Category Archives: Accident

Schwarzenegger son hurt in Malibu surf mishap

By doris | Published: July 22, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com LOS ANGELES (AP) — The youngest son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver is recovering in a hospital after a body-boarding accident at a Malibu beach. A family statement issued Friday says Christopher Schwarzenegger “is a brave boy and is expected to make a full recovery.” The statement called it “a [...]

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Whoops! Kirstie Alley takes a tumble on ‘Dancing’

By doris | Published: April 5, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com Monday night was “story night” on “Dancing With the Stars,” and the overall tale seemed to be expect the unexpected. Some good dancers weren’t so good, some bad dancers weren’t so bad and one usually upright dancer found herself flat on the floor. The story Kirstie Alley intended to tell with [...]

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Giant hay bale crushes ex-ELO star to death

By doris | Published: September 7, 2010

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com LONDON — A giant bale of hay has killed a founding member of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) after it tumbled down a hill and crashed into his van. Cellist Mike Edwards, 62, died after the 1,323 lb bale rolled down a steep field in Devon, southern England, smashed through a hedge [...]

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Comedian Robert Schimmel dies after car accident

By doris | Published: September 5, 2010

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com PHOENIX — Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a frequent guest on Howard Stern’s radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. He was 60. Schimmel’s spokesman, Howard Bragman, said Schimmel died Friday evening in a Phoenix hospital. Schimmel was a passenger Aug. 26 in a car driven by [...]

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Zsa Zsa Gabor hospitalized with broken bones

By doris | Published: July 18, 2010

Full Story at TODAYmsnbc.msn.com LOS ANGELES — Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was hospitalized Saturday night in Los Angeles after falling out of bed and breaking several bones, NBC News has confirmed. Publicist John Blanchette told NBC that Gabor, 93, was watching her favorite show, “Jeopardy,” on television in her Bel Air home when she reached [...]

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Noted indie drummer dies in fall down elevator shaft

By doris | Published: November 10, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (Entertainment Weekly) — Thirty-four-year-old Gerhardt “Jerry” Fuchs, a beloved fixture of both the New York and Athens, Georgia, rock scenes who played with LCD Soundsystem, !!! (pronounced Chk Chk Chk), Turing Machine, MSTRKRFT, and The Juan MacLean, died Saturday night in a fall after attempting to crawl out of a broken [...]

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Boyle’s wardrobe malfunction is no dream

By doris | Published: October 26, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com This isn’t a dream for Susan Boyle — she really did have a wardrobe malfunction at an Oct. 22 soccer match. It was nothing on the level of Janet Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl malfunction, however. The Scottish singer’s pants appeared slightly undone as she waved a scarf over her head in [...]

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Madonna ‘devastated’ by stage construction death

By doris | Published: July 17, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com A 53-year-old French man was killed when a stage being built for the concert collapsed, a fire department spokesman in the southern French city said. Another two people, one British and one American, are severely injured, and four are lightly injured, officer David Goddin told CNN. “At this point we don’t [...]

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Carradine family requests help from FBI

By doris | Published: June 7, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com LOS ANGELES – The family of David Carradine is asking a private forensics expert and the FBI to help investigate the “Kung Fu” actor’s death, attorney Mark Geragos said Saturday, the same day Thai police said surveillance footage indicated no one had entered his hotel room before he died. Carradine’s brother [...]

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Natasha Richardson dies after ski fall

By doris | Published: March 19, 2009

Full Story  CNN.com NEW YORK (CNN) — Natasha Richardson, a film star, Tony-winning stage actress and member of the famed Redgrave acting family, died Wednesday after suffering injuries in a ski accident, according to a family statement. She was 45.

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