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Friday, 13 January 2012 |
Former "Melrose Place" star Heather Locklear was transported by ambulance to a Los Angeles hospital Thursday afternoon after her sister called 911, TMZ reported.
The call, at 2:05pm local time, was
classified as a "medical emergency," with the city's fire department and
the Ventura County Sheriff's Department responding.
"The person who made the call was worried
about Heather's state of mind and they were afraid she was going to harm
herself," a source told Radar Online.
Locklear, 50, recently called off her engagement to former "Melrose Place" co-star Jack Wagner.
On Nov. 15, a rep for Locklear revealed the
actress had ended the engagement after three months because the pair
needed to devote more time to their families. The couple announced they
were engaged in August, after four years of on-again off-again dating.
"She is distraught over her relationship
with Jack, it is on and off and it has upset her lately," the source
told Radar Online. "The person called 911 because they were worried
about Heather."
Locklear was previously married to Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee. She and Sambora have a 13-year-old daughter, Ava Elizabeth.
Authorities were called to Locklear's home
in 2008 following a 911 call made by her doctor, who feared she may have
overdosed on prescription medication -- however, it turned out to be a
false alarm, TMZ reported. Source: newscore.com
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Friday, 13 January 2012 |
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Woman Vanished On Graduation Trip To Aruba...An Alabama judge Thursday signed an order declaring Natalee Holloway -- the teenage girl who disappeared on a trip to Aruba in 2005 -- officially dead.
Holloway's body has not been found and no one has been charged in the case.
Holloway was 18 when she was last seen in the early hours of May 30, 2005, leaving an Oranjestad nightclub with Joran van der Sloot and two other men.
She was visiting the island with about 100 classmates to celebrate their graduation from Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham.
Van der Sloot was detained twice in connection with Holloway's disappearance but never charged.
Holloway's father, Dave Holloway, filed the petition to declare her dead in June.
Beth Holloway, his ex-wife and the teen's mother, has said she opposes the move, saying in a September statement she "will always hope and pray for Natalee's safe return."
Her attorney, John Kelly, said Thursday there is no evidence showing the teen is deceased. Beth Holloway, who now works with groups and families of missing children, feels she is letting them down by agreeing to have her daughter declared dead, Kelly said.
Source: kcra.com
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Thursday, 12 January 2012 |
Kris Jenner this morning dismissed a tabloid story that says daughter Khloe Kardashian isn't a Kardashian."I've never heard such crap in my life," said Kris on Good Morning America. "I gave birth. I know who the dad was." The celeb world buzzed Wednesday about a Radar Online report in which Robert Kardashian's second ex-wife, Jan Ashley, tells Star magazine that "Khloe is not his kid -- he told me that after we got married." Ashley, 63, was Robert's second wife. They wed after his marriage to Kris Jenner ended. In
addition, Ellen Kardashian, 63, Robert's third wife (he married her in
2003 after he and Jan Ashley divorced), has also come forward. "Khloe
brought it up all the time," Ellen tells Star. "She looked
nothing like the rest. She was tall, had a different shape, light hair,
curly hair. Didn't look anything like the other three children." By Kevin Winter, Getty Images Kris Jenner, Khloe's mom, recently admitted in her new book that she cheated on Robert during their marriage."Robert
did question the fact that Khloe was his," Ellen said. "Any normal man
would if they knew their wife had cheated on him. But he never would
have considered a DNA test. He loved her very much." Khloe also took to Twitter to respond:
"The audacity you have to mention my father's name like this! Should be
ashamed of urself! I let a lot of things slide but this one is really
low… YOU ARE DISGUSTING! (yes you know who YOU are)" Laughing it off today, Kris Jenner added, "It's all good. It's the family joke. People, get a life."
See photos of: Khloe Kardashian, Kris Jenner Source: usatoday.com
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Thursday, 12 January 2012 |
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Joran van der Sloot
pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a Peruvian woman he
met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day after the
unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect.
"Yes,
I want to plead guilty. I wanted from the first moment to confess
sincerely," he told the panel of three judges that will decide his fate.
