• Tracy Morgan Declined 'SNL' Invite to Appear on Anniversary Show

    "SNL's" 40th anniversary celebration seemed nearly perfect, didn't it? It felt like the producers thought long and hard about how to include everyone who made a real impact on the show and its viewers over the decades. Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin introduced a clip that was a tribute to Tracy Morgan's contribution to the show rather than the comedian making an appearance himself, and now we are hearing that he simply was not ready to return to television.

  • Soap Star Linsey Godfrey Injured After Being Run Over by Car in L.A.

    Freak accidents can be scary, and no one knows that better than soap star Lindey Godfrey today, Feb. 3. The actress, who portrays Caroline Spencer on "The Bold and the Beautiful" was walking in L.A. yesterday, Feb. 2, when a car careened onto the sidewalk after first hitting another car. The vehicle not only injured Godfrey, but she was pinned beneath the car until a bystander helped to get her out of the wreckage.

  • Investigators Believe Terrorism Wasn't a Factor in Crash of AirAsia Flight 8501

    Terrorism has been a major story over the last few weeks. Between the massacre at Charlie Hebdo's French office, the blood bath at the Parisian market and the terror sweeps in Belgium, it is clearly a frightening topic that is on everyone's mind. Thankfully, terrorism appears to not have contributed to the crash of AirAsia Flight 8501 into the Java Sea a few weeks ago. Divers discovered the black boxes last week and have begun to evaluate the information they contain. According to Indonesian officials, they believe they can safely say that terrorism was not a factor that contributed to the loss of 163 lives on board the aircraft.

  • Tail Has Been Found for Missing AirAsia Plane

    Finally, conditions for the search and recovery of lost AirAsia Flight 8501 have improved enough for divers to spot the tail of the plane. It has been located about 20 miles from the craft's last known location and resting at the bottom of the Java Sea. This is particularly promising news because if it is the right side of the tail, then the black box will likely be recovered with it. That recovery is crucial in helping investigators understand exactly what happened in the final moments of the doomed flight. "We've found the tail that has been our main target," Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo, head of the search and rescue agency, said at a news conference in Jakarta. The tail was identified by divers after it was spotted by an underwater machine using a sonar scan, Soelistyo said. He displayed underwater photographs showing partial lettering on the sunken object compared with a picture of an intact Airbus A320-200 in AirAsia livery. "I can confirm that what we found was the tail part from the pictures," he said, adding that the team "now is still desperately trying to locate the black box," according to a report by Reuters. So far, monsoon-like rain and minimal visibility has made recovering the bodies of the 162 passengers on board difficult, and divers have been frustrated to know that they are so close yet have not been able to fully do their job.

  • Icy Conditions May Have Damaged AirAsia Flight 8501's Engine, Causing Crash

    As pieces of AirAsia Flight 8501 are slowly being recovered from the bottom of the Java Sea, investigators are beginning to put together an idea of what may have happened to the lost plane. We have already learned that the weather, quite obviously, played a big role in the demise of this craft, and while some question whether or not it should have even been flying, there were six other planes nearby that safely navigated through similar conditions. That seems to indicate that perhaps Flight 8501 had another issue, and an Indonesian government agency is the first to publicly lean that way. According to the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, also known as BMKG, icing may have damaged the plane's engine, ultimately causing it to stall out and then crash to the sea below it. As it stands now, actually recovering bodies and wreckage has been a difficult task because of driving, monsoon-like rains and 12-foot waves in the search area. Searchers are finding what they need to, but it has been a slower process than officials would like. We also learned this past weekend that Flight 8501 never should have been in the air on Sunday morning. AirAsia is permitted to run the Surabaya-Singapore route four days a week each week, but Sunday is not an approved day. The carrier is now being investigated because of this and could ultimately be grounded for breaking this rule. The flight's black box, which contains the cockpit voice recorder as well as the flight data recorder, has yet to be discovered.

  • 'Love & Hip Hop NYC's' Tahiry Jose Still Recovering from NYFW Attack

    Love & Hip Hop NYC returned to VH1 a few weeks ago with Tahiry Jose still in the mix. She has dated Joe Budden on and off for years and while they are currently off, that doesn't mean that Jose has been drama-free. She was physically attacked last September and just this past week her assailant, Charles Suggs got off pretty easy in a Manhattan court room.

  • Michael Jackson's Thriller Re-Enters Hot 100

    The Billboard Hot 100 got a retro shake up this week. Likely due to the absolute spookiest day of the year that is Halloween, Michael Jackson's "Thriller," which is now heavily tied in with the holiday, reentered into the charts at No. 42 this week.
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