The re-trial of a man accused in the 2012 kidnapping and killing of 6-year-old Isabel Celis began Wednesday morning with the prosecutor telling jurors that the defendant had written the girl’s ...

In the early 2000s, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean introduced moviegoers to one of the decade’s most iconic film characters: Johhny Depp’s quick-witted pirate lord, Captain Jack Sparrow.

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