World renowned hair stylist Vidal Sassoon passed away today at his home in California at the age of 84. A spokesman for Sassoon said he died Wednesday morning at his home on Mulholland Drive in Hollywood. The London-born stylist is credited for creating the “bob”, a wash-and-wear haircut that freed women form teasing and hairspray. [...]

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Authorities in New York City said the 11-year-old girl who killed herself earlier this week sent her friends suicidal text messages hours before she hang herself in her Bronx apartment. Wilnery Polanco-Uben was found hanging behind a door inside her Bronx apartment around 7:00 p.m. Monday. Polanco-Uben’s mother and residents from her Croes Avenue apartment [...]

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Most people thought this actor was already dead, but George Lindsey, the actor who played the lovable mechanic Goober Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died. Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville released a statement today saying Lindsey, who was 83, died around 12:05 a.m. Sunday after an extended illness. Lindsey played the beanie-wearing Goober [...]

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A twelve year old Brooklyn, New York, boy playing a game of “chicken” with four other boys crushed to death by a parking lot metal gate. Witnesses said the boys were jumping on the gate as vehicles were going in and out of the lot on Lott Avenue near Watkins Street in Brownsville. They said [...]

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A 23-year-old Brooklyn College student was killed Saturday night in an accident on Ocean Parkway. Witnesses told police that a MBW M6 was traveling at high speed near Avenue X around 11:45 p.m., when the driver lost control of the high-performance car and crashed it into a Ford Windstar minivan driven Jamal Iqual. Iqual, a [...]

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