Layzie Bone injured while shooting video
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) – Grammy Award-winning rapper Layzie Bone of the group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony suffered an eye injury while shooting a video for his debut solo album north of Los Angeles.
Layzie Bone, whose real name is Steven Howse, suffered a quarter-inch scratch on the pupil of his right eye Friday during production of the video
A makeup artist was spraying the rapper with a blend of liquids that create the illusion of sweat when the injury happened, Doby said. It was unclear whether an actor accidentally scratched Howse’s eye or if the rapper had something in his eye that became irritated by the special effects materials.
“P-Diddy” Combs arrested in Miami
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Rapper Sean Combs was arrested Saturday and charged with driving with a suspended license after police pulled him over while he was riding a scooter along Ocean Drive, a South Beach strip.
Police pulled Combs over about 6 p.m. for making an illegal lane change, said Miami Beach Police Sgt. Peter Bitume. A driver’s license check showed Combs’ license was suspended, so he was arrested and released 20 minutes later after he signed a promise to appear in court, Bitume said.
The charge is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500 and possibly jail time,
Combs has since announced that he’s changing his stage name from Puff Daddy to P. Diddy when he releases his next album.
Todd Bridges saves paraplegic
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Todd Bridges, the once-troubled actor who played Willis on the TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” was credited Friday with saving the life of a paraplegic woman whose wheelchair rolled into a lake.
Stella Kline said the electric wheelchair lurched into the Balboa Park Lake in the San Fernando Valley on Thursday after her fishing line caught on the chair’s controls. When it tipped over in 3 feet of water, she was trapped underneath. Bridges, whose run-ins with the law made him a tabloid favorite in the mid-’80s and ’90s, was fishing a few feet away with his brother James, 40. Both jumped in to help.
Bridges, 35, who starred with Gary Coleman in the sitcom, 1978-1986, was nonchalant.
Jay-Z arrested near manhattan nightclub
NEW YORK (AP) – Grammy-winning rapper Jay-Z and three other men were arrested early last Friday outside a Manhattan nightclub and held on weapons charges after a plainclothes officer saw one of the men take a loaded handgun from the rapper’s vehicle, police said.
The rapper, whose real name is Shawn Carter, was arraigned Friday night on charges stemming from an arrest outside a nightclub where police said they saw a member of his entourage with a loaded handgun in his waistband. The rapper posted $10,000 bail..
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Mya helps teens with self-esteem
CHICAGO (AP) – R&B singer Mya is known for her petite figure and good looks. But the 21-year-old knows many girls are unsure of themselves. That’s why she’s worked for the past three years with Teen Esteem, a group that tries to boost the self-esteem of young women.
“All females especially – even males today for that matter – deal with insecurity about body image and the way one looks,” Mya told AP Radio during a visit to a Chicago middle school Tuesday. “Unfortunately, our society focuses a lot on what we look like instead of our skill.”
Mya, whose “Case of the Ex (Watcha Gonna Do)” was a recent top-five Billboard hit, said many girls she works with have negative feelings about their bodies.
Juvenile upsetting his new neighbors
MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) – Juvenile, famous for his raunchy song “Back That Thang Up,” is angering his neighbors because he won’t back his tour bus out of the neighborhood.
Residents of the exclusive Woodville neighborhood where the rapper owns a home are seeking a court order to force him to move the bus he allegedly leaves parked and running on a narrow street in the gated community.
They say parking the bus and a fleet of sports cars and four-wheel-drive vehicles breaks strict community rules. Juvenile was not available for comment.
Last year, the rapper, whose real name is Terius Gray, was found guilty of several misdemeanors after chasing five strippers down a street with an ice pick after they let a tub overflow in his house. He was arrested in Florida last month for allegedly smashing a champagne bottle over a man’s head and grabbing a police officer.
