During a rehearsal on “American Idol” earlier today, stage manager Debbie Williams was badly injured when the staircase that host Ryan Seacrest walks down retracted too soon. According to reports, Williams attempted to hold on to the rails while following Seacrest but missed and fell. She suffered what is reported to be a “nasty gash” [...]

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 Update: 6/18/09 Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Richard McTear Jr., the man who is accused of throwing his ex-girlfriend’s baby out of a car on a Florida highway, killing the infant. McTear  has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges. Assistant State Attorney Jalal Harb told a court hearing Wednesday that [...]

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AP CLEVELAND – Five years ago, a shotgun blast left a ghastly hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months ago, she received a new face from a dead woman. Connie Culp stepped forward Tuesday to show off the results of the nation’s first face transplant, and her new look was a [...]

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FROM BBC NEWS Marilyn French, author of The Women’s Room and regarded as one of the great feminist writers, has died of heart failure aged 79 in New York. The native New Yorker died on Saturday in a Manhattan hospital, said Carol Jenkins, a friend and president of the city’s Women’s Media Center. Her 1977 [...]

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Actor Dom DeLuise, who was known as the funny man in “Blazing Saddles” and “The Cannonball Run” has passed away at the age of 75 at a Santa Monica hospital surrounded by his family, his son’s publicist Jay Schwartz said. DeLuise, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 1, 1933, had been battling [...]

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