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Creed singer Scott Stapp ‘homeless and broke’, AKA the singer of Creed whose voice you couldn’t escape during the late ’90s, says he can no longer afford rent or food, according to TMZ.

Music legend Joni Mitchell says she stopped plans for Taylor Swift to play her in a biopic based on Sheila Weller’s book Girls Like Us. The book traces the story of a trifecta of singer/songwriters – Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King.

Tamir Rice was playing with a replica gun at the edge of a park when a police car pulled up and shot him seconds later. An onlooker called 911 and said there was a man with a weapon but cautioned the dispatcher that it was “probably fake”.

Mammography could soon become painless, if a new device and protocols developed by researchers are adopted.

It looks like Prince has had enough of social media. Prince has deleted his Facebook and Twitter accounts and pulled all of his music from YouTube. The Prince Vevo account now only has three clips: the “Breakfast Can Wait” video, a behind-the-scenes piece on “Breakfast Can Wait,” and a short interview.

In the latest marketing stunt aimed at pulling on people’s heartstrings in advance of the holiday season, Dutch airline KLM brought some flyers to tears recently by enlisting their loved ones to write personal messages that were then left on the headrests.

Branson Riley Carlisle, 5, died Sunday at a hospital in Albertville after being bitten by a brown recluse spider.

Passengers Push Plane In Siberia In Freezing Temperatures, at least 70 oil workers in Siberia are now being investigated by Russian authorities after a video posted on YouTube showed them flexing muscle and pushing a Siberian airliner after its chassis got frozen and stuck in biting minus 52 degrees Celsius temperatures.

Bernie Tiede, the inspiration for Richard Linklater’s film Bernie, has won his appeal — and he may be set free from prison for good. The former Panola County resident was found guilty in the 1997 murder case of Marjorie Nugent, 81, back in February 1999 and later sentenced to life in prison. However, in May of this year, Tiede was …

They are missing arms and legs, have deformed eyes and hearts and endure constant pain, lifelong symptoms of a monstrous “miracle drug.” Thalidomiders have learned to live with those disabilities. What they cannot endure is more injustice: the poisonous silence in response to their pleas for help.

Lebanese actress and singer Sabah, an icon from the Arab world’s golden age of cinema, died in Beirut on Wednesday at the age of 87. The singer’s family confirmed the news in a Facebook post, reported Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper.