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Salma Hayek & François-Henri Pinault wedding cost $3 million-$3.5 million, Yes, the amount is excessive. But IS IT when your husband-to-be is a billionaire? Who’s looking at price tags when you have all those zeros at the end of your bank account statement? Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault are planning a spring wedding and reports are claiming that they couple is spending an estimated $3.5 million. Sources tell the National Enquirer that the 46-year-old French boss of fashion houses Gucci, Yves St. Laurent and Balenciaga will dig deep for a five-day-long wedding ceremony in St. Tropez, France. "It took Francois over a year to get Salma to agree to marry him, and he doesn’t want to spare any expense. Francois basically gave her the key to the vault and said, ‘Go wild.’" Imagine someone handing you a credit card and telling you to "Go Wild". I don’t know what I would do. So dangerous! The tabloid claims the pair will fly their friends in on private jets; put...

Plane Crashes Near L.A., Two small airplanes with a combined four people aboard collided in midair over the Southern California mountains, sending one crashing into a rocky ridge and killing its pilot while the second was able to maneuver a belly-flop landing on the fairway of a nearby golf course, officials said. Rescuers searched through the wreckage of the plane that crashed and sparked a fire in rocky terrain in Calabasas on Monday and found a body that was believed to be the only person aboard, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. Firefighters responding to a report of a small wildfire at about 2 p.m. spotted the aircraft debris, put out the fire and began a search for survivors, county fire Inspector Quvondo Johnson said. The plane had taken off from Santa Monica Airport in order to test its engine. Three people on the plane that landed on a fairway while stunned golfers looked on had minor injuries. One was hospitalized after complaining of back pain. ...

Aleksandra Nikolic and Andrey Melnichenko wedding cost $3.6 million,  When the Russian billionaire married his former Miss Yugoslavia in 2005 a regular wedding singer was obviously not good enough. Instead singers Christina Aguilera and Whitney Houston were flown in by private jet and each paid $3.6 million (£2.2 million) to perform at the wedding party. Forbes magazine reported that the wedding was so lavish that rumours were circulating that Melnichenko had a Russian chapel dismantled, shipped and rebuilt in the Cote d’Azur where the wedding took place.

Josh Nunes Quarterback, The bench press started like every other one Josh Nunes had done throughout his Stanford career. As he lifted the weight above his chest, the former starting quarterback thought he felt his right shoulder pop. The weight crashed down violently on his upper body, and his spotter quickly pulled the bar off. Remarkably, Nunes gathered himself enough to sit up. He looked down and, for a moment, figured he’d be fine — until he saw a growing gap between his right chest muscle and the bone in his right shoulder. “It was pretty gnarly,” Nunes said. The incident completely tore off his right chest muscle in February, sidelined him for all of spring practices and led to his decision to officially retire from football Monday, ending a collegiate career filled with dramatic highs and devastating setbacks. “It’s kind of a tough way to go out,” Nunes said, disclosing details of his injury for the first time in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “Definitely faced a l...

Janos Starker dies,  Grammy Award-winning cellist Janos Starker has died after months of declining health. He was 88. Alain Barker, a spokesman for the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, said Starker died Sunday at his Bloomington home in the presence of family members. Barker said a family representative confirmed the death. Starker won a 1997 Grammy Award for best instrumental solo performance for a recording of Bach cello suites. Starker made his professional debut at 14. He immigrated to the US in 1948 and played for the Dallas Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chicago Symphony before joining Indiana University in 1958. He was born to Jewish parents in Budapest on July 5, 1924, and spent three months in Nazi concentration camps. Survivors include his wife, Rae, and two daughters.

Female DNA On Bomb, On Monday, federal investigators disclosed that a bit of female DNA was found on a fragment of at least one of the pressure-cooker bombs that killed three people and wounded more than 200 others at the Boston Marathon. Also on Monday, the FBI visited suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow, Katherine Russell, to collect a DNA sample to see if it matches the material found on the bomb. Russell, 24, has been staying at her parents' home in Rhode Island since her husband's death, and the focus on her "is part of the wider effort by the FBI to determine who else may have played a role aiding the bombers," say Michael S. Schmidt and Serge F. Kovaleski in The New York Times. The authorities are looking at a range of possibilities, two senior law enforcement officials said, including that she could have — wittingly or unwittingly — destroyed evidence, helped the bombers evade capture, or even played a role in planning the attacks.... While the auth...

Peeping Toms Fall Through Ceiling, A pair of Georgia men seeking to secretly ogle some undressed women crashed through the ceiling of a movie theater restroom in a peeping Tom operation gone awry, police charge. The duo was arrested late Sunday night after they apparently went into the men’s bathroom at the Venture Cinema 12 in Duluth and climbed up into the ceiling. From there, the men navigated to the area above the nearby women’s restroom, where they allegedly spent time “invading the privacy” of female victims, according to arrest warrants. The suspects’s peeping concluded, however, when they tumbled through the bathroom’s drop ceiling, which apparently was not designed to hold the weight of two adult men. The pair’s plummet ended with what was likely a painful convergence of peeper with porcelain and partition. Gwinnett County Police Department officers busted relatives Eduard Alexander Kovynev, 27, and Eduard Petrovich Kovynev, 26, on peeping Tom, criminal damage to property, and...