• '60 Minutes' Correspondent Bob Simon Dead After Car Crash in NYC

    What a crushing week for those working in journalism. Brian Williams seems to have an embellishment problem, Jon Stewart is "restless" and things at "The View" are so bad that even Barbara Walters will not return as a guest host. All that stuff seemed difficult until CBS was dealt a horrible blow last night, Feb. 11, when the car carrying legendary "60 Minutes" correspondent and industry icon Bob Simon careened out of control on the West Side Highway, resulting in a car crash so bad that Simon and the driver had to be cut out of the flattened vehicle. Unfortunately, Simon was pronounced dead at Roosevelt Hospital.
  • Family of ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller Confirms Death

    After a few days of uncertainty, the White House confirmed this morning that humanitarian worker Kayla Jean Mueller has lost her life while in the custody of ISIS militants. Her family had received word from her captors last weekend that she had been killed during Jordanian airstrikes and, while they are not exactly sure how her daughter died, they have now authenticated her death.
  • Stephen Belafonte Accused of Holding Wife Mel B Hostage in London Home Last Month

    Is Mel B's -- aka Melanie Brown's -- marriage of seven years to Stephen Belafonte an absolute disaster? Well, one thing for sure is that the couple has been plagued with several rumors and scandalous allegations since she missed the U.K.'s "X Factor" finale in December. There have been many twists and turns in the story of what supposedly transpired last month, and now it seems Belafonte is wanted for questioning in London in connection with accusations that he held his wife hostage in their home for four days.
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