Actor Shia LaBeouf Not Cause of Accident

The actor Shia LaBeouf was found not be the cause of the car of recent car accident that he was involved in this past weekend. Authorities say that the other driver is to blame for running a red light and will be cited. After the accident LaBeouf was booked for a misdemeanor DUI and had surgery done for injuries to his left hand.

Rapper Wyclef Jean Sued by Jewelry Company

or watches and jewelry that he bought. They say that he bought several items from the company between March 2002 and January 2006 that totaled $765,100. They say that he still owes $319,680 and they have demanded payment many times.

The founder of the jewelery company, known as “Jacob the Jeweler,” was sentenced in June to 2 ½ years in federal prison for lying to investigators about a multistate drug ring.

XM Satellite and Sirius Completes Merger

XM Satellite and Sirius Satellite Radio have completed their merger. The merged company will change its name to Sirius XM Radio Inc. Their stock will continue to be traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol SIRI. The company now has more than 18.5 million subscribers and expects to save about $400 million in costs in 2009.

Actor Shia LeBeouf Booked for DUI After Car Accident

The actor Shia LeBeouf was arrested and then later released for misdemeanor DUI following a recent car accident that happened this past weekend. He was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he was treated for injuries to his left hand and knee. He also had a minor head injury. He was driving while intoxicated when he made a left turn in front of another car and caused a collision.

Actor Shia LeBeouf Gets Into Car Accident

It is reported that the actor Shia LeBeouf was in a car accident last night. He was in Hollywood at the time and was driving drunk. He had made a left turn in front of another car and the two cars collided, which caused Shia's car to roll. Nobody involved in the accident had any major injuries on the scene but both parties were still taken to the local hospital to be checked out. If the other party happens to have serious injuries, then he will be arrested on suspicion of felony DUI. If the injuries are minor, then he will be cited and released on a misdemeanor DUI.

California Bans Restaurants From Using Trans Fats

On Friday, California became the first state to ban the use of trans fats in restaurants . Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a legislation that will ban restaurants and other retail food establishments from using oil, margarine, and shortening that contains trans fats.
This legislation would start to take effect on January 1, 2010. Restaurants that violate the ban could face fines between $25 and $1,000 and the only exception would be food that is sold in manufactures' sealed packaging. Both California and Oregon already have laws that ban trans fat from being served in schools.

Trans fats are naturally in meat and dairy products in small amounts. Most trans fats are made when vegetable oil is treated with hydrogen to make baked and fried foods have a longer shelf life. Trans fats are considered bad because they are supposedly linked to coronary heart disease.

Rappers Foxy Brown and Lil Kim Gets Sued

The rappers Foxy Brown and Lil Kim are being used by a New York publisher, named Simon &Schuster Inc., which stated that they paid advances for books that were never delivered. Foxy Brown was paid $75,000 in 2005 for an autobiography called “Broken Silence” that was suppose to be delivered by February of 2006. Lil Kim was paid $40,000 for a book to be delivered by June of 2004.

The publisher wants its money back through the two separate lawsuits that were filed on Thursday. After signing the deals, both women spent time imprisoned. Lil Kim went to prison for lying in court about a shooting in 2005 and Foxy Brown was imprisoned for violating her probation by starting a fight with two manicurists in 2007.

Rapper 50 Cent Sues Taco Bell

The rapper 50 Cent is suing Taco Bell because he says that the restaurant has used his name without his permission in their advertising that asks him to call himself 99 Cent. In a federal lawsuit, he also claimed that the Taco Bell print ad features him asking to change his name to 79 Cent, 89 Cent, or 99 Cent. The ad is part of a Taco Bell "Why Pay More?" campaign that promotes items that cost less than a dollar.

The company supposedly sent a bogus letter that requested the name change to the news media but not to 50 Cent. He didn't find out about the letter or that he was featured in the ad campaigns until he saw a news report about it. He wants $4 million in damages.

Rapper DMX Indicted on Charges

The rapper DMX has been indicted on felony charges by a grand jury in Arizona for using a false name to avoid paying for a hospital bill. He has been charged with one count of theft and one count of taking someone else's identity. He went to Scottsdale's Mayo Clinic in April using the name “Troy Jones” to receive medical care even though his real name is Earl Simmons and didn't have any intentions on paying the bill.

Kid Rock Sentenced to Probation

On Monday, Kid Rock was sentence to serving a year of probation and was fined $1,000 for his part in a fight at an Atlanta Waffle House this past fall. He was also sentenced to six hours of anger management counseling and 80 hours of community service. He pleaded no contest to one count of simple battery and four counts of battery were dropped.

Five members of his entourage were also arrested because of the fight. Two of them pleaded no contest and also received probation and community service. Charges were dropped against the other three people since the court decided that they weren't involved in the altercation after viewing the videotape.

