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LOS ANGELES — The name of the late actor Corey Haim was found on a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said Friday was obtained through a major drug ring.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office said records of the prescription in the name of the former teen heartthrob were found during an investigation of the ring that illegally obtained prescription pads and used the stolen identities of doctors to fill them out.

“Corey Haim’s death is yet another tragedy linked to the growing problem of prescription drug abuse,” Brown said in a written statement. “This problem is increasingly linked to criminal organizations, like the illegal and massive prescription drug ring under investigation.”

Los Angeles County coroner’s officials, however, said they have not yet determined what killed the 38-year-old Haim on Wednesday.

State law enforcement authorities said they were investigating the drug ring and how the name of Haim, who battled addiction for years, appeared on the prescription.

Javier Salaiz, an investigator with the state attorney general’s office, said authorities have not yet confirmed that Haim actually filled the prescription or if someone was using his name to acquire the prescription.

However, a person familiar with the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case is ongoing said Haim may have been doctor shopping.

Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said four prescription drug bottles bearing the actor’s name were found in the apartment where he collapsed, but all those drugs had been provided by a doctor who had been treating the actor.

The coroner’s office has declined to state what medications were discovered, but said no illegal drugs were found.inter said no determination had been made about Haim’s cause of death, and toxicology tests would not be available for at least a month.

He said he had not been contacted by the attorney general’s office.

“It surprises me that Jerry Brown would come out and give a cause of death,” he said.

Brown said later in an interview that he didn’t know what killed Haim.

The illegal prescription was for the powerful painkiller OxyContin, he said.

“This is a growing and dangerous problem,” Brown said.

Christine Gasparac, a spokeswoman for Brown, said the prescription was found through the state’s computer database that tracks prescriptions that are filled.

Investigators believe the ring either sells the pads on the street to addicts or to people who then fill out the forms and obtain the drugs for illegal distribution.

Doctors whose names are on the form usually aren’t aware that their identity is being used illegally.

So far, authorities have uncovered up to 5,000 fraudulent prescriptions linked to the fraud ring in Southern California.

Haim’s agent, Mark Heaslip, said his client’s medications were prescribed by an addiction specialist who was working with the actor. He said he thinks, based on what Haim’s mother has told him, the actor may have had an adverse reaction to the medication because he was ill.

“I don’t think Corey overdosed, not at all,” Heaslip said.

Authorities have said Haim was suffering from flulike symptoms in the days before his death.

Seattle-based Heaslip has served as Haim’s agent for 18 months but first met the actor, best known for his roles in the 1980s flicks “The Lost Boys” and “Lucas,” in November. He said Haim was poised for a comeback and showed no signs of addiction.

“He’s never given me a sign of that,” Heaslip said.

Plans are being completed for a public memorial for Haim in Los Angeles. The actor is expected to be buried at a private funeral in his native Canada, Heaslip said.

Brown’s office has made prescription drug abuse a priority. It worked with the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office to bring drug conspiracy charges against two doctors and the lawyer-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith.

Brown also has launched a probe of doctors whose names have come up during the investigation into the death of Michael Jackson.
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Amy Beck Pictures: The English and social sciences teacher, Amy Beck taught her student lover at David Starr Jordan Middle School. The student lover is 15-years-old. “She’s a well respected and loved teacher. We’re all shocked,” school Principal Sharon Cuseo told local media. The 33-year-old instructor, who has been accused with five counts of engaging in sexual intercourse with a individual under 16, came along briefly in court Wednesday prior to returning to jail. She is scheduled to be arraigned March 25 and faces up as much as 7 years in prison house if convicted.

As she sits in jail, creating no attempt to post her $175,000 bond, according to her lawyer, school functionaries say they are as bedazed by the disclosure as law were. Beck, who Quesada said is hooked up with and the parent of three children, had taught school for many years in the Los Angeles suburban area that is home to such main studios as Walt Disney and Warner Bros. She was instructing English and social science atDavid Starr Jordan Middle School till last week when she suddenly quit. Soumakian said she told school officials she was moving out of country.

MI won, Yousuf Pathan 100 Fastest Century!

