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NEW YORK—"Fashion Police" host and comedienne Joan Rivers, 81, suffered respiratory and cardiac arrest during a minor throat procedure on August 28. She has been on life support since being rushed to Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital on Thursday. Doctors placed Rivers into a medically induced coma, which she was recently taken out of. Joan’s daughter, Melissa Rivers, 46, flew from Los...

WEST HOLLYWOOD—Founder and CEO of Black Kapital Records and co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records, Marion “Suge” Knight was injured on August 24 during a shooting while attending a party hosted by singer Chris Brown at 1Oak nightclub. Three other victims also sustained injuries at the event.   Chris Brown held the pre-VMA party on Saturday, August 23,...

SAN FRANCISCO—The U. S. Geological Survey deemed Sunday's 6.0 earthquake as the biggest earthquake to hit Napa Valley California since the Loma Prieta quake nearly 25 years ago. According to a USGS press release, the earthquake hit the northern San Francisco Bay area around 3:20 a.m. and “appears to have ruptured on or just west of mapped traces of...

CALIFORNIA—The U. S. Geological Survey deemed Sunday's 6.0 earthquake as the biggest earthquake to hit Napa Valley California since the Loma Prieta quake nearly 25 years ago. According to a USGS press release, the earthquake hit the northern San Francisco Bay area around 3:20 a.m. and “appears to have ruptured on or just west of mapped traces of the West...

BEVERLY HILLS—R&B singer Ray J was arraigned on sexual battery and resisting arrest charges in court on Tuesday, August 19. According to a press release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Ray J whose real name is Willie Ray Norwood, 33, pleaded not guilty from his attorney to four misdemeanor counts of sexual battery, vandalism, battery on a...

HOLLYWOOD—Hollywood is mourning the lost of acting legend Lauren Bacall who passed away at the age of 89. The actress was found dead in her home on Tuesday, August 12, after suffering from a stroke. The Humphrey Bogart Estate confirmed the death with the following statement on their Facebook page, “With deep sorrow for the magnitude of our loss, yet...

TIBURON, CA—Beloved Hollywood actor and comedian, Robin McLaurin Williams, who recently celebrated his 63rd birthday, was pronounced dead in his Northern California home on August 11 at 12: 02 p.m. According to a press release from the Marin County Police Department, police received a call at 11:55 a.m. about an adult male being found unconscious and not breathing. Most were surprised to...

MALIBU—Billy Unger, the star of Disney’ hit TV series “Lab Rats” was arrested for speeding and driving under the influence on June 28 near the Pacific Coast Highway. TMZ reported that the actor, who is under the age of 21, blew .08 which is the legal limit, but because Unger is only 18, the state of California has stricter...

BEVERLY HILLS—Singer Justin Bieber was involved in a car crash in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, June 24. TMZ first reported the story of Bieber being followed by the paparazzi, when the Escalade he was in was struck by a BMW that was exiting a parking structure. TMZ reported that Bieber immediately exited the vehicle and got into another vehicle with...

NEW JERSEY—Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan was critically injured on June 7 after, a multi-vehicle crash caused the limo bus that he was a passenger in to flip over on the New Jersey Turnpike. More than six vehicles were involved in the collision that took place in the wee hours of the morning at around 1 a.m., when the...