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Sharon Osbourne Says $250K DNA Screening Saved Her Life

Dave Swanson — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:10:21 +0000

Over the last fifteen years or so, the lives of Sharon and Ozzy Osbournehave pretty much been open books for all to gawk at. Now Sharon is opening the book to show how DNA testing saved her life. “It was hugely expensive â€“- $250,000,” she told Howard Stern, “The scientists wanted to see how Ozzy [...]

'Gangnam Style' Has Now Killed a Man

Emerald Catron — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:01:13 +0000

It was really only a matter of time before the force of "nature" that is 'Gangnam Style' took a life. That time has come. A 46-year-old man's heart wasn't quite up to the task of horse shuffle dancing that the song requires, and he had a heart attack at his office's holiday party in Blackburn, Lancashire, England.

Hairstylist, Entrepreneur and Fashion Legend Vidal Sassoon Dies at 84

Kathy Landin — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:00:13 +0000

This morning, legendary hairstylist Vidal Sassoon passed away in his home at the age of 84, according to a Los Angeles police department spokesperson. The renowned salon kingpin died of “apparent natural causes.” At 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, police were called to Sassoon’s home in Bel Air. “When officers arrived, there were family members at [...]

R.I.P. Maurice Sendak, Author Of 'Where The Wild Things Are'

Sean O'Connell — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:49:46 +0000

There’s going to be a wild rumpus in heaven tonight. Maurice Sendak, beloved author and illustrator of such children’s classics as ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and the controversial ‘In the Night Kitchen,’ passed away in Danbury, Conn. following complications from a recent stroke. He was 83. Sendak started publishing stories in the 1950s, reaching [...]

Coca-Cola Addiction May Have Killed New Zealand Woman

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:30:33 +0000

When you were a kid, your mom probably told you if you kept drinking Coke, your teeth would fall out. Natasha Harris kept drinking Coke and something a lot worse happened. The 30-year old died. Harris, a stay-at-home mother of eight, actually passed away two years ago. But in New Zealand, where she was from, unexplained and [...]

Deaths from Pedestrians Wearing Headphones Are Skyrocketing

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:39 +0000

Anybody who’s walked and worn headphones at the same time knows that listening to tunes reduces your awarness of what is going on around you. Just how much was highlighted in a new study published in the journal Injury Prevention, which found that the number of pedestrians in the US who have died or were [...]