Norman Thaddeus Vane, a writer-director behind such films as the 1983 cult horror film Frightmare and Club Life, a 1986 drama starring Tony Curtis, has died. He was 86.

A Marine Corps veteran who tried to fake his own death after a falling out with a Virginia-based militia group Virginia Kekoas has pleaded guilty to illegal possession of ricin, a biological toxin ...

Vane also was given four months of home confinement, and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and sell or dispose of nearly a dozen guns in his home. Vane apologized before he was sentenced.