Television
Resigned: Citing bad publicity from his recent arrest on drug charges, actor Todd Bridges, 27, resigned as head of the Todd Bridges Youth Foundation that he founded two years ago in Compton.
Jan. 4, 1993
California
Actor Todd Bridges, who appeared on the “Diff’rent Strokes” television series, was acquitted Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court of charges of attempted murder and attempted voluntary manslaughter in the shooting of a convicted Texas drug dealer.
Nov. 8, 1989
World & Nation
Todd Bridges, the 35-year-old former star of the TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” helped save a paraplegic woman from drowning Thursday afternoon when her motorized wheelchair accidentally rolled into Lake Balboa, according to the victim and authorities at the Department of Recreation and Parks.
April 14, 2001
Accidents: Todd Bridges of ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ and his brother James pull the wheelchair-bound victim from a lake.
Todd Bridges, the former child actor acquitted in the shooting of an alleged drug dealer, has returned to his craft in a deputy sheriff’s uniform for a part in “The New Lassie.”
Sept. 6, 1990
Entertainment & Arts
The defense in the assault retrial of actor Todd Bridges rested Thursday without Bridges taking the witness stand, even though the actor’s lawyer had told jurors he would testify.
Aug. 17, 1990
Prosecutors declined to press charges against former “Diff’rent Strokes” star Todd Bridges on Tuesday, saying he stabbed a tenant with a kitchen knife in self-defense, authorities said.
March 10, 1993
Actor Todd Bridges pleaded innocent Friday to charges that he tried to kill a narcotics dealer by shooting him eight times in a drug-induced fit of violence in a cocaine rock house.
March 25, 1989
Former “Diff’rent Strokes” star Todd Bridges entered a surprise guilty plea Thursday to narcotics and weapons possession charges.
July 30, 1993
Los Angeles Municipal Judge David Horwitz set bail in the amount of $2 million Thursday for actor Todd Bridges, who is charged with the attempted murder of a man inside a reputed “rock house.”
March 3, 1989