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Rachel Zoe has decided to cancel her fall 2014 runway show just days before New York Fashion Week is set to begin. According to an official release from the designer and longtime stylist’s PR reps, Zoe’s latest family addition— second son Kaius was born on December 22— and subsequently busy personal schedule was the culprit in the last minute change …

Legendary supermodel Christie Brinkley retired from the runway decades ago and is still the envy of women half her age. The mother of four has shunned plastic surgery, saying that she hasn’t gone under the knife but wouldn’t rule it out in future to preserve her stunning looks.

The circus comes to Jacksonville Monday. But this ring of murder, white-on-black crime and racial tension is not the kind you bring the kids to. On the high wire is 47-year-old Michael David Dunn, accused of murdering 17-year-old Jordan Davis after an argument over his loud “thug music.” The ringmaster is State Attorney Angela Corey, trying to rehabilitate her national …

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is maintaining support from some fellow Republicans following new allegations that he was aware of lane closings that intentionally snarled traffic onto the George Washington Bridge. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and U.S. Representative Paul Ryan, the party’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, said Christie should remain chairman of the Republican Governors Association, which raises money for …

Don’t hold your breath for another edition of Metallica‘s Orion Music + More festival. Frontman James Hetfield said in a January 27th interview with a Houston radio station that the two-year-old event “has been a disaster financially, and it’s not able to happen again because of that. So it’s a bummer.”

The judge who presided over Amanda Knox’s second murder conviction says he suffered over the verdict but that he and the jury agreed about her guilt in the death of British student Meredith Kercher. Judge Alessandro Nencini said he agreed to be interviewed by Corriere della Sera for Saturday’s editions because he knew the sentence would create a media storm.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, the Oscar-winning actor who played everything from a maverick CIA agent to a drag queen to a Catholic priest, has died. He was 46. Hoffman was found in his Manhattan apartment at 35 Bethune St. in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan this morning, according to the New York Police Department, which is investigating.

Natasha Stewart aka Memphis hip hop entertainer and model, Pebbelz Da Model, has been found guilty and convicted of manslaughter in her trial set in Mississippi for her role in the fatal butt injection of victim Karima Gordon, 37, out of Atlanta.

A Pittsford man, found with a loaded rifle and machete, was arrested Friday in Manhattan after allegedly threatening to kill former President George W. Bush, according to police and media reports. Benjamin Smith, 44, was arrested by the Secret Service after telling agents he was divorced and “working on a relationship with Barbara Bush.” Reuters, quoting from a criminal complaint …

During a raid last night on a New York City narcotics packaging facility, investigators found 33 pounds of heroin and thousands of glassine bags stamped with the NFL logo and other drug brands like “Government Shutdown,” and “iPhone.” Along with seizing the heroin–which agents valued at $8 million–two men were arrested at the Bronx location. A Drug Enforcement Administration evidence …

Lightning in Burundi killed 7 high school students and wounded 51 others when it struck a classroom where they were sheltering from a ferocious storm.