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Wedding rumors swirl around Romo, Simpson.

Singer-actress Jessica Simpson and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo are secretly married, Simpson's mother said, according to several Internet reports. But Romo's agent denied that the quarterback was married. Simpson was leaving a Chili's restaurant with her mother, Tina, on Tuesday when mama Simpson revealed the secret. "Jessica is already married to Tony. What are you talking about?," Tina Simpson reportedly said. read more msnbc.com

Las Vegas-set thriller '21' has the best odds.

The Sony Pictures film is expected to lead the box-office charts this weekend with ticket sales of at least $20 million. This weekend, the campaign gets intense. Not the Clinton-Obama one, but the Sony Pictures campaign to make Jim Sturgess into a major movie star. The 26-year-old British actor, who broke out last fall in Sony's musical "Across the Universe," has a supporting role in the studio's bodice-ripper "The Other Boleyn Girl" and now headlines its blackjack drama "21," also starring Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne and Kate Bosworth. Odds are, the PG-13-rated, Las Vegas-themed thriller will be Sturgess' biggest success yet and lead the box-office charts this weekend with ticket sales of at least $20 million. The teen-oriented spoof "Superhero Movie," made by Weinstein Co.'s genre label Dimension Films and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, looks like the strongest of today's other big releases, based on consumer tracking surveys. Paramount Pictures' "Stop-Loss" could be the latest Iraq war drama that audiences avoid in droves.
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'Stop-Loss' .

Ryan Phillippe, who leads an outstanding cast, plays an American soldier who resists an order to return to Iraq. By Kenneth Turan, Times Movie Critic Four thousand Americans and counting have died in Iraq, and the litany of unsuccessful films about that part of the world -- "The Situation," "Redacted," "Rendition," "The Kingdom," "In The Valley of Elah" among others -- is growing as well. Do not add “Stop-Loss” to that list. "Stop-Loss" is a film that does it right. The story of a young American soldier played by Ryan Phillippe who resists an order to return to Iraq, "Stop-Loss" covers some of the same territory as those other features. The difference here is a quality of propulsive emotional intensity that pushes us over rough spots as it drives us insistently forward. An intensity that must be credited to director and co-writer ■ Kimberly Peirce.
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Manhattan High-Rise Fire Injures 45, 3 Seriously .

NEW YORK — Firefighters say a blaze that burst through windows in a Manhattan apartment building sent 45 people to hospitals, 30 of them firefighters. The Fire Department says two civilians have life-threatening injuries, and a third is seriously hurt. All the other victims' injuries are considered minor. Investigators are working to determine what started the three-alarm blaze Thursday evening. It began on the third floor of a 26-story apartment building on Grand Street, on the Lower East Side. Firefighters and residents say dense, black smoke seeped through the building, making it hard to breathe. FDNY Deputy Chief James Daley says two firefighters became disoriented in a burning apartment, but they were able to escape. Besides the people taken to hospitals, two other civilians were hurt but declined treatment.
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Woman says TSA forced piercings removal .

LOS ANGELES — A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation. "I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone," Mandi Hamlin said at a news conference. "My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way." Hamlin, 37, said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems. read more -foxnews.com

Australian Farmer Finds Mysterious Ball of Space Junk.

A farmer in the Australian outback is on a mission to identify a strange ball of twisted metal — purported to be fallen space junk — which mysteriously turned up on his remote property. James Stirton of Cheepie, 80 miles from the town of Charleville in southwestern Queensland, was heading out to feed cattle on his 100,000-acre ranch when he came upon the bizarre-looking blackened ball. "It was just off the road and I had been going up there every couple of days to feed cattle, so I would be surprised if it had been there more than a week," Stirton said. "We got a shock when we first saw it. I had no idea what it was." read more -foxnews.com

Panel falls off plane wing in midflight .

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday that it is investigating an incident in which a panel separated from the wing of a Boeing 757 while it was in flight last week. The incident occurred Saturday on US Airways Flight 1250 from Orlando, Florida, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the NTSB said in a statement. The separation occurred over Maryland. The aircraft landed in Philadelphia about 30 minutes later, and none of the 174 passengers or six crew members aboard was injured. read more -cnn.com

'X-Files' fans get a taste of the 2008 sequel .

You must remember this: A kiss is just a kiss -- unless, that is, it's a kiss between paranormal investigators Fox Mulder and Dana Scully projected larger than life on the giant screen of the Cinerama Dome. That kiss -- a highlight from "The X-Files" -- became a lightning bolt that sparked squeals of delight from many jammed into the historic theater for a retrospective tribute to the Fox drama, which centered on the adventures of two FBI agents exploring the supernatural and the unexplainable. The series, which starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, ended in 2002 after nine seasons. read more -latimes.com

Madonna works out to Britney tunes.

Britney Spears got the thumbs up from former duet partner Madonna on Thursday. In an interview on New York’s Z100, Madonna told host JJ that she is a fan of Spears’ “Blackout.” “I actually love Britney Spears’ new album. I listen to that a lot,” Madonna said. In fact, she does more than just listen. “I usually work out to her record,” Madonna said. “I do a combination of Pilates and dance aerobics.” Madonna also got candid about Britney’s ex, Justin Timberlake, who contributed to her new album “Hard Candy,” which comes out April 29. Earlier this month it was revealed that Madonna had given Timberlake a Vitamin B shot. It wasn’t so she could see his bottom, as Z100's JJ suggested. read more -msnbc.com

Britney may get another chance at acting.

