19 Year Sentenced To 40 Years For Murder Of Openly Gay DC Principal Brian Betts, Dallas Couple Who Legally Married Via Skype Files Discrimination Complaint Against Dallas Morning News For Not Publishing Wedding Announcement, Has Glee Become Gloomy, Taylor Lautner TSA Clearance, Paul Wesley Elling Opening Night

19 year old Alante Saunders was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years in prison for his primary part in the shooting murder of Brian Betts, principal of Shaw Middle School, the Washington Post reports. Saunders pleaded guilty to a felony murder charge in early November. Four individuals were charged, and earlier Tuesday one of those, 19 year old Sharif Lancaster, pleaded guilty to charges of robbery and use of handgun during a crime. He faces 35 years in prison. Plea deals were negotiated for both Saunders and Lancaster. Police and prosecutors said that on the evening of April 14th, Saunders called a gay sex chat line with the intention of planning a robbery, using a phone that belonged to Lancaster’s girlfriend at the time. Saunders exchanged several messages with Betts, pretending to set up a personal meeting, Betts having arranged to leave the door of his house open and to wait along in an upstairs bedroom. Prosecutors say Saunders, Lancaster, and two other defendants – Joel Johnson and Deontra Gray – went to Betts home, Saunders having shot Betts, Saunders says by accident. There was no hate crimes stipulation added, prosecutors arguing all along that robbery was the sole motive.

Mark Reed-Walkup and Dante Walkup, the Dallas, Texas gay couple legally married in Washington, D.C. via Skype in October, have filed a discrimination complaint against the Dallas Morning News, reports the Dallas Voice, the Morning News having refused to publish their same sex wedding announcement. Reed-Walkup says he had tried for several weeks to get the paper to publish their paid announcement in its “Weddings” section, but the newspaper, citing a policy that says same sex wedding announcements can only appear in a separate section called “Commitments,” has rejected the couple’s request. The paper says the policy was created since gay marriage is not legal in Texas. Reed-Walkup said “Our ultimate goal is for the newspaper to realise that this is discrimination and change the policy. They (the city) may agree with the newspaper that because of the ban on same sex marriage in Texas, they have every justification to not publish it in the “Weddings” section. At least we can say that we tried, and take it from there.”

TV Guide suggests that Glee is in danger of becoming the “St. Kurt Show,” saying “This show used to be about an idealistic teacher trying to help a group of misfits find their voice through show choir. Now it’s all about a kid who is bullied at a school where there are a few less-important misfits in a show choir that never seems to rehearse for the upcoming sectional, and an annoying teacher with the worst boundaries on the planet. The glee has given way to gloom and with Kurt running off to Dalton Academy instead of standing up to his tormentor, it seems the only ones displaying any courage are the viewers who keep coming back in the hopes that it will get better.”

A sleepy, yet sexy Taylor Lautner made his way through Los Angeles International Airport early Thursday morning, and, despite the promise, to the disappoint of several, neither a pat down or full body scan.

Paul Wesley seen attending the opening night of Elling, an adaption for the stage of the 2001 infamous Norwegian film.