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NEW YORK (CNN) — Actor Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday of a possible drug overdose in a Lower Manhattan apartment, the New York Police Department said. The Academy Award-nominated actor was 28. Ledger was found naked and unresponsive, facedown on the floor at the foot of his bed by a housekeeper trying to wake him for an appointment with a masseuse, said police spokesman Paul Browne. “Pills were found in the vicinity of the bed,” he told CNN. “This … Continue reading
Here is President Bush’s Statement on the Bhutto Assassination HORRIFYING millions of frightened Pakistanis, Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the country’s biggest political party, was assassinated on Thursday December 27th. Her attacker fired gunshots into her car as she was leaving a political rally in Rawalpindi, then exploded a suicide bomb. At least 15 of Miss Bhutto’s followers were also killed. Miss Bhutto had been campaigning in Rawalpindi, the headquarters of Pakistan’s military elite, for an election set for January … Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Zoo was closed to visitors and considered a crime scene Wednesday as investigators attempted to determine how a tiger escaped from its enclosure and attacked three visitors, killing one of the men and mauling two others. The tiger, a female named Tatiana, was the same animal that ripped the flesh off a zookeeper’s arm just before Christmas 2006. An investigation of that incident by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health faulted the … Continue reading
Update HUNTINGTON — It was the ending no one wanted to hear. Huntington Police detectives tell 13 News the body of Leah Hickman’s was found Friday evening. It was found in the basement of Hickman’s 8th Avenue apartment building near a common laundry area. Police said they are unable to confirm that it is Hickman. In the words of Huntington Police Chief Skip Holbrook, “We strongly believe it is the body of Leah Hickman, but we can not be certain until … Continue reading
Ken Hendricks, the Janesville native who rose from roofer’s son to roofing-company billionaire, died this morning from injuries suffered in a fall at his Afton home Thursday night. Hendricks, 66, apparently was checking on construction work at the home when he fell shortly after 10 p.m. Emergency crews were dispatched to his house in the 4000 block of Eau Claire Road at 10:18 p.m. According to Rock County Sheriff’s Department reports: Diane Hendricks, Ken’s wife, told responders that they had … Continue reading