REDONDO BEACH, Calif. — Chyna, the WWE star who in the 1990s became one of the best-known and most-popular female professional wrestlers in history, has died, authorities said. Police in Southern California said they were responding to a 911 call from a friend of former WWE wrestler Chyna when they found her dead in her Redondo Beach apartment. A friend had gone Wednesday to check on Chyna, whose real name is Joan Marie Laurer, after she had failed to answer her phone for a few days, Redondo Beach police said in a statement. The friend told the 911 operator that Laurer wasn't breathing. The 46-year-old Laurer was dead when officers arrived, police said. Several media outlets report that she was 45. Neither police nor coroner's officials have released any cause ...
A 69-year-old man shot dead his adult son in Los Angeles this week because his son was gay, according to prosecutors. Shehada Khalil Issa was charged with premeditated murder. He had previously threatened to kill his son, Amir Issa, 29, because he was gay, according to Los Angeles County prosecutors. Police responded to a 911 call Tuesday and arrived at the family home in the North Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles. Officers found the body of the son outside their home and his mother's body inside the home. Prosecutors allege that the elder Issa fired a shotgun that killed his son. The LAPD is still investigating what happened to the victim's mother, who was not identified. Investigators told the Los Angeles Daily News Issa had initially said he found his dead wife in the bathroom of their house and had shot his son in self-defense after being threatened with a knife. Later, Issa made "incriminating statements" and was subsequently charged with mu...
An artist's rendering of 55 Cancri-e. Photo: Getty Images Hell has an address: 55 Cancri-e is the first alien planet to have some of its surface features directly observed. And it’s no tropical paradise. For some time 55 Cancri-e has been considered “strange.” Some felt it may be made of diamond. Others suggested it was covered in exotic fluids. So an international team of astronomers headed up by the University of Cambridge has examined data captured by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope about this 40 light-year-distant “super-Earth.” Orbiting a sun-like star in the constellation Cancer, the astronomers observed the rocky planet through several entire orbits — each just 18 hours. What they found is a world of extremes. The planet is tidal-locked, meaning one face is permanently pointing toward the star. This face is a sea of molten lava, with a surface temperature of 2,400 degrees C (4,352 F). The “dark side” is barely better. It’s s...
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