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Published: June 24, 2009
Updated: 06/24/2009 12:40 am
■ Kate Gosselin says in divorce papers that her marriage to Jon is "irretrievably broken." The star of TLC's Jon & Kate Plus 8 filed for a no-fault divorce Monday in Montgomery County Court in Pennsylvania. She says in papers that she's willing to "negotiate a fair and reasonable" settlement with her husband of 10 years. The divorce filing was obtained yesterday by The Associated Press. Lawyers for the couple say that it contains boilerplate language common to all no-fault-divorce petitions filed in Pennsylvania. The TV series follows Jon and Kate Gosselin as they raise their eight young children, including 8-year-old twins and sextuplets who just turned 5.
■ Former Wilco guitarist Jay Bennett died of an overdose of a painkiller, a coroner said Tuesday, and authorities are viewing his death as accidental. Toxicology tests showed that Bennett, 45, died from an overdose of fentanyl, the Champaign County coroner, Duane Northrup, said in a brief news release. The drug is found in patches commonly prescribed to treat chronic pain. Bennett died May 24 after being found unresponsive in his home in Urbana, 110 miles southwest of Chicago. In a recent posting on his MySpace page, Bennett wrote that he was getting ready for hip-replacement surgery after years of pain.
■ Actress Daryl Hannah, NASA scientist James Hansen and more than two dozen other opponents of mountaintop-removal mining have been arrested during a protest in southern West Virginia. State police said that about 30 people were charged yesterday afternoon after they blocked State Route 3 near a Massey Energy subsidiary's coal-processing plant in Raleigh County. They were among several hundred protesters who held a rally outside an elementary school that sits about 300 feet away from the plant's coal-storage silo. After the rally, the crowd marched quietly to the plant and attempted to enter the property. They were blocked by several hundred coal miners chanting "Massey." Hannah, Hansen and 28 others then sat on the road and were arrested on misdemeanor charges of obstruction and impeding traffic.
■ The author of a health book has sued Elisabeth Hasselbeck, accusing the co-host of ABC's The View of plagiarism. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Massachusetts, alleges that Hasselbeck lifted "word for word" content from a book written by Susan Hassett, a self-published author on Cape Cod. Hasselbeck's book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, has appeared in the past month on several best-seller lists. Hassett said in the lawsuit that she sent Hasselbeck a personal note and copy of her Living With Celiac Disease book as a courtesy after Hasselbeck disclosed last year that she had the illness. Celiac disease is a digestive disorder associated with people who cannot digest gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye and barley.
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