Incidents

Cops say Whitney Houston found underwater, funeral to be in NJ

Published on Feb 13 2012 // Incidents, Latest News

Whitney Houston Whitney Houston was under water and apparently unconscious when she was found in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub, police said Monday, as the singer’s family prepared to send her body to her native New Jersey for a funeral. The singer was found Saturday by a member of her personal...

French Senate Adopts Armenian Genocide Bill

Published on Jan 23 2012 // Incidents, Latest News

The French Senate adopted bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial after long debates on Monday. President of France will ratify the law in 15 days after receiving the finally adopted law from the government. He can ask the parliament to review the full law or certain articles. The review cannot...

Tracy Morgan Hospitalized at Sundance Following Collapse

Published on Jan 23 2012 // Incidents, Latest News

Tracy Morgan Serious news for funnyman Tracy Morgan. The 30 Rock star, 43, is currently being hospitalized at Park City Medical Center in Park City, Utah after collapsing at a Sundance Film Festival event Sunday night. UPDATE: Morgan’s rep tells Us Weekly: “From a combination of exhaustion...

Larry Gagosian Sued for Selling Lichtenstein Painting Without Owner’s Consent

Published on Jan 23 2012 // Incidents, Latest News

Larry Gagosian A prominent art collector has sued the dealer Larry Gagosian, claiming that he sold a 1964 Roy Lichtenstein painting from her collection without her consent. The suit, filed Wednesday in state court in Manhattan, is part of a tangle of art deals that led to two earlier lawsuits against...

Human head found in bag on hiking trail near Hollywood sign

Published on Jan 18 2012 // Incidents, Latest News

Los Angeles police detectives were at the scene of a hiking trail below the Hollywood sign on Tuesday afternoon after a dog found a human head inside a bag. The detectives are treating the case as a possible homicide, officials said, adding that they are looking for other body parts in the area. The...

Cruise Ship Capsizes Off Italy, at Least 3 Dead, 40 Missing (Video, Photo)

Published on Jan 14 2012 // Incidents, Latest News

At least three people were killed and about 40 were missing after a Carnival Corp. cruise ship with 4,229 passengers and crew ran aground near the island of Giglio off the west coast of Italy. The Costa Concordia hit rocks near the island late yesterday a few hours after sailing north from Rome,...

Restaurant Owner Suren Mkrtchyan Detained on Suspicion of Causing Death by Negligence

Published on Jan 13 2012 // Incidents, Latest News

Suren Mkrtchyan The police have detained the Director General of Casabella, Suren Mkrtchyan, owner of the Il Pittore Restaurant where a blast occurred on January 9, killing 3 and injuring 38, News Armenia reports. The blast happened in the Italian restaurant on Monday. Two staff members and a client...

Joran Van Der Sloot Sentenced to 28 Years in Peru (Video)

Published on Jan 13 2012 // Incidents, Latest News

Joran Van Der Sloot Joran van der Sloot, the only suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, was sentenced today to 28 years in a Peruvian prison in the strangling death of Stephany Flores. And now that Peru has settled its case, Holloway’s family hopes that van der Sloot...

US Marines Soldiers urinate on dead Taliban fighters (Video)

Published on Jan 13 2012 // Incidents, Latest News

BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhuanet) — US and Afghan officials have roundly denounced a video that purported to depict four US marines urinating on the remains of Taliban fighters. Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the US military to punish the marines for the “completely inhumane”...

Armenian Legendary Secret Agent Gevorg Vardanyan Dies at Age 87

Published on Jan 11 2012 // Incidents, Latest News

Gevorg and Gohar Vardanyan Soviet intelligence agent of Armenian origin, Hero of the Soviet Union Gevork Vartanian (Gevorg Vardanyan) died on Jan. 10 in Moscow at the age of 87. Vartanian was born in present-day Rostov-on-Don on Feb. 17, 1924. His father was a Soviet agent as well, and when Vartanian...