Match Between Mumbai Indians Vs Rajasthan Royals, Yousuf Pathan scored 100 runs in just 37 balls in a match against Mumbai Indians. This is the Fastest Century in the history of IPL! Indian Premier League 2010 has witnessed a blazing performance of Yousuf Pathan at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. He smashed the bowlers by hitting 9 fours and 8 sixers with the strike rate of 270.27. But, his team lost the match with 4 runs.

Mumbai Indians bowlers Amit Uniyal and Dimitri Mascarenhas took 2 wickets each in their 4 overs spells. Saurabh Tiwary and Ambati Rayudu’s half centuries madeMumbai Indians to pass the 200 runs mark. For the Royals, Paras Dogra is the only guy who scored 41 runs and gave good support to Yousuf Pathan who made 100 in 37 balls.Yusuf Pathan got the Royals close to what looked like a mammoth target at half stage. At the end,Mumbai with the tricks of Malinga win their first IPL match in season 3.

Rajasthan are almost a new side with all their additions and Shane Warne is hoping for big things from Jhunjhunwala. With Graeme Smith and Damien Martyn the side should finally have some stability at the top of the order and its the explosive Yousuf Pathan, who’s been in a six hitting frenzy in recent times, who could take this game away in an instant. Their bowling, which has always been their strength, now has Shaun Tait (is this a good or bad thing?) to join Munaf Patel and Warne as spearheads of the attack. It should be a closer game than you think, and I for one definitely don’t place the Royals as the underdogs.

Indian Premier League T20 Series 2010

Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals- Match 2

Played at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai, 13 March 2010
Mumbai Indians Innings R B 4s 6s SR
Sanath Jayasuriya lbw b Amit Uniyal 23 14 3 1 164.29
Sachin Tendulkar (C) lbw b Dimitri Mascarenhas 17 11 3 0 154.55
Aditya tare (W)
c S Warne b D Mascarenhas
23 13 3 1 176.92
Sauarbh Tiwary
c Naman Ojha b Shaun Tait
53 33 4 2 160.61
Ambati Rayudu c Paras Dogra b Amit Uniyal 55 33 6 2 166.67
Rajagopal Sathish run out (Naman Ojha) 6 5 1 0 120.00
Harbhajan Singh retired hurt 8 6 1 0 133.33
Ryan McLaren Not Out 11 5 2 0 220.00
Zaheer Khan Not Out 0 0 0 0 0
Ali Murtaza
Extras (b 0,lb 3,w 13, nb 0) 16
Total (6 wickets; 20 overs) 212 (10.60 runs per over)

Fall of Wickets (Mumbai Indians):

1. 38/1 (3.3 ov) Sanath Jayasuriya, 2. 69/2 (6.1 ov) Sachin Tendulkar, 3. 70/3 (6.3 ov) Aditya Tare, 4. 180/4 (16.6 ov) Ambati Rayudu, 5. 191/5 (17.6 ov) Saurabh Tiwary, 6. 192/6 (18.2 ov) Rajagopal Sathish
Bowling O M R W Econ
Dimitri Mascarenhas 4 0 34 2 8.50
Shaun Tait 4 0 46 1 11.50 (w 6)
Kamran Khan 1 0 10 0 10.00
Amit Uniyal 4 0 41 2 10.25 (w 2)
Shane Warne 3 0 29 0 9.67 (w 1)
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala 2 0 27 0 13.50
Yusuf Pathan 2 0 22 0 11.00

Power Play: 1-6

Toss – Mumbai Indian won the toss and elected to BAt first.

:Madonna is all set to launch her own range of clothes to bring her fashion ideas to people.

The 51-year-old singer is creating the range named MG Icon in a joint venture with her manager Guy Oseary and Iconix, reported Contactmusic.

“Joining forces with Iconix to bring my fashion ideas to consumers is very exciting for me. I look forward to working closely with Neil Cole of Iconix and his team to create and translate my vision and ideas for MG Icon,” the singer said in a statement.

The brand’s first project will be named after Madonna’s hit ‘Material Girl’ and will be a junior range with items costing between USD 12 and USD 40.

Sajid Nadiadwala is the first film producer to actually take the much-needed step against stars putting up information about under-production films on social networking websites.

This especially applies to one microblogging site, which according to one producer, is the “souten of all confidentiality clauses in film contracts.”

While other producers and directors have only been talking about it, Sajid Nadiadwala has belled the cat. He has contractually forbidden his cast and crew from going on anysocial networking site to write about his new film Anjaana Anjaani.

This critical decision had to be taken after Nadiadwala saw a constant inflow of pictures and information being put up on the said site. Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor are both on the site. The former is especially active on the network.

Registration is under way for Maine’s best-known running race.

Online registration for the general public began Saturday morning for people interested in running in this summer’s TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10-kilometer race in Cape Elizabeth. Cape Elizabeth residents were allowed to register beginning Friday.

The 6,000 openings in the 2009 race were filled online in less than two hours last year.

As part of this year’s process, a lottery has been added for those who don’t secure a spot through the online registration.

The race, founded by Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson, began in 1998 with 3,000 runners. Since then, the field has grown to 7,000. This year’s race is Aug. 7.
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ABC News anchor Kate Snow is defecting to NBC News, where she will be a correspondent for “Dateline,” NBC announced Friday.

Since 2004, Snow has co-anchored the weekend edition of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” a position viewed as a steppingstone to an assignment on the weekday edition of the morning show. But when “GMA” configured its team late last year after the departure of Diane Sawyer, the job of news anchor went to Juju Chang.

“She’s the whole package,” “Dateline” executive producer David Corvo said of Snow in a statement. “She can cover breaking news, she can interview, she can write, and I’m happy she’ll be doing all that at ‘Dateline.’ ”

Snow joined ABC in 2003 from CNN and covered the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns for the network.
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Pacquiao vs Clottey : The fan off, boxing turns begin March 13th with the confrontation between Texas shooting, (50-3-2, 38KO) and Joshua Clottey (35-3, 20KO) of the title of World Boxing Organization welterweight.
For the more experienced fan and boxing are already a courtesy call on some of the battles a nice broadcast ESPN ’s’ Friday Night Fights’, the upper level of the Golden Boy Promotions, a monthly series, and the second weekend of March serves only as the largest in the battle earlier this year already active.
In both cases, Pacquiao and Clottey will do battle in the Dallas Cowboys in the newly established stadium in front of 40,000 plus fans watched closely by millions around the world on pay-per-view.
Battle is the first of two big games in the welterweight within seven weeks, and Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley is expected to hook up on May 1 in Las Vegas.
Much has been written on the Clottey / Pacquiao match, with the main themes of Pacquiao being the case why not take a test to make sure he did not use the implement, and Clottey in good condition, and the reason is that it is fighting Pacquiao?
Carried out on this issue, the fact remains this: The allegations stem from the mouth of Floyd Mayweather Sr., and Golden Boy Promotions Group allegedly hopped on the plane (Richard Schaefer, Oscar De La Hoya (;), Floyd Mayweather, expressed doubts and made an invitation to test a technique that halted the Olympic games proposed between him and Pacquiao. (kind of reminds you of that game ‘telephone’, is not it?) Pacquiao has since filed a defamation lawsuit and there has not yet been any physical evidence linking Pacquiao drugs to improve performance.
On Clottey, I wrote that he was opposed to the lowest Pacquiao, seem designed specifically to fight Pacquiao in the sense that Clottey fading late in the fighting. Critics attribute only Clottey seem to give is that he never stopped at the Battle of professional, and that it is a great welterweight. (Hey, which is still more than a single bullet, giving the Buster Douglas)
Battle at the end of this week and will begin the first of two fights to be held in major league sports setting. Although the squared circle has been displayed in the Staples Center in Los Angeles, 20,000 fans strong, the highest rank promoter Bob Arum has the biggest stadiums in his eyes, and Buck / Clottey will be the first game of boxing in the new stadium the Cowboys in Texas, and It is expected to draw 40,000 or more, and double the amount of fans at Staples Center or MGM Grand.
In June, and will pit him Arum fighter Miguel Cotto in the pre-Puerto Rican day parade against Yuri Foreman new Yankee Stadium in New York.
In less than two months, and the highest level of achievement to live the fight to the major sports from Dallas to New York, and to prevent a crowd of people living in the Bronx, will be Arum made 80,000 plus fans with an unforgettable night.
Regardless of whether the battle at the end of this week will not be able to compete or not, it would amount to what is hopefully a new era in boxing: boxing under the title ‘the great and lights’.
Alexander is well on his way to the ‘Great’
It was amazing to see how Devon Alexander performed well at the end of last week against Juan Urango.
I was sitting in the front row at the track in the recent ‘Friday Night Fights’ show and talk with some of the book on the battles ahead, and came up to Alexander. Writer I was talking to thought Urango will take, but I told him: ‘I do not know, Alexander is a pretty talented’.
Only then, a member of the crew of ESPN not to be named, who was listening to our conversation turned around and said: “Urango win in that battle.” I told him the same thing, and I thought Alexander just can not beat Urango, but perhaps prevent it.
Both looked at me like I just went ten rounds with the late Arturo Gatti had to say something, even if you can not really believe.
I think that as well!
Alexander fought a nice battle from beginning to scratch early on to be more than Urango unknown assailant, and save the firm a major blow, which was very effective throughout, and the slide in danger and landing a powerful punch led to the end of the night.
Was the jewel in the battle and one that Alexander and company can look back and to be proud of for some time.
Alexander is the goods. He proved that he could be able to compete against elite competition, and it can not close the show.Although the media and fans are clamoring for Devon Alexander / Timothy Bradley match-up, and I expect Alexander to take on Zab Judah.
Judah stuck his nose in business Alaa ‘Shane Mosley, and said to the crowd and the camera that “everyone knows who is the king of St. Louis”, referring to the victory over Cory Spinks. Alexander’s right that Judas is the past, and he was present, but I think Alexander meadows, I knew, the man with a hair larger than life, multi-mini national flags, and the creation of the Battle of Alexander Muscat before facing Bradley.
It is smart business to transport the king as well as Alexander, it provides a decent pay day for the next Alexander, a chance to fight in front of his hometown, and defend his titles in lower risk, higher reward match against veteran faded in Judah, and lets face it, it will shift Bradley is still there be good because, there is no line of light welterweights hope against Bradley.
Through the eyes of returns next week!

