A bomb blast outside a Starbucks coffee shop rattled the early morning Memorial Day quiet of Manhattan's Upper East Side today, shattering windows and triggering the evacuation of 25 apartments.
The coffee shop was closed when the bomb erupted at 3:25 a.m., and there were no reported injuries.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the first officers on the scene "found windows blown out of the Starbucks and the chair, the seat that is right… Continue
Stars showed up at the opening celebration of the Mardan Palace Hotel in Antalya, Turkey on Saturday - for a price.
Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Mariah Carey, Tom Jones, Seal and others turned out to celebrate the opening of the 560-room five-star resort on the Mediterranean. The NY Post reports that Mariah was paid $1.5 million for her appearance, which included a short performance Saturday night. No word how much the others got… Continue
"Bootylicious" singer Beyonce has some choice words for women who spend hours slaving at the sports club.
"To me, it's sexier when it doesn't look like you go to the gym," she told Britain’s Daily Mail. "If you look like you've been spending a lot of time in the gym, then it just looks like you spend a lot of time in the gym."
Could the singer be referring to Madonna’s over-sculpted and rock-hard limbs? Beyonce continued, "I feel… Continue
The Hollywood star tried to chase down a thug who swiped his BlackBerry at a Seventh Avenue subway station Thursday, sources told The Post. The brazen mugger managed to escape and was at large yesterday.
Now the thief is a lot less than six degrees of separation away from a coveted cache of A-list celebrities and boldface names likely programmed into Bacon's 'Berry.
Toni Braxton -- who canceled her residency at the Flamingo Hotel last year due to her heart condition -- was back in Las Vegas last night, partying at Body English with Nelly, Jermaine Dupri and Tyrese.
SEOUL, South Korea – Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun — whose hard-won reputation as a corruption fighter was tarnished by bribery allegations that drew in his family and closest associates — jumped to his death Saturday while hiking in the mountains behind his rural home. He was 62.
After leaving his family a suicide note, Roh threw himself off a steep cliff around 6:40 a.m., police and lawyer Moon Jae-in said in the southern… Continue
JONESBORO, Georgia - A Georgia man has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for poisoning his children to extort money from Campbell's Soup Co.
William Cunningham was sentenced Thursday after a jury found him guilty on seven counts of aggravated assault for forcing the children in 2006 to eat soup laced with prescription drugs and lighter fluid.
His 3-year-old son and 18-month-old daughter were hospitalized twice. A family… Continue
Carolin Berger, whose porn star name is “Cora,” set out to break a world record by, uh, orally pleasuring 200 dudes. But after reaching the 75th guy, Cora was rushed to the hospital because she couldn’t breathe. Yeah, of course she couldn’t breathe! We can barely breathe when giving, you know, one blow job. Hey, do you think the docs in the ER had to give her mouth-to-mouth?
Anyhow, sadly, this isn’t the first time that Cora’s sexcapades… Continue
Nick Cannon was pretty steamed over Eminem's brutal lampooning of the singer and his wife, Mariah Carey, in the song, "Bagpipes from Baghdad, which appears on Eminem's new LP, Relapse. Cannon wrote and then quickly took down a long blog post where he accused Eminem of being racially insensitive and "still obsessed with my wife, the same female that wouldn't let him get to second base from eight years ago"; Eminem later said Cannon had misinterpreted… Continue
An NYPD sergeant at the center of the Brooklyn South Narcotics scandal was acquitted Thursday of corruption charges but convicted of official misconduct.
The split verdict from a Brooklyn judge means Michael Arenella won't go to prison for 25 years, but he will lose his job.
The cop supervised a rogue team of narcs on the midnight shift who were charged with stealing crack and cash from drug dealers to pay off… Continue
Actor Sean Penn has withdrawn papers this week requesting a legal separation from his wife of 13 years, actress Robin Wright Penn, according to news reports in the New York Daily News and the syndicated TV show "Extra."
Penn, 48, originally filed papers in Marin County Superior Court on April 24, asking for joint legal custody of the couple's two children. His wife would have had 30… Continue
May 22, 2009. Yesterday, MediaTakeOut.com told you about the tense stand off that occurred between rapper Trina (Denver Nugget Kenyon Martin's fiance) and Kobe Bryant’s wife Vanessa. Well now we’re starting to get SOME INSIGHT into what the problem may be between the two women.
MediaTakeOut.com just got wind of some EXPLOSIVE NEWS!!! Apparently Trina may have been one of Kobe Bryant’s jump offs. Where are we getting this from … Well … it came from Trina’s OWN… Continue
Like most people, rapper Bubba Sparxxx doesn't go to Hooters for the wings ... he allegedly goes there to pick up illegal narcotics.
Sparxxx -- who sang the Timbaland produced song "Ugly" a while back -- was arrested Sunday night at a Clearwater, Fla. Hooters after an off-duty police officer allegedly spotted someone handing him drugs, according to Tampabay.com.
A subsequent search of Bubba turned up the… Continue