Rap-reggae star Sean Kingston was in stable but critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on Monday, after crashing a Jet Ski into a Miami Beach bridge, his publicist said.
Kingston, 21, and a female passenger were injured when the watercraft he was operating hit the Palm Island Bridge around 6 p.m. Sunday, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino said. The woman's name and medical condition were not disclosed.
The Miami Herald reported that a passing boater saw the accident and took the two onboard his vessel. Kingston was initially treated in the hospital's trauma unit and transferred to intensive care after his condition stabilized. The precise nature of the injuries were not reported.
Authorities are investigating the crash, and "nothing at this point would indicate that alcohol played a role," Pino said.
"I don't know exactly what caused the accident. That's something that we're going to be looking into," Pino said. "Our investigators are trying to interview the young lady that was sitting as a passenger, and we're also trying to gather information from witnesses that may have been in the area."
Kingston (real name: Kisean Anderson) is best known for the 2007 single "Beautiful Girls." He toured with Justin Bieber last year and collaborated with the teen heartthrob on the single "Eenie Meenie." He has also toured with Gwen Stefani and Beyonce. Bieber reacted to news of the
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accident Sunday with a Twitter post: "@seankingston in my prayers tonight. a true friend and big bro. Please keep him in your prayers tonight as well."
HACKERS SPREAD FALSE TUPAC RUMOR: The PBS website briefly carried a fake story claiming that famed rapper Tupac Shakur was alive and living in New Zealand after a group of hackers, apparently upset about a PBS "Frontline" story about WikiLeaks, took over the organization's computer systems Saturday night, the New York Times reported.
In addition to posting the fake news story, the group, which identified itself on Twitter as @LulzSec, or The Lulz Boat, began posting passwords and email addresses of people from a wide range of news organizations and other information belonging to PBS.
Comments posted by LulzSec indicated that the group was unhappy with a "Frontline" program about WikiLeaks that recently aired on PBS. The group began posting messages on Twitter around midnight Sunday: "What's wrong with @PBS, how come all of its servers are rooted? How come their database is seized? Why are passwords cracked?" That message was following by a succession of follow-up posts with links to lists of passwords and other data.
Shortly afterward, the Times reported, it appeared that PBS was aware of the intrusion and the news organization posted statements acknowledging the hack, and pointing out that the story about Tupac Shakur was a fake.
A "PBS NewsHour" employee, Teresa Gorman, replied to questions Sunday on the Twitter site, noting that the story about the rapper, who died in Las Vegas in 1996, was fake.
The fake story was posted at 11:30 p.m. Saturday on the "PBS NewsHour" news blog, "The Rundown."
The group has attacked other media organizations in the past month, according to Secure Business Intelligence, including Fox News and the "X-Factor" television show.
'HANGOVER' GIVES HOLLYWOOD A REASON TO PARTY: "The Hangover Part II" grossed a record-breaking $137.4 million in its five-day launch at the domestic box office over the weekend, fueling the best Memorial Day weekend box office returns on record, the Hollywood Reporter says.
The film's opening was the best ever for a comedy, R-rated or otherwise.
The 3-D animated "Kung Fu Panda 2" grossed $67 million in its first five days, according the Hollywood Reporter, but only 45 percent of the gross came from 3-D screens, indicating that moviegoers are tiring of the now-ubiquitous format.
Overall, the domestic weekend box-office take was expected to surpass $270 million, easily beating the $254 million earned in 2007.
LOVE AND MARRIAGE: Tony Romo's days of romancing Hollywood A-listers are over (we hope). The Dallas Cowboys quarterback married Candice Crawford, younger sister of actor Chace Crawford, Saturday night in Dallas. The couple said "I do" in front of 600 guests, including R&B singer Ashanti and Kim Kardashian's ex-beau Miles Austin, a receiver with the Cowboys.
Romo, 31, and Crawford, 24, began dating in the summer of 2009 and were engaged in December 2010. Crawford is a former beauty queen and Dallas-area news TV personality. Romo dated Jessica Simpson for nearly two years until he infamously dumped her the night before her 29th birthday. He's also dated Carrie Underwood and Sophia Bush.
Actress and former "Clean House" cast member Niecy Nash married electrical engineer Jay Tucker on Saturday in an outdoor afternoon ceremony at the Church Estate Vineyard in Malibu, People magazine's website reported. It's the second marriage for Nash.
1859: The Big Ben clock tower in London went into operation, chiming for the first time.
1970: A magnitude 7.9 earthquake in Peru claimed an estimated 20,000 lives.
1985: At least 88 people were killed, more than 1,000 injured, as more than 40 tornadoes swept through parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Ontario, Canada, during an eight-hour period.
2001: Veteran FBI agent Robert Hanssen pleaded not guilty to charges of spying for Moscow. (He later changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.) Actress and TV personality Arlene Francis died in San Francisco at age 93.
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