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Diane Schuler : Do you remember my mother, who drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway last week and caused an accident that killed eight people? Also, after her autopsy, it is found that she was very drunk during the time of the accident. Diane Schuler led the South in traffic after the 1.7-mile north, before crashing face-to-face in an SUV. Authorities said they were 0.19 – blood alcohol content level and high levels of THC, the chemical found in marijuana, and have in the system. A bottle of vodka was found in her car.

The accident caused Schuler by driving drunk, killing 2-year-old daughter, Irene; with three daughters, his sister Rose Garden, Emma Hance, 8, Allison Hance, 7, and Kate and Hance, 5; Yonkers and three men in the SUV, Guy Bastardi (49 years) and his father, Bastardi Michael (81 years) and their friend, Daniel Longo, 74. The 5-year-old son, Schuler, Brian, and survived the accident.Do you remember my mother, who drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway last week and caused an accident that killed eight people? Also, after her autopsy, it is found that she was very drunk duringthe time of the accident. Diane Schuler led the South in traffic after the 1.7-mile north, before crashing face-to-face in an SUV. Authorities said they were 0.19 – blood alcohol content level and high levels of THC, the chemical found in marijuana, and have in the system.A bottle of vodka was found in her car.

The accident caused Schuler by driving drunk, killing 2-year-old daughter, Irene; with three daughters, his sister Rose Garden, Emma Hance, 8, Allison Hance, 7, and Kate and Hance, 5; Yonkers and three men in the SUV, Guy Bastardi (49 years) and his father, Bastardi Michael (81 years) and their friend, Daniel Longo, 74. The 5-year-old son, Schuler, Brian, and survived the accident.

The latest music video of Lady Gaga was shown last time on E! News. After the show, people are now trying to read between the lines and started to talk about the deeper meanings of the lyrics and the video as well.

The eccentric singer told in an exclusive interview with E! News that she always have hidden messages in her every song. But this is her way to convey to the listeners what should be the ideas that must be included when it comes to making a pop music video.

Everybody knows for a fact that pop music videos are composed of several factors. This includes several costume changes for a song that would last for a few minutes, choreographed dances, and ludicrous way of editing. But what sets the Telephone apart from the other pop music videos?

She considers the Paparazzi video have that high art quality which is also found in the Telephone. The song alone has a shallow meaning but you would look for a deeper sense when you see the video. It was directed by Jonas Akerlund. But she got the full support of Quentin Tarantino who also wrote and directed the film called Inglourious Basterds in 2009.