Jake Glaserremembers coming home on Dec. 3, 1994 and finding his father,Starsky and Hutchactor Paul Michael Glaser, sitting alone. He immediately knew that his mother, HIV/AIDS activistElizabeth Glaser, had died. “I sat down next to him, and we both cried,” Jake, now 37, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. The Glasers' battle withHIV/AIDSbegan when Elizabeth hemorrhaged while giving birth to daughter Ariel in August 1981, two months after the first cases of AIDS were reported in the U....

Mark Mangaccat (left) and Thandar Seinn. A former airport worker in California was convicted this week ofmurdering his co-worker’s boyfriendafter the woman rejected his advances to start a relationship, authorities said. On Friday, a jury found Kevin Prasad, 37, guilty on all counts, including first-degree murder, lying in wait and firing into an occupied vehicle in the 2018 killing of 31-year-old Mark Mangaccat, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office announced in apost on X(formerly known as Twitter....

An actor, artist and global restaurateur is giving fans a closer look into his life. In the trailer ofaka MR. CHOW,which PEOPLE can exclusively premiere, restaurateur and actor Michael Chow invites viewers into his life to learn more about his struggles as an immigrant and business owner. The documentary, debuting Sunday, Oct. 22 on HBO and streaming onMax, pulls back the layers on a “man who doesn’t want people to know who he really is....

Al Rokerhas nothing but pride, love, and admiration for his son. TheTodayanchorman, who shares 16-year-old sonNicholaswith wife and ABC News senior correspondentDeborah Roberts, recently opened up toGuidepostsmagazine for their May cover story about raising a child with special needs. Inthe article, which was published on Thursday, Roker, 64, explained that Nick is “somewhere on the spectrum and maybe obsessive-compulsive” — a condition that has brought a number of challenges for both Nick and his parents....

Leslie Gillespie.Photo: R. A. Hubbard SchoolA 44-year-old teacher committed suicide days after authorities in Alabama accused her of sexually abusing two of her students.Leslie Buttram Gillespie was arrested on Thursday, PEOPLE confirms.Gillespie was charged with individual counts of second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy along with two counts for being a school employee engaging in a sex act with a student under the age of 19.Gillespie was working at R.A. Hubbard High School in North Courtland at the time of her arrest....

Photo: Kevin C. Cox/GettyAfter securing the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday night, University of Alabama quarterback Mac Jones reflected on one of the most turbulent college football seasons in recent memory.Jones, 22, helped to lead Alabama to earn its 18th national title with a 52-24 win over the Ohio State Buckeyes.Of course, the game concludes a college football season that was in doubt last year because of the coronavirus pandemic....

A former Alabama teacher convicted of sex crimes against three students who’d once taken classes with her reported to jail on Monday to begin serving her sentence, PEOPLE confirms. Ashley Parkins Pruitt, a teacher and coach at Locust Fork High School and then at Appalachian High School, pleaded guilty in 2017 to two counts of performing a sex act with a student or deviant sexual intercourse with a student and two counts of distribution of pornography to a minor, according to a release from Pamela L....

Speaking to NBC affiliate KTUU of Anchorage about the alarming attack, which was captured on video, Hansen recalled the terrifying moment when she was knocked to the ground. “I thought someone had not been paying attention and hit me with a bike or something,” Hansen told the outlet. “I had put my hands up to my head, and I’m like, ‘I’m bleeding.'” Luckily Hansen regained her composure quickly after the kick....

Anesha “Duffy” Murnane.Photo: Homer Police Department Calderwood was charged with kidnapping, tampering with evidence and first- and second-degree murder, all in connection with the Oct. 17, 2019, disappearance of Anesha “Duffy” Murnane. Police say Murnane, a resident of Homer, vanished while walking to a doctor’s appointment. Calderwood has yet to appear in an Alaska court, and has not entered pleas to the charges against him. Lawyer information was not immediately available for him....

Alec Baldwinis reeling from his “devastating” on-set accident Thursday, in which he accidentallyshot and killed a crewmember and left another injuredwhile working on his new Western movie,Rust. “Alec is still trying to get his head around everything that happened,” a source tells PEOPLE. “This has been devastating. It’s been incredibly difficult.” For more on the shooting on theRustset, listen below toour daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day. Hutchins, 42, was airlifted to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where she died from her injuries, according to the sheriff’s department....

Alec Baldwin; Halyna Hutchins.Photo: Rachel Luna/WireImage; Mat Hayward/Getty/AMC Networks The parents and sister of Hutchins — acinematographer who was killedon the set of Baldwin’s western filmRustin October 2021 when a prop gun he was holding that contained live rounds discharged — have filed the suit, which Baldwin, 65, is requesting a judge dismiss with prejudice. “It is abundantly clear under New Mexico law, which will be applied in the California court, that he is responsible for all of the harm he did to the entirety of Halyna Hutchins' family,” Allred added....

Alec Baldwin at the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala.Photo: Monica Schipper/Getty Alec Baldwinserved as master of ceremonies at a human rights event in New York City Thursday night, marking his first public appearance since the Oct. 21 fatal shooting on the film set ofRust. For more on Alec Baldwin and other top stories, listen below toour daily podcast on PEOPLE Every Day. “Celebrate the extraordinary honorees, and we commit ourselves to… to peace, justice and compassion for those who suffer....

Photo: John Lamparski/Getty Alec Baldwinhas lined up his next project. The actor, 65, will star inKent State, a film about the May 4, 1970, tragedy when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on the Kent State University campus during protests of the Vietnam War, killing four unarmed students and injuring nine others. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, Baldwin will play then-president of the university Robert White. The project will be the feature directorial debut of Karen Slade....