…the statement accused John Branca and John McClain of a “relentless” negative media campaign and said that they were barred from visiting their 82-year-old mother or Jackson’s children, Prince, 15, Paris, 14, and Blanket, 10. “The effect of that notice not only is to damage fundamental family relationships, it is also to isolate Katherine Jackson from anyone questioning the validity of Mich…
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el Borcina survived the horrific Christmas day fire at her home that claimed the lives of her three daughters and their grandparents. The girls, Lily, 10, and twins Sarah and Grace, 7, perished in the 5 a.m. fire with Madonna Badger’s parents, Lomer and Pauline Johnson, who were to celebrate their 49th wedding anniversary today. Firefighters desperately tried to reach the family members who…
Famous gymnast Dominique Moceanu, part of the “Magnificent Seven” who won gold at the 1996 Olympics, has revealed how she discovered her parents gave up for adoption a secret sister who had no legs. Dominique Moceanu, now 30 and living in Cleveland, Ohio, only found out about her younger sister two decades later when the woman wrote to her to say she had learned her birth name was Moceanu. “It wa…
Jun 8 2012 | Posted in
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The entire staff of Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles will be replaced after two teachers were arrested for sexual abuse, authorities say. More than 120 staff, 88 teachers and 40 support staff, will be removed and interviewed. No other staff are currently under suspicion. The move comes after three dozen parents and supporters protested in front of the main doors of the school earlier in…
ith us. <<How could you be doing this? You might be ruining his whole life!>>,” said Pauline Moreno. Citing a statistic from the Youth Suicide Prevention Program, Pauline Moreno noted over 50% of transgender youth will have had at least one suicide attempt by their 20th birthday. And ignoring their son’s incessant pleas, Pauline Moreno said, simply was not worth the risk. “What i…
ecret” on Parrot Cay is her “spa house . . . It’s like a private yoga retreat”. But they are not the only big names sunning themselves on the Carribean, for Rolling Stone Keith Richards, fresh off his 50th anniversary tour with his band is also having a richly rewarded break. Apparently the 69-year-old pensioner is relaxing with his “whole family”, and is “in very good spirits”. Other stars spotte…
Dec 30 2012 | Posted in
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ugh oxygen masks to go around. Kathy Fickes told ABC 7: “I felt we were discriminated against because we had too many children in their eyes.” Jason Fickes added that they “held up the plane for 40 or 50 minutes” as the family moved seats and tried to accommodate the airline. The family was finally asked to leave the plane despite one passenger offering to pay for another ticket. On the U.S Airway…
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…0 milligram zinc supplements, depending on age. The researchers found no difference between the two groups in the time it took to recover from infection. But the risk of dying was very different. Just 4% of children taking zinc died compared with 12% of those not taking zinc. For children infected with the AIDS virus, HIV, the supplements had a really dramatic impact. In this group, an extra 26 ou…
…think they should come here.” The latest feud between the Jacksons is said to have been stemmed from a dispute over Michael Jackson’s $500 million will. Michael Jackson died in June 2009 at age 50 and left his estate to care for his mother and three children. He left nothing to his father or siblings, who have repeatedly tried to intervene in the estate. Several have expressed doubts about…
Jul 26 2012 | Posted in
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ften hosted events at Sugar Bar. Bruce Willis, Michael Douglas, Steve Wonder, Whoopi Goldberg, David Rockefeller Jr., and many others attended their New York restaurant. Nick Ashford was born on May 4, 1942, in Fairfield, South Carolina, New York, and he wished to be a dancer. In 1963 he met Valerie at Harlem’s White Rock Baptist Church and they married in 1974. They have two children, Nic…
…8221;Families that had more than one child with autism prior to the birth of this infant [in the study] had almost a one in three risk, or 32%.” “Overall we found this almost 1 in 5 risk, but more like 1 in 4 if the new baby was a boy and 1 in 3 if the family has more than one child with autism.” The results are published in Pediatrics. This new informati…
…during one bout, he said: “The kid has never been beaten before, he is the one who wins the gold medals. When they get beaten, they are going to get emotional.” Kian MacKinson’s father, Nick Hartley, 33, defended the event: “None of the children were ever in danger.” “There is no harm in cage fighting at all. “If he wasn’t cage fighting, he would probably be chucking stones at buses and giving pe…
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Smart interactive pajamas which, when scanned with a camera phone or tablet, can tell bedtime stories, have been invented by Juan Murdoch, a father-of-six from Idaho Falls, Idaho. The pajamas are adorned with 47 clusters of dots that act like barcodes. When a child scans each cluster with a tablet or smartphone camera, a different bedtime story or lesson about an animal is launched. “Kids have a…
Russian cities introduced for the first time the anonymous baby drop boxes, where unwanted children could be left. The Krasnodar Territory in south Russia bought five of the so-called baby drop boxes in the beginning of November so mothers could drop off unwanted children anonymously. The first three boxes were installed in Sochi, Novorossiysk and Armavir, and by the end of the month one child ha…
Jan 29 2012 | Posted in
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…ress appears to be spending most of her time alone with the majority of her social interactions occurring on Twitter, where she’s accrued nearly one million followers. On Thursday, Amanda Bynes, 27, added to the online portfolio by posting two snaps of herself wearing a blonde wig with a thick fringe and green streaks….
