Washington: A passenger was booted off an American Airlines flight en route from Los Angeles to New York Monday when she would not stop singing Whitney Houston's hit 'I Will Always Love You'.
The plane's pilot made an unscheduled stop in Kansas City about halfway through the six-hour flight after passengers and crew complained about the woman's incessant singing.
American Airlines spokesman Joe McBride told local Kansas City KCTV that the woman's behaviour was 'disruptive' and that she was removed from the aircraft for "interfering with the flight crew".
Because the woman would not stop singing the Houston hit, the pilot declared an emergency and requested clearance for an emergency landing at the Kansas City airport, McBride added....
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10:59 AM, Dec 29, 2012
Los Angeles: Making a TV reality show may not be the most obvious way to cope with the sudden death of a loved one, but most families don't count an icon like Whitney Houston among their relatives. Less than a year after the 'I Will Always Love You' singer drowned accidentally in a hotel bath tub after taking cocaine, Houston's teen daughter, her mother, brother and sister-in-law share with the...
12:46 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Los Angeles: The BET Awards on Sunday split top honors among several artists, including Beyonce Knowles and Chris Brown, in a telecast filled with lively performances and an emotional tribute to late singer Whitney Houston. Beyonce was named best female R&B artist, while Brown, who performed his hit single Turn Up the Music from his new album Fortune, earned the title best male artist. Rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West won...
12:12 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Beverly Hills: Police have closed their investigation into Whitney Houston's death without finding evidence to suggest it was anything other than an accidental drowning, investigators have announced. The Beverly Hills Police Department did not release a detailed report on the case, but Lt Mark Rosen yesterday said the conclusion came after detectives reviewed the complete findings of the coroner's office. Coroner's officials ruled Houston drowned accidentally at the Beverly Hilton...
12:11 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Los Angeles: Hollywood star Kevin Costner says Princess Diana was keen on being a part of the sequel to Whitney Houston starrer film 'Bodyguard'. Costner, 57, helped give singer Houston her big screen break with the 1992 film and had high hopes of making a film star out of the Princess of Wales, reported US magazine. "Diana and I had been talking about doing Bodyguard 2. I told her I...
04:32 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Los Angeles: Whitney Houston drowned in a hot bathtub in a Beverly Hills hotel room with cocaine in her system and white powder nearby, a final coroner's report revealed on Wednesday. Detectives found white powdery substances, a rolled-up piece of paper, a small spoon and a mirror in the bathroom shortly after Houston's naked body was found face down in the bathtub on February 11, the 40-page Los Angeles County...
03:42 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: The much awaited trailer of late Whitney Houston's last film 'Sparkle' is out. Whitney Houston, Jordin Sparks, Derek Luke, Mike Epps and Carmen Ejogo play the lead roles in the film. Whitney Houston will be seen as a mother of three girls, who form a music band. The film tracks their tryst with fame and drug addiction. Directed by Salim Akil, 'Sparkle' is a remake of the 1976...
12:20 PM, Apr 03, 2012
London: Soul singer Whitney Houston was reportedly planning to remarry Bobby Brown in a small ceremony with just their daughter, Bobbi Kristina, present. The 48-year-old singer, who died in a hotel suite on February 11, had apparently wanted to reunite with her former husband of 14 years, reported Sun online. Author Derrick Handspike, who wrote a book about Bobby, claims the pair got back together just weeks before her death...
12:15 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Los Angeles: Whitney Houston was a chronic cocaine user who had the drug in her system when she drowned in a hotel bathtub, coroner's officials said Thursday after releasing autopsy findings that also noted heart disease contributed to her death. The disclosure ended weeks of speculation about what killed the Grammy-winning singer on Feb. 11 on the eve of the Grammy Awards. Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of...
09:27 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Here's to "The Voice", Whitney Houston, a final goodbye to the singer who mesmerised us with her stirring love songs and vibrant dance tunes during a 30-year career that peaked with her 1992 signature hit "I Will Always Love You" and paved the way for a generation of singers that followed her. ...
06:27 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Newark: Whitney Houston's family and friends paid their last respects at her funeral, held in her childhood church in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday evening, a week after the sudden death of the singer whose spectacular voice and best-selling albums made her one of biggest pop stars of her era. Houston, who died in a Beverly Hills hotel room last week, recorded stirring love songs and vibrant dance tunes during...
11:29 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Newark, NJ: To the world, Whitney Houston was the pop queen with the perfect voice, the dazzling diva with regal beauty, a troubled superstar suffering from addiction and, finally, another victim of the dark side of fame. To her family and friends, she was just 'Nippy'. A nickname given to Houston when she was a child, it stuck with her through adulthood and, later, would become the name of one...
01:31 PM, Feb 18, 2012
New York: They won't be there in person, but singer Whitney Houston's millions of fans worldwide will be able to share in her homecoming service Saturday as they watch her private funeral on the Internet. It will provide a much-needed connection for fans who have lacked a formal place to eulogize Houston, one of the world's best-selling artists who died in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday at the age of...
03:45 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Los Angeles: It's become standard-operating procedure when a celebrity dies too young - investigators immediately go looking through their nightstand and medicine cabinet. That effort is well under way in the death of Whitney Houston, with investigators saying Wednesday they have subpoenaed records from the singer's doctors and pharmacies who dispensed medication found in her hotel room. The inquiries are routine in virtually all death investigations, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed...
12:05 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Los Angeles: Pop star Whitney Houston was found "underwater and apparently unconscious" when she was discovered in a Beverly Hills hotel room bathtub, police said on Tuesday. Beverly Hills Police said in a written statement that they could not yet speculate on the cause of Houston's death. "She was underwater and apparently unconscious," Beverly Hills police said in the statement. "Ms Houston was pulled from the tub by members of...
08:00 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood celebrities and singers expressed grief over the sudden demise of legendