Roy Crawford

I'm Roy M. Crawford, a Washington-based journalist with more than five years of experience across local news publishing, covering national and political affairs, sports journalism, entertainment reporting, celebrity news and profiles, technology, international affairs, automotive, gaming, and trending cultural stories. Working inside local newsrooms teaches you to cover what the day puts in front of you, and that background is what shaped the editorial range Up Front Journal operates across. I founded this publication in May 2026 with a team of editors and researchers behind me, built around one standard: every story published here, whether it runs in sports, celebrity coverage, world news, entertainment, or breaking national reporting, goes through the same editorial process. This is my publication, and the reporting standards on this site are the ones I built my career on.

Natasha Rubin is the Russian pianist who married Cheech Marin

She trained in St. Petersburg, married Cheech Marin in 2009, and books classical music into private front rooms in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree. On the last Sunday in November, in a Brentwood...

Ben Indra Has Not Acted in 21 Years. Anna Faris Is Back.

The last time Anna Faris played Cindy Campbell, her husband was Ben Indra. Scary Movie 4 opened in April 2006, and photographers shot the two of them together at the New York...

Paul Edward Hospenthal Has Never Answered Danica Patrick

Paul Edward Hospenthal has been described publicly twice, both times by the woman he was married to, and the two accounts do not sit together. The first came in November 2012, on Facebook....

Rebecca Liddicoat Spent Two Years Fighting RG3 in Court

A Texas judge signed off on the divorce between Rebecca Liddicoat and Robert Griffin III in late May 2017. Weeks later she filed to have the settlement thrown out. Her argument was that...

Candi Gauff Was an Elite Athlete Before She Raised Coco Gauff

On June 29, 2026, Candi Gauff put up a photograph of her middle child in a cap and gown and wrote several hundred words underneath it. Codey Gauff had finished high school...

John Legend and Hillary Clinton Spent 2008 on Opposite Sides

The singer put more road time into her 2016 run than almost anyone in music. He also spent the 2008 primary helping the man who beat her. On October 9, 2016, Hillary Clinton...

Gilligan Stillwater Is Billy Gibbons’ Wife and Business Manager

She married the ZZ Top guitarist in 2005 and wrote the opening track on his second solo album. Nearly everything on file about her comes from a Texas marriage record or from...

Troy Dendekker Married Bradley Nowell Seven Days Before He Died

Troy Dendekker was married to Bradley Nowell for seven days. The Sublime singer died of a heroin overdose on May 25, 1996, in a San Francisco motel room, where drummer Bud Gaugh...

Roy Crawford

I'm Roy M. Crawford, a Washington-based journalist with more than five years of experience across local news publishing, covering national and political affairs, sports journalism, entertainment reporting, celebrity news and profiles, technology, international affairs, automotive, gaming, and trending cultural stories. Working inside local newsrooms teaches you to cover what the day puts in front of you, and that background is what shaped the editorial range Up Front Journal operates across. I founded this publication in May 2026 with a team of editors and researchers behind me, built around one standard: every story published here, whether it runs in sports, celebrity coverage, world news, entertainment, or breaking national reporting, goes through the same editorial process. This is my publication, and the reporting standards on this site are the ones I built my career on.