"I truly am sorry for this act. I feel very bad." Prosecutors are asking for a 30-year prison sentence. The
24-year-old Dutch citizen did not show emotion during his brief
confession in fractured Spanish and did not call on the services of a
Dutch translator provided for the proceeding. He bowed his head later when his lawyer argued that he killed Stephany Flores,
21, as a result of "extreme psychological trauma" he suffered from the
fallout of the 2005 disappearance on the Caribbean island of Aruba of Natalee Holloway. Conferring privately with defense attorney Jose Jimenez before leaving the courtroom, Van der Sloot briefly smiled. The
judges have 48 hours to render a sentence and the presiding magistrate,
Victoria Montoya, said it would reconvene Friday to do so. Van
der Sloot's trial opened last week but was adjourned to Wednesday after
he asked for more time to decide how to plead. He said then that he was
inclined to confess but did not accept the aggravated murder charges the
prosecution sought. Van der Sloot, who wore faded jeans and an
untucked light-blue button-down shirt, entered the plea in hopes of a
reduced sentence. He had confessed to the May 30, 2010, killing long ago. Shortly
afterward, he told police he killed Flores in a fit of rage after she
discovered on his laptop his connection to the disappearance of
Holloway. His lawyer claims the killing was manslaughter, for which the
minimum sentence is 5 years. Police forensic experts disputed that
claim and the attorney for the victim's family contends Van der Sloot
killed Flores, a business student from a prominent family, in order to
rob her. Prosecutors are seeking a 30-year prison sentence on
first-degree murder and theft charges. The prosecution van der Sloot
killed Flores with "ferocity" and "cruelty," beating and then
strangling her in his Lima hotel room, concealing the crime and fleeing
to Chile, where he was caught several days later after Flores' rotting
body was found in his hotel room. Prosecutors say he took more
than $200 in cash plus credit cards from the victim and made his initial
getaway by driving her car to a different part of Lima. The
length of the sentence is completely at the judges' discretion, said
court officials and a leading Peruvian criminal attorney, Luis Lamas.
The attorney for the family of the victim, Edwar Alvarez, has argued for
life in prison for Van der Sloot. "In the court record, this man
has submitted to psychological examinations and they have concluded that
he is a psychopathic person," he told reporters. "What judge would give
a psychopath a penal benefit?" The victim's father, circus impresario and former race car driver Ricardo Flores, attended the opening of the trial but not Wednesday's hearing. Reached by phone before Van der Sloot's plea, he said he wasn't watching the trial on TV but would await word from his lawyer. "This matter hurts us," he told The Associated Press. Video
taken at the Atlantic City Casino where the victim met Van der Sloot
shows the two leaving together, and closed-circuit images from the
downmarket TAC hotel shows the pair entering together and Van der Sloot
leaving alone hours later, bags packed. After
strangling Flores, Van der Sloot left the hotel room and, to hide the
crime, bought two cups of coffee across the street, asking a hotel
employee to open his room when he returned, Prosecutor Jose Santiesteban
said in the trial's opening argument Friday. Van
der Sloot continues to be dogged by the case of Holloway, a Mountain
Brook, Alabama, 19-year-old who disappeared during a high school
graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba where Van der
Sloot grew up. She was last seen leaving a nightclub with him. Her body has never been found. The
case received a storm of media attention and the tall, garrulous
Dutchman became a staple of true-crime TV shows, in several interviews
describing himself as a pathological liar. In a clandestinely taped
conversation, he was shown telling a Dutch TV reporter he was involved
in Holloway's disappearance. Van der Sloot's trip to Lima may have been funded by continued fallout from that case. U.S.
officials, who indicted him on extortion and fraud charges just days
after the Flores killing, say Van der Sloot had just extorted $25,000
from Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, by offering to lead her attorney to Holloway's body in Aruba. They
say that after meeting with the attorney there, without delivering on
his offer, he flew to Lima on May 14, 2010, two weeks before Flores'
death. Ricardo Flores said he doesn't think Van der Sloot is at
all contrite over his daughter's death and wants to see the defendant
placed in conditions of greater deprivation. That could include being extradited to the United States to stand trial there once he's been sentenced in Peru. Peru's Foreign Ministry says it has no U.S. extradition request for Van der Sloot. U.S.
authorities have requested his arrest through Interpol "should he be
released on the charges there" so he could be brought to Birmingham,
Alabama, for trial, said Peggy Sanford, a spokeswoman the U.S.
Attorney's office there. No members of Van der Sloot's family have attended the trial. His
lawyer said his client's mother, Anita, did not want the media
attention. The defendant's father, a prominent lawyer, died of a heart
attack at age 57 in February 2010. Source:yahoo.com/ap
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 |
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Some recent Russian satellite failures may
have been the result of sabotage by foreign forces, Russia's space chief
said Tuesday, in comments apparently aimed at the United States.
Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin stopped
short of accusing any specific country of disabling Russian satellites,
but in an interview in the daily Izvestia he said some Russian craft had
suffered "unexplained" malfunctions while flying over another side of
the globe beyond the reach of his nation's tracking facilities.
Popovkin spoke when asked about the failure
of the $170-million unmanned Phobos-Ground probe, which was to explore
one of Mars' two moons, Phobos, but became stranded while orbiting Earth
after its Nov. 9 launch. Engineers in Russia and the European Space Agency have failed to propel the spacecraft toward Mars, and it is expected to fall back to Earth around Jan. 15.
