NEWARK -- Six women from the Essex County area who wanted fuller bottoms ended up in hospitals after receiving buttocks-enhancement injections containing the same material contractors use to caulk bathtubs, officials said.
The women checked into hospitals in the county after their procedures, apparently administered by unlicensed providers, went horribly wrong, state health officials said. The women underwent surgery and were given… Continue
LOS ANGELES - Three Los Angeles elementary school teachers accused of giving children portraits of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul to carry in a Black History Month parade have been removed from their classrooms, a school district spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Children from other classes at the school displayed photos of more appropriate black role models, such as Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman and President Obama, Los Angeles Unified… Continue
Two teachers are in hot water after their videotaped pep rally dance routine proved too spirited for school officials.
Taken last week at a Winnipeg, Canada high school's pep rally, a video shows a male teacher giving a female teacher a lap dance, with bumping and grinding - and that's making parents and students cringe.
"It embarrassed me. While we were first watching it I said, 'they crossed the line,' " one parent told the Winnipeg Free Press. "My… Continue
Police shot and killed a crazed Bronx man as he bashed his "sweet" mother with a frying pan in their home, police said Monday.
The drama unfolded after a sergeant and officer kicked in the apartment door and found the 32-year-old suspect beating his mother late Sunday night. He refused their order to drop the pan and raised it again, ready to slam the 61-year-old woman again, cops said.
Fantasia Barrino is under a self-imposed lockdown -- after the "American Idol" champ received a threatening letter.
It all started last night at the Pantages Theater in L.A. -- Fantasia was reading her fan mail after a performance of "The Color Purple."
Fantasia's manager tells us Barrino became alarmed over a disturbing letter loaded with racial slurs -- including the n-word -- and a line that read, "go back where you came from… Continue
Marc Jacobs head honcho Robert Duffy has caused quite a stir since developing a recent addiction - to Twitter, that is.
Duffy (who has amassed 6,700 followers on the social networking site) has spilled the beans the past week about almost everything relating to Marc's highly anticipated show Monday, including pictures of some of the collection and the set, and specific instances of "model drama."
WHISTLER - Nodar Kumaritashvili, a 21-year-old luger from the country of Georgia, was killed Friday at the Winter Games following a horrific crash on an exceedingly dangerous luge course.
Hours before the Opening Ceremony at the Vancouver Games, Kumaritashvili lost control of his sled near the bottom of the swift course, crashing at 143.3 kilometers per hour (88 mph) into a metal pillar. He was given CPR on the site through a plastic tube,… Continue
Evander Holyfield’s wife has filed for a protective order after an alleged incident of domestic violence last week.
Candi Holyfield claims that Evander hit her in the face during a February 1 dispute in their Georgia home, according to RadarOnline.com. Court documents state that the couple started scrapping around 4:45 a.m. when she complained that the house was too cold for her and their children.
Jessica Alba left halfway through a screening of her own movie.
The actress slipped out midway through the Sunday premiere of "The Killer Inside Me," a movie stirring outrage at Sundance for its violence toward women, reports the Toronto Star.
"Killer" stars Casey Affleck as a small town Texas sheriff, Lou Ford, who is revealed to be psychotic. He punches and kicks two female characters, played by Alba and Kate Hudson, to a bloody… Continue
Ex-"Happy Days" star Scott Baio says he's received a barrage of death threats after he mocked Michelle Obama on Twitter.
Baio, 48, posted an unflattering picture of the First Lady on Tuesday accompanied by some even more unflattering remarks.
"WOW He wakes up to this every morning," Baio tweeted.
In minutes, the former "Charles in Charge" star received a slew of angry comments.
Anderson Cooper raced to the aid of a badly injured boy in Haiti yesterday -- dropping the camera and carrying the bloodied child away from a violent incident in the middle of a chaotic scene.
Cooper claims he had heard gunfire in the area and raced to see what had happened -- when he noticed some people on the top of a store throwing slabs of concrete down at looters ... one of which smashed a child in the head.
Lady Gaga suddenly canceled her performance at Indiana's Purdue University on Thursday after she collapsed the day of the show and was unable to shake her dizziness and difficulty breathing.
Friday she canceled three more upcoming performances, including one at the Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, after her doctor advised her to take a few days off.
The pop star posted on her Twitter page that on-site paramedics at Perdue… Continue
Before she decided to sue Shaquille O'Neal, Vanessa Lopez was accused of being the worst NBA one-night stand ever --after Kenyon Martin accused her of going through his wallet post-hookup.
According to a 2007 police report filed in Colorado, Martin -- a former #1 pick -- claimed that Lopez got into his wallet without permission and used his credit card to buy $6485.90 worth of clothes on couturecandy.com.
Two arrest warrants have been issued for comedian Kat Williams after he allegedly punched someone in the face at an Atlanta hotel back in November -- and the whole thing was allegedly caught on tape ... audio tape.
Arrest warrants for battery and false imprisonment were issued last month for Katt in Fulton County, GA, stemming from an alleged incident at the Four Seasons Hotel the night of November 12.
Leave the pole-dancing to the pros.
A Manhattan woman who took a nasty spill while dangling from a stripper pole during a workout at an upper East Side Crunch is suing the fitness chain.
Sue Ann Wee says in a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit that she suffered "serious injuries" when she tumbled off the pole during a June class.
"It's a dangerous maneuver," said Nicholas Warywoda, a lawyer for Wee. "But if you tell somebody to… Continue