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12-year-old Jessica Joy Rees lost her battle with brain cancer on Thursday, few days after her parents wrote on their blog about how they were excited for a great 2012 and being confident that the girl would reach her goal of making 50,000 of her “Joy Jars”. Joy Jars were filled with candy and toys for sick children. Jessica Joy Rees’ parents were exploring other medical treatments in Europe and…
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Christopher and Mary Sultze, of Appleton, Wisconsin, starved their baby girl for months claiming they were afraid she would end up obese, a court has heard. Christopher and Mary Sultze were both charged earlier this month with a felony count of child neglect. The couple face up to a year in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted. According to doctors, the infant gained just 5 pounds in the 14 mon…
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though officially it was claimed she had begun spending time in Manhattan only for work after appearing in the Arthur Miller play All My Sons on Broadway in 2008. Throughout, Tom Cruise – who is 50 tomorrow – has publicly done his best to paint an unlikely picture of domestic bliss. As recently as two weeks ago, he was gushing about how lucky he was to be married, speaking at a Friars…
Jul 2 2012 | Posted in
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Belgium is holding a day of national mourning by coming to a standstill for a minute’s silence at 11:00 a.m. and with flags being flown at half mast to remember the 28 victims of the Switzerland coach crash. After the minute’s silence, church bells rang out. Two planes carrying the bodies of those killed have landed at Melsbroek military airport in Belgium. The C130 planes left Switze…
Mar 16 2012 | Posted in
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Three children in the United States have accidentally chopped off a fingertip after because of a fault with their stroller and two adults have reported smashing or cutting their fingers. The horrific injuries happened after they got a finger jammed in a hinge mechanism used to adjust handlebars on Kolcraft Contours Options products and five models have since been recalled. Around 36,000 defective…
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…yed 157 Amish families, about 3,000 Swiss farming families, and close to 11,000 Swiss families who did not live on a farm – all with children between the ages of six and 12. They found that just 5% of Amish kids had been diagnosed with asthma, compared to 6.8% of Swiss farm kids and 11.2% of the other Swiss children. Similarly, among 138 Amish kids given a skin-prick test to determine whethe…
May 7 2012 | Posted in
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…y food ads – as opposed to toy ads – are far more likely to show unhealthy eating preferences. These effects were especially pronounced among study subjects who typically watched more than 21 hours of TV per week. …
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en were injured, and there are fears the death toll may rise. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his sorrow and offered assistance. The bus is believed to have been carrying up to 50 children at the time of the crash, which happened on a busy road junction. At least one report said a teacher had also been killed. At least eight Palestinian children have been killed in a colli…
…dge Mitchell Beckloff said an investigator who looked into the children’s care found the late singer’s mother was an excellent guardian and the children love her. Michael Jackson died aged 50 from an overdose of the surgical anaesthetic propofol. His former doctor Conrad Murray was jailed for four years in November, after being convicted of the singer’s involuntary manslaughter….
Aug 3 2012 | Posted in
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…iod, the researchers, led by Sean Semple, measured the concentrations of fine particles in cars driven by 17 volunteers, 14 of them smokers. From a total of 104 car journeys 83 were accurately logged, 49 of them being smoking journeys and 34 being smoke free. During the 49 smoking journeys, the driver smoked up to four cigarettes. The levels of fine particles averaged 85 micrograms (mcg) per cubic…
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