Source: New York Daily News Pregnant women who were exposed to high levels of air pollution were twice as likely to have a child with autism as women who lived in low pollution areas, a Harvard University study said on Tuesday. According to researchers, this is the first large national study to examine links between [...]
Source: Chiderah Monde / New York Daily News Singer Ciara was served with legal papers during a performance on Saturday night in Los Angeles. According to TMZ, after canceling a scheduled appearance at gay bar The Hit Factory on Friday night, Ciara, 27, was threatened with a lawsuit. At her next show on Saturday the “Goodies” [...]
Source: Philip Caulfield / New York Daily News The mysterious limo fire that killed a young bride and four friends on a girls’ night out in California last month was caused by a mechanical failure that may have ignited the gas tank, according to a report. The California Highway Patrol and the San Mateo police were [...]
Source: Lachlan Cartwright , Nancy Dillon and Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News The pressure of testifying in the high-stakes legal showdown over Michael Jackson’s death drove Paris Jackson to attempt suicide by slitting her wrist, sources close to the family told the Daily News. The King of Pop’s only daughter is due to take the [...]
Source: New York Daily News Sergio Garcia said Sunday he will meet with Tiger Woods before the June 13 start of the U.S. Open at Merion in Pennsylvania to apologize in person for his offensive comment directed at the 14-time major champion. “I’ve talked with Tiger’s manager and asked him if he wanted us to call Tiger,” said [...]
Source: New York Daily News Will and Jaden Smith have working together down to a science. “You know how Johnny Depp and Tim Burton always do movies together, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio? We’ll have a relationship like that,” Jaden, 14, tells New York magazine in this week’s issue. “It’s kind of like father and [...]
Source: Vera Chinese, Pete Donohue and Corky Siemaszko / New York Daily News A still-stunned friend of D’aja (Asia) Robinson, the sweet 14-year-old Queens girl killed when a bullet pierced the window of a Q6 bus, said she was just “arm-distance away from her” when the gunfire erupted. “My friend Cene had blood all over [...]
Source: Adam Edelman / New York Daily News A second-grader in Colorado has been suspended from his elementary school for “throwing” an imaginary grenade during a harmless make-believe game he was playing called “rescue the world.” The innocent 7-year-old claimed he was, in fact, simply trying to rescue the world, but officials at Mary Blair Elementary [...]
Source: Robert Gearty and Stephen Rex / New York Daily News A key part of the NYPD’s controversial “stop and frisk” tactic has been ruled unconstitutional. Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin ordered police to refrain from making trespass stops outside private residential buildings — even though the landlord has given officers permission to do [...]
Source: Jim Farber / New York Daily News The late Donna Summer finally made it into the hallowed hall – on her sixth try, just half a year after her passing – while Public Enemy found themselves swept in on their very first bid. Also inducted were arch satirist Randy Newman and the pioneering female rock band [...]