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Weekend wreck left actor, 71, with broken bones, other injuries

(AP) - Morgan Freeman was discharged today from the Tennessee hospital where the Oscar-winning actor was treated for broken bones and other injuries sustained in a weekend car crash in Mississippi, the AP reports. A spokeswoman for the hospital gave no details other than that Freeman had checked out. More»

(NEWSER) - Casey Aldridge, father of Jamie Lynn Spears’ daughter, was hospitalized following a car crash early yesterday, People reports. The 19-year-old was charged with careless driving after flipping his truck during a Louisiana bachelor party. Police found no evidence of drugs or alcohol, TMZ notes, adding that three of the five passengers—including Aldridge—were ejected from the truck. No one else was seriously injured. More»

Actor endangers 'Dark Knight Rises,' rep suggests

(NEWSER) - Could outspoken Morgan Freeman's politics endanger the success of The Dark Knight Rises? That’s what one Time Warner shareholder warned at the annual shareholders' meeting this week, noting that while Freeman was promoting Dolphin Tale last year, he took the opportunity to call the Tea Party racist during an appearance on Piers Morgan Tonight. A rep for shareholder David Ridenour brought up the incident and noted that filmgoers are less likely to see movies with stars who disagree with them politically, the Guardian reports. More»

Manhunt continues for Adam Mayes, two teenage girls

(AP) - The net widened today in the case of a Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls as authorities charged his wife and mother in connection with the abduction. As an intense manhunt for Adam Mayes and the two young girls continued, his wife, Teresa Mayes, and mother, Mary Mayes, were arraigned. Teresa Mayes, 30, was charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and Mary Mayes, 65, was charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping. More»

Cops race clock to save daughters from kidnapper

(NEWSER) - The bodies of a Tennessee mom and her teenage daughter have been discovered, and police are in a race against time to save two younger sisters snatched by the suspected killer. Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her 14-year-old daughter, Adrienne, were discovered dead behind the Mississippi home of murder suspect Adam Mayes, said local police, who did not reveal how they were killed. Bain's two younger daughters, 12-year-old Alexandria and Kyliyah, 8, are still missing. "Time is clearly of the essence," a former FBI agent told ABC News . "If we have the mother who is dead and one of her daughters, law enforcement has every reason to believe that the other two daughters are definitely in jeopardy." More»