Amy Winehouses’s Husband Receives Jail Sentence

On Monday, a judge sentenced Amy Winehouse’s husband to 27 months in jail for assault and obstruction of justice. Her husband, named Blake Fielder-Civil, admitted to beating up a pub manager, named James King, in a barroom fight in 2006 and offering him $400,000 to be quiet about it. The judge told Fielder-Civil that he had behaved in a gratuitous, cowardly, and disgraceful manner. Amy Winehouse wasn’t present in the courtroom.

Rapper Lil Scrappy Free After Arrest

The rapper Lil Scrappy is free from jail on bond after being arrested for getting into a fight with his sister’s boyfriend. He was released on a $1,500 bond from the Dekalb County jail in Georgia on Sunday.

Lil Scrappy had gotten into the fight with his sister’s boyfriend after the couple had an argument. The rapper was stabbed during the fight, but the injuries were minor. The police arrested him and charged him with felony marijuana possession, felony use of a weapon during a crime, misdemeanor obstruction of police officers, and misdemeanor battery. The boyfriend wasn’t charged with anything.

Angelina Jolie Goes Home with Twins

giving birth a week ago. Jolie and the babies are reportedly doing well. To avoid the paparazzi she left out of one the hospital’s back entrances in a van. It isn’t known if Brad Pitt was there at the time.

Jolie checked into the hospital on July 2^nd and delivered a healthy baby girl, named Vivienne Marcheline, and a baby boy, named Knox Leon, ten days after arriving. The babies were born a little early due to medical reasons and so that they could be born as healthy as possible. A U.S. publication has already paid $11 million for the exclusive rights to the first photos of the twins and that money will go to charity.

Rapper DMX Arrested at Arizona Mall

The rapper DMX was arrested at a mall in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday after suspicion that he gave a false name and Social Security number to a hospital to avoid paying for medical expenses. He went to Scottsdale’s Mayo Clinic in April and used the name Troy Jones, even though his real name is Earl Simmons, and tried to avoid paying the $7,500 bill.

DMX started being investigated about this incident after an animal neglect investigation that happened last year at his Phoenix home. The bond for this recent case has not been set yet.

DMC of Rap Group Run DMC Has Surgery

The rapper DMC, named Darryl McDaniels, from the legendary rap group Run DMC was scheduled to have surgery done to remove blood clots at a New Jersey hospital on Friday. He had two major blood clots in his left arm and was suffering from pain and swelling when doctors discovered the clots. It is not known when he will be released from the hospital and he has already canceled a performance scheduled for the weekend.

Khloe Kardashian Serves Three Hours in Jail

Kloe Kardashian, the youngest daughter of late lawyer Robert Kardashian and reality TV star, had to spend three hours in a Los Angeles jail for violating her probation that came from a drunken driving arrest that happened last year. Soon before she arrived, someone called in a bomb threat to the facility and it had to be locked down. The threat was not related to Kardashian and she was put in a holding cell for her safety.

Earlier this month, a judge sentenced her for up to 30 days in jail after she admitted that she violated her probation by not enrolling into an alcohol education class and cleaning up roadside trash.

50 Cent Passes Drug Test

The rapper 50 Cent is able to take his son on vacation after passing a court-ordered drug test. He was in a Long Island courtroom on Thursday to ask a judge for permission to take his 11 year old son, Marquise, on a trip scheduled for next month. A drug test was ordered and came back clean.

Marquise lives with his mother, Shaniqua Tompkins. She recently blamed 50 Cent for a fire that destroyed the Long Island mansion where she and their son was living. 50 Cent denied any accusations. After the fire, six people, including Shaniqua and Marquise, were treated for smoke inhalation.

Singer Natalie Cole Has Hepatitis C

Natalie Cole, who is a Grammy award winning singer and the daughter of late singer Nat King Cole, has been diagnosed with the disease Hepatitis C. The disease was diagnosed during a routine examination and was possibly caused by her previous drug abuse problems. Her physician, Dr. Graham Woolf, has said that her body is responding well to the medication and is now virus negative. She is now recovering from side effects from the medication, which would include fatigue, muscle aches, and dehydration. Hepatitis C is a liver disease that is spread by contact with infected blood.

James Brown’s Belongings Ready to be Auctioned

A judge in South Carolina gave the okay for the auction of the late singer James Brown’s belongings. The judge lifted a temporary stay that could have held up the auction. Christie’s auction house has it planned for the auction to take place on Thursday and there would be 320 items up for sale, which would include a red jumpsuit and a blue satin cape. James Brown had died on Christmas Day of 2006 at the age of 73 of heart failure.

Death Row Records Auctioned

Death Row Records Company was auctioned for $24 million, which had released albums by Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Tupac Shakur in the past. On June 24^th, Global Music Group Inc. purchased the music label and its black catalog and its current artist contracts because the company had gone down due to debt and mismanagement.

