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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former “Scandal” actor Columbus Short is avoiding jail time after pleading no contest Thursday to punching a man at a Los Angeles bar last year. Short pleaded no contest to a felony count of assault likely to cause great bodily injury, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Short […]

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Columbus Short posted bail late Wednesday night after bounty hunters tracked him down Tuesday at his own album release party. “He is being released from jail tonight,” the former “Scandal” star’s lawyer Ludlow B. Creary told TheWrap. Creary said his client would no longer have to attend a court hearing scheduled for Thursday morning. Short’s […]

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Columbus Short can’t seem to stay out of the headlines. The former “Scandal” star was pursued and detained by bounty hunters and sheriffs in Los Angeles as the actor was hosting his album release party. According to TMZ, Short was bum-rushed inside of a club at Universal Studios City Walk…just as he was about to […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Columbus Short was ordered to stand trial on a felony battery charge after a witness testified that the former “Scandal” actor delivered a running punch on a man who wasn’t looking his direction. Superior Court Commissioner Mark Zuckman ruled Tuesday that prosecutors had shown enough evidence to support the charge, but […]

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Columbus Short was slapped with a bench warrant on Monday for missing yet another hearing in Los Angeles County Court. The former “Scandal” star reportedly missed a mandatory hearing in his felony battery case related to an alleged bar fight last March, reports the New York Daily News. The Los Angeles County Superior Court judge […]