Now that Britney Spears has raked in rave reviews for her bit part in the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” there’s a new acting offer on the table. The Daily Star reports that the-powers-that-be behind a new London theater production of the Tennessee Williams classic “A Streetcar Named Desire” offered the pop star the role of tragic boozer Blanche DuBois. “Britney’s been on the list for this for some time but was considered too risky until recently,” an insider revealed. “Her appearance in (the TV show) ‘How I Met Your Mother’ changed all that. She had poise, timing and a real flair.” read more -msnbc.com

The Times apologizes over article on rapper.

A Los Angeles Times story about a brutal 1994 attack on rap superstar Tupac Shakur was partially based on documents that appear to have been fabricated, the reporter and editor responsible for the story said Wednesday. Reporter Chuck Philips and his supervisor, Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin, issued statements of apology Wednesday afternoon. The statements came after The Times took withering criticism for the Shakur article, which appeared on latimes.com last week and two days later in the paper's Calendar section. The criticism came first from The Smoking Gun website, which said the newspaper had been the victim of a hoax, and then from subjects of the story, who said they had been defamed. "In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job," Philips said in a statement Wednesday. "I'm sorry." read more latimes.com

Girl, 8, Reportedly Died After Developing Dentist Phobia.

Sophie Waller's phobia was so bad that she had to go to the hospital just to have a tooth removed, according to the report. Doctors at Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, England, removed her baby teeth in a single surgery to avoid a repeat procedure, but afterwards she refused to open her mouth to eat and had to be fed through a tube, it is reported. Following her release from the hospital, Sophie continued her refusal to eat, with the exception of some watermelon. Her weight plummeted and health worsened until she was found dead in her bed by her mother a month later. Her parents, Janet and Richard Waller, have demanded to know why an inquest into Sophie's December 2005 death has yet to be held. ...read more foxnews.com

Man 'chose beer over dying girlfriend'.

A MAN attacked his girlfriend and then refused to go to hospital to see her before she died because he had not finished his beer, a Sydney judge has been told. During a sentencing hearing in the New South Wales Supreme Court today, Justice Roderick Howie was told Edward David Zammit threw the woman against a fridge and a cupboard, after she told his ex-girlfriend that he sometimes hit her. The court was told Deslie Ward had stopped breathing and had no pulse by the time an ambulance arrived, but Zammit declined to go to hospital with her, saying he was waiting on phone calls. When she began showing signs of life and he was again urged to go to the hospital, Zammit declined, saying: "I'm waiting for phone calls and besides that they just poured me a beer".
read more -news.com.au

Life in jail for hitman who shot 'vampire'.

A MAN has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a male prostitute and self-proclaimed vampire. The man, who can be identified only as JP for legal reasons, pleaded guilty in the Victorian Supreme Court last year to the 2003 murder of Shane Chartres-Abbott. Mr Chartres-Abbott, 28, was gunned down in front of his partner and father outside his home at Reservoir, in Melbourne's, on June 4, 2003. At the time, Mr Chartres-Abbott was on trial for the rape and maiming of a woman who had hired him as a prostitute. The Supreme Court was told the hitman claimed he was asked to carry out the murder as a favour for an associate and two police officers helped him both before and after the crime. read more -news.com.au

Mom charged in kids’ deaths after standoff .

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A mother allegedly killed her two children in their beds and later went to the college she attended with a gun on Thursday before handing over the weapon to a health counselor, police said. The threat at the University of Louisville ended with no injuries about half an hour after it began, but school officials asked police to check on the children, and they were found dead with gunshot wounds. Gail Lynn Coontz, 37, is charged with murder in the deaths of 14-year-old Greg Coontz and 10-year-old Nikki Coontz, said Louisville police Officer Phil Russell
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3 dead in hospital shooting in Georgia .

COLUMBUS, Ga. - A retired teacher bearing a grudge over his mother's treatment at the hospital where she died fatally shot one of her nurses, another employee and a man outside Thursday before police shot him, authorities said. Charles Johnston, 63, is being charged with murder and will be turned over to police after an overnight stay in another hospital, where he was treated for a shoulder wound, Police Chief Ricky Boren said. The chief said the gunman arrived at Doctors Hospital with three pistols, including a 9mm automatic and a .38-caliber revolver, and went to the fifth-floor intensive care unit where his mother had been in 2004.
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21 Die in Indonesia After Drinking 'Herbal Remedy' Concoction.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian police say they are investigating the deaths of 21 people who drank a concoction labeled an herbal remedy.
Lt. Col. Yatim Suyatmo said Friday officers had yet to determine whether the brew was deliberately poisoned or inadvertently contaminated during production. The victims in the town of Jambi on Sumatra island all died over the last two weeks, he said. He said the drink was made in a local factory. Scores of companies in Indonesia produce pills and drinks labeled as herbal remedies or tonics. The government, which is seeking to regulate the sector, say many contain unspecified chemicals. read more -foxnews.com

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