Afternoon Briefs - Your afternoon quickie
Arnold Schwarzenegger underwent surgery today on his broken leg, which he suffered while skiing in Sun Valley Idaho.The surgery lasted 90-minutes. Cables and screws were used to wire the broken bone back together.
"Following the surgery, the governor was awake, alert and talking in the recovery room," said Dr. Kevin Ehrhart, who performed the operation at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica.
James Brown's personal manager, Charles Bobbit, was at his bedside when the performer passed. "The most difficult thing is for me to stand here without him. We were a team." Bobbit said that Brown told him, "I'm going away tonight." Then he took three long, quiet breaths, and closed his eyes. Frank Copsidas, Brown's agent, said that, "It appears what happened is that he did die of a heart attack as a result of his pneumonia."
Carl Blaze, the 30-year old New York DJ who had been shot 13 times earlier this month died Saturday. Blaze was a DJ for hip-hop and R&B radio station Power 105.1 FM. The perpetrator also ripped his $20,000 necklace from his neck. Blaze is survived by his two children, 1 and 7, with his wife, Yvonne.Spicy
Sources: CNN, ABC, Staten Island Live