Roscosmos spokesman Alexei Kuznetsov refused
to elaborate on Popovkin's comments, which marked the first time a
senior Russian government official has claimed that foreign sabotage has
been used to disable one of the country's satellites.
Popovkin said modern technology makes spacecraft vulnerable to foreign influences.
"I wouldn't like to accuse anyone, but today
there exists powerful means to influence spacecraft, and their use
can't be excluded," he said.
James Oberg, a NASA veteran who has written
books on the Russian space program and now works as a space consultant,
said Popovkin's comments were a sad example of the Russian cultural
instinct to 'blame foreigners.'
"It's a feature of space launch trajectories
that orbital adjustments must be made halfway around the first orbit to
circularize and stabilize subsequent orbits," Oberg said in e-mailed
comments.
"The Russians must know that simple
geography -- not evildoers lurking in shadows -- dictate where their
communications 'blind spots' are. But the urge to shift blame seems
strong," he said.
The failed Phobos mission was the latest in a
series of recent Russian launch failures that have raised concerns
about the condition of the country's space industries and raised
pressure on Popovkin. Space officials have blamed the failures on obsolete equipment and an aging work force.
Popovkin also said in 2013, Russia will
launch three new communications satellites that will be able to
retransmit signals from other Russian spacecraft as they fly over
another hemisphere.
A retired Russian general alleged last
November that the Phobos-Ground satellite might have been incapacitated
by a powerful U.S. radar. Nikolai Rodionov, who previously was in charge
of Russia's early warning system, was quoted as saying that a powerful
electromagnetic impulse generated by U.S. radar in Alaska might have
affected the probe's control system.
Popovkin said experts have so far failed to
determine why the Phobos-Ground probe's engines failed to fire, but
admitted the program had suffered from funding shortages that led to
some "risky technological solutions."
The spacecraft was supposed to collect soil
samples on Phobos and fly them back to Earth in one of the most
challenging unmanned interplanetary missions ever. It was Russia's first
foray beyond the Earth orbit
since a botched 1996 robotic mission to Mars, which failed when the
probe crashed shortly after the launch due to an engine failure.
Scientists had hoped that studies of Phobos'
surface could help solve the mystery of its origin and shed more light
on the genesis of the solar system. Some believe the crater-dented moon
is an asteroid captured by Mars' gravity, while others think it's a
piece of debris from when Mars collided with another celestial object. Source: ap
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 |
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Rape crisis groups are angry over actress Kim Novak’s
assertion that she has been "raped" by the makers of the Oscar
contender “The Artist” because the film used a score from one of her old
movies. But Novak’s camp isn’t offering up any apologies.
Novak’s long time manager Sue Cameron told
Fox411: “There are all kinds of rape including the rape of one’s soul.
All rapes are violent acts and all victims should be supported.”
Lynn Blanco, the CEO of the Rape Crisis Center in San Antonio, Texas, and herself a victim of rape, disagrees.
“When rape is used in a way that
overdramatizes a situation that did not include an actual rape it
diminishes the suffering of the thousands of men, women and children who
have suffered from the crime,” she told Fox411.com.
In a full page ad taken out in the trade
magazine Variety, Novak, 78, uses the word "rape" to describe how she
felt when “The Artist” used parts of Bernard Herrmann’s love theme from
the movie “Vertigo,” which Novak starred in with James Stewart, to score their movie.
“I want to report a rape,” the ad begins. “I
feel as if my body – or, at least my body of work – has been violated
by the movie, ‘The Artist.’”
Novak concluded her ad by saying: “It is
morally wrong for the artistry of our industry to use and abuse famous
pieces of work to gain attention and applause for other than what they
were intended.'"
Having an idea stolen is not the same as
having your body violated, Blanco said. “We are talking about a horrible
and despicable crime,” she explained.
“Does a body of work really equate with a
human body and soul brutalized and sexually violated? Ms. Novak would no
doubt argue that it does. Some victims (and others) would agree. But
others may not,” Karla Miller, the Executive Director of the Rape Victim
Advocacy Program in Iowa City, Iowa told Fox411.
Novak isn’t the first celebrity to be criticized over the use of the term "rape." In the November issue of Vanity Fair, Johnny Depp used the word to describe how much he hated having his picture taken in photo shoots.
"Well, you just feel like you’re being raped
somehow. Raped ... It feels like a kind of weird -- just weird, man,"
Depp said. "Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s
like -- you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid,” Depp said.
The actor later sent a sincere letter of
apology to RAINN, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network saying he
was “truly sorry for offending anyone in any way” and that it “was a
poor choice of words on my part in an effort to explain a feeling. I
understand there is no comparison and I am very regretful.”