Financial problems came to Death Row Records recently when a former couple, named Lydia and Michael Harris, took the company to court and stated that they had helped found the label. They won a judgment of $107 million and tried to collect it in 2006. The label was not able to pay the amount and filed bankruptcy in April of 2006 and claimed debts of over $100 million. Also in 2006, a federal judge ordered for a bankruptcy trustee to takeover Death Row Records and said that the label had gross management. The decision to file bankruptcy saved the company from the decision of the court to appoint someone to take control of the record label and its assets.

Heart Doctor Pioneer Michael DeBakey Dies

Dr. Michael DeBakey, the famous cardiovascular surgeon that pioneered the bypass surgery and inventor of many devices to help people with heart problems, has died at the age of 99 from natural causes at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX. In 1932, while he was still in medical school, he invented the roller pump, which later became the most important part of the heart-lung machine. The machine takes over the responsibilities of the heart and lungs during surgery. He was also the pioneer in the development of artificial hearts and heart pumps to help people waiting for transplants. He had helped to create more than 70 surgical instruments in his lifetime.

In the 1950s, DeBakey was the first person to perform the replacement of arterial aneurysms and obstructive lesions. He had developed bypass pumps and connections to replace parts of diseased arteries.

He had performed more than 60,000 heart surgeries in his career that lasted 70 years. His patients had included the Duke of Windsor, the Shah of Iran, King Hussein of Jordan, Turkish President Turgut Ozal, Nicaraguan leader Violetta Chamorro, President Kennedy, President Johnson, and President Nixon. He was a consultant when Russian President Boris Yeltsin had surgery.

He served as the chairman of the President’s Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke during President Johnson’s administration. He had helped to establish the National Library of Medicine and was the author of more than 1,000 medical reports, papers, chapters, and books on surgery, medicine, and similar topics.

In 1953, he performed the first Dacron graft to be able to replace part of occluded arteries. In the 1960s he started coronary artery bypasses. In 1966, he was the first person to successfully use a partial artificial heart. In the 1990s, he helped to create the Michael E. DeBakey Heart Instititute at Hays Medical Center.

Angelina Jolie Officially Gives Birth to Twins

The actress Angelina Jolie has given birth to both a boy and a girl. The babies were delivered by Caesarean section on Saturday night. Jolie and the twins are doing well. The baby boy was named Knox Leon and was born weighing just over 5 pounds. The girl was named Vivienne Marcheline and weighed 5 pounds. The babies were born at the seaside Lenval hospital in Nice in southern France. Jolie is expected to stay in the hospital for a few more days.

Hip Hop Singer Nate Dogg Charged With Stalking

The hip hop singer Nate Dogg has been charged by prosecutors on Monday with stalking after he was accused of threatening and stalking his wife. He was arrested last month by the California Highway Patrol after his wife stated that he threatened and followed her while she was driving on a freeway south of Los Angeles.

He will be arraigned on July 16^th on felony counts of making criminal threats, stalking, and a misdemeanor charge of driving while his license was suspended for a drunken driving violation.

Actress Nicole Kidman Gives Birth to Baby

It is reported that the actress Nicole Kidman has given birth to a baby girl on Monday morning of July 7^th in Nashville. The baby is named Sunday Rose Kidman Urban and was born weighing 6 pounds and 7 ½ ounces.

The baby is the first for the couple Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. Kidman as two children, named Isabella and Connor, from her previous marriage to Tom Cruise.

Judge Allows Wesley Snipes to Travel

Judge William Terrell has allowed the actor Wesley Snipes to leave the United States to work on two movies. His lawyers are still working on trying to appeal his income tax convictions. The judge approved for him to be able to travel to London and Bangkok.

Snipes plans to be in London, England for three days this month to do post-production editing of the movie “Gallowwalker.” He will also be in Bangkok, Thailand for eight weeks to film the movie “Chasing the Dragon.”

In February, Snipes was convicted of three counts of willfully failing to file income taxes. He has appealed the convictions and a three year prison sentence to the 11^th Circuit Court in Atlanta.

Rapper DMX Arrested on Outstanding Warrants

The rapper DMX has been arrested at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on outstanding warrants. He was taken into custody on Wednesday morning after coming in from Florida. He is being held on a $1,075 bond for driving with a suspended license and a $10,000 bond from previous drug charges. He was scheduled to appear before a judge on Wednesday.

Angelina Jolie Checks Into Hospital for Birth of Twins

It is reported that the actress Angelina Jolie has checked into the seafront Lenval hospital in Nice in the south of France to be kept under doctor’s surveillance and rest before she gives birth to her twins. It is expected that she will stay in the hospital until she gives birth. The babies are due in August but it is possible that they will be born early. Angelia Jolie and Brad Pitt have four children that are 6 year old Maddox, 4 year old Pax, 3 year old Zahara, and 2 year old Shiloh.

Heath Ledger’s Hometown Names Theater After Him

The hometown of the late actor Heath Ledger had decided to name a theater after him for his commitment to acting. The 575 seat Heath Ledger Theater is located in Perth, which is in Western Australia. Heath Ledger had died earlier this year at his loft in New York of an accidental prescription drug overdose.