Police arraigned in Parker-Broderick case

St. Clairsville, Ohio — Two Ohio police chiefs accused of snooping on the surrogate mother for actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have been charged with several felonies.

Special prosecutor T. Shawn Hervey says the men conspired to take and sell items from the woman’s home to sell to celebrity photographers.

At an arraignment Friday, Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter was charged with two counts of burglary, one count of receiving stolen property, one count of theft in office, one count of unauthorized use of property or services and one count of tampering with evidence.

Bridgeport Police Chief Chad Dojack was charged with two counts of complicity to commit burglary and one count of complicity to receive stolen property.

Both men pleaded not guilty and are free on their own recognizance.

Academy’s ‘Keeper of the Oscars’ dead at 47

Los Angeles — Steven Miessner, the motion picture academy’s devoted “Keeper of the Oscars” who each year donned his signature white gloves to get the golden statuettes ready for their closeup before a worldwide audience, is dead at age 47.

Miessner died at his home on Wednesday of a heart attack.

Leading up to the Academy Award ceremony, Miessner would take loving custody of the Oscars as they arrived from the R. S. Owens foundry in Chicago, logging them into a computer file, keeping them safe and secure, and then on the big night, giving the coveted statuettes one last rubdown backstage before handing them to the show’s trophy presenters.

He would then record which individually numbered Oscar was presented to whom and later, arrange with the winners to get their statuettes properly engraved.

In addition to his Oscar duties, Miessner was an executive assistant to academy executive director Bruce Davis and president Sid Ganis.