Twilight actress Kristen Stewart similarly apologized after she told British Elle magazine that she felt like she was being raped when paparazzi shots were taken of her.
“I really made an enormous mistake – clearly and obviously," Stewart said.
The misuse of the word rape can actually
harm victims of the actual crime, Blanco added. “Using the word in this
way can actually silence victims from telling their stories," she said.
"It reinforces the idea that rape is not serious or important enough to
report.” Source: foxnews.com
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012 |
An Australian
tourist bungee jumping in Africa plunged 365 feet into a river when her
cord snapped, but she managed to swim to safety with a broken collarbone
and her legs tied together.
Erin Langworthy told Nine Network television
news Sunday that she blacked out briefly when she hit the Zambesi River
on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe on Dec. 31. (Watch Now) "I felt like I'd been slapped all over," the 22-year-old from Perth said.
Video taken of the jump shows the cord
snapping and Langworthy smacking into the river before the current
pulled her into rapids.
"You get sucked under and then you pop up so it's very disorienting -- I didn't know which was up or down," she said.
She said the trailing cord repeatedly
snagged, so she "had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of
whatever it was caught on to make it to the surface."
Langworthy swam through the rapids to reach the Zimbabwe bank.
Southern Province Police Commissioner Brenda
Muntemba told the Post Zambia newspaper that Langworthy was treated at a
clinic in Zimbabwe before being evacuated to South Africa.
The jump from the Victoria Falls Bridge is
operated by Safari Par Excellence, whose website describes the bungee
experience as "111 meters (365 feet) of pure Adrenalin!" Source: ap/foxnews.com
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Sunday, 08 January 2012 |
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2012 is off to a wonderful start for Beyonce and Jay-Z!
The singer, 30, gave birth to a baby girl in New York on Saturday, according to various outlets, including Good Morning America and her hometown paper, the Houston Chronicle, which reported that "baby and mom are doing just fine." GMA reports the superstar gave birth via C-section. "Welcome to the world, Blue," Beyonce and Jay-Z's close friend Gwyneth Paltrow tweeted Sunday. "We love you already." The actress also answered a "confused" fan who asked if the infant's name is "Ivy Blue or Blue Ivy," saying, "It's Blue Ivy!' PHOTOS: Beyonce's baby bump style According to GMA, the couple chose "Ivy" because of the significance of the number "4" or "IV," -- Beyonce and Jay-Z were born on Sept. 4 and Dec. 4, respectively, were married on April 4, 2008, and Beyonce's latest album is entitled 4.) It's the first child for the "Love on Top" singer and hip-hop mogul Jay-Z (real name: Shawn Carter), 42. PHOTOS: Bey and Jay's romance An observer at NYC's Lenox Hill Hospital told Us Weekly that Jay-Z was spotted walking the hospital halls Saturday morning looking "happy." Beyonce's family members -- sister Solange, parents Tina and Mathew Knowles -- were also spotted at the facility with "flowers with pink balloons and silver and black ribbons," the witness added. PHOTOS: Beyonce's bikini body evolution Confirming the big news? None other than superstar pal Rihanna, who tweeted Saturday, "Welcome to the world princess Carter! Love Aunty Rih."Fellow hip hop icon Russell Simmons also wrote: "Congrats to my good friends Beyonce and Jay-Z." The 30-year-old singer first announced she and her hubby, 42, were expecting at MTV's Video Music Awards in August. During her incredible "Love on Top" performance, she exclaimed, "Feel the love that's growing inside of me," before ripping open her purple sequined blazer to reveal her baby bump. Keep clicking to see more pics of Beyonce during her pregnancy!
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Saturday, 07 January 2012 |
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Justin Bieber has made a lifelong commitment to Jesus Christ – with a tattoo.
The 17-year-old “Baby” singer was spied on a
Los Angeles beach on Jan. 5 sporting a large portrait of the Son of God
on his left calf.
The black ink portrait, which is
approximately about 5” tall, appears to be inspired by an illustration
for “The Mysteries of the Crown of Thorns,” written by a Passionist
Father in 1879. Click here for more Justin Bieber photos from X17 Online.
While not quite of legal age (California law
states that tattooing of minors is prohibited ), this isn’t Bieber’s
first tattoo. He now has three tats in his growing collection, including
“Jesus” written in Hebrew on his rib cage and a tiny bird on his left
hip.
“I'm a Christian, I believe in God, I
believe that Jesus died on a cross for my sins," Biber told the
Associated Press in 2010. "I believe that I have a relationship and I'm
able to talk to him and really, he's the reason I'm here, so I
definitely have to remember that. As soon as I start forgetting, I've
got to click back and be like, you know, this is why I'm here." Source: foxnews.com
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