have been dispatched are working incredibly well," McDonnell said.

Later Monday, the governor sent a letter to President Barack Obama, requesting a federal disaster declaration to expedite assistance to all Virginia communities -- including hard-hit Pulaski County -- affected by the storm.

The 97 tornadoes confirmed so far makes the outbreak the most active since June 2008, when 136 tornadoes ripped through the Midwest, according to National Weather Service records.

In February 2008, a 131-tornado outbreak struck the Southeast and Ohio Valley on Super Tuesday primary voting day, killing 57 people and causing more than $1 billion in damages, according to the National Climatic Data Center.

And in April 1974, an outbreak of 148 tornadoes struck in 24 hours, killing 330 people, according to National Weather Service records. That is the most tornadoes in a 24-hour period in U.S. history, Morris said.

>>> we are back now with the story of lane garrison , an up and coming hollywood star who made one tragic mistake that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old boy and a real life stay behind bars for the star of the show " prison break ." he'll join us for his first sit-down interview since his release from prison but first here's miguel almaguer.

>> i got something for you this time.

>> reporter: in the fox television series " prison break ," lane garrison was on the verge of becoming a star. a young, promising actor who made it to the silver screen .

>> my career was just taking off and i thought, here we go.

>> reporter: in an instant, the actor known for playing a convict became one. december 2006 , garrison, 26 at the time, was invited to a high school party.

>> this was a night of just bad decisions.

>> reporter: teenagers were drinking, so was he.

>> i had two drinks, i downed two shots.

>> reporter: garrison got into his car with three teens.

>> to bottom line it, i never should have been at that party. i never should have had drinks and i should have never drove.

>> reporter: his blood alcohol level , twice the legal limit. garrison slammed into a tree. two 15-year-olds were injured. the third, a 17-year-old was killed.

>> i am guilty, your honor.

>> reporter: convicted of vehicular manslaughter, garrison faced the victim's family in court.

>> there can be no doubt that the defendant is reckless. he's careless. and above all, he's selfish.

>> reporter: the sentence? three years, four months. his first stop, the l.a. county jail.

>> you are basically thrown up against the wall. your clothes are stripped off. you're standing there naked. they check every orifice of your body. they give you a number. your name is gone. my number was f-95770.

>> reporter: the actor wasn't on set anymore. he would spend the next 20 months moving from prison to prison.

>> i can remember all eight prisons, everybody in them.

>> reporter: surviving the yard? not his only worry.

>> you have to trust that one of these guys when you close your eyes is not just going to wake up in the middle of the night , pull you off your rack, beat you or stab you.

>> reporter: garrison says he's lucky to be alive. do you think you deserved to be there?

>> absolutely. 100%.

>> reporter: in 2009 , released early for good behavior, lane garrison returned to the l.a. county jail for the first time with us. what's it like being back?

>> it's been a while .

>> reporter: garrison paid his debt but said he won't forget his crime.

>> i say a prayer for the family every night.

>> reporter: a young hollywood actor with an uncertain future and an unforgettable past. for "today" miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles .

>> lane, good morning.

>> good morning.

>> good to see you. i wonder if people understand. you were released from prison in 2009 .

>> right.

>> so you have tried to remain quiet, stay under the radar for a while. why are you speaking out now?

>> i think part of it was once you do an amount of time it take as while to adjust back into society. i really wasn't ready to speak to anyone. you know, out of respect for the family, i didn't want to say anything. but i knew as people were asking me more questions that eventually i was going to have to talk. i felt there were just blurbs mentioned about me. i would say something about prison and it was like, lane complains about jail or says it was hell. the message was, hey, if you don't want to go through what i went through and you don't want a family going through the pain, don't drink and drive.

>> when you look at the night of the accident, so many bad decisions made in one evening. is it fair or unfair to say you felt the way a lot of stars in hollywood do and young people in general. you felt invincible.

>> i think for me, i had been through so much. i had just lost both of my parents. i felt like nothing else bad can possibly happen to me. i'm on a course that life's going to be great from here on out. i think the message is simple here. drinking and driving , most people don't have an intent to hurt somebody. but it happens. it can happen to anybody. for me, look at the decisions that i made that night. they were so poor. my judgment was poor. it was 26 minutes from the time i met them through the party to the accident.

>> you went to court and a lot of people expected this excuse, that excuse. you stood up in court and you said, "i am guilty." i think that probably started a transformation in your own life.

>> absolutely. i think that was the first time i became a man when i accepted responsibility. i fwru up learning from a father who said, when you make a mistake or a bad decision, man up and take responsibility. the minute that i decided to do that, most people speculated that i wouldle fight it. the minute i decided to plead guilty is the minute everything changed in my life as a man.

>> you talk now about your time in prison. it was not easy. it was a number of different facilities over 20 months. i think you say the 77 days you spent in l.a. county waiting to be processed for the hardest. give me a sense behind the wall .

>> behind the wall at l.a. county jail and if you speak to someone who's done time, the fact you make it out of there alive is a miracle.

>> why?

>> first off it's like a bomb went off inside. it's your worst nightmare. your hard-core gang members are there. you know, the guards are pretty hard there as well.

>> you witnessed violence?

>> i probably saw 300 fights. i had a bunkie who was killed. i saw people stabbed. i don't know if they made it or not.

>> as a high profile inmate at that facility and others, why do you think you were never harmed? why didn't somebody say, i'm going to get the actor kid over there?

>> they might have. i believe i had a guardian angel watching over me. i don't know why nothing happened to me. i would be sitting in the yard and someone next to me would literally just get clocked. i was never touched. it's by the grace of god i'm sitting here with you today.

>> i know you pray for the family of the victim, the 17-year-old, every night. the reality is he's not coming back. you are going to live with this forever.

>> forever, right.

>> you're a convicted felon.

>> right.

>> how do you deal with that?

>> you don't deal with it. i mean, it's always going to be there. it's something i think about almost every hour. you know, i try to go on with my life by teaching other people and helping other people, reaching out and letting people know, hey, this can happen. i don't want it to happen to you.

>> you have been given a second chance. you are acting again here on nbc. what does that mean in terms of your road to getting back to some sense of normalcy?

>> it's a miracle. just going through eight prisons, i never thought i would make it out to see another set. so i'm fortunate enough to get a second chance when a young man doesn't have one. i'm going to make the most of it. i'm blessed to be on set and be working again.

>> lane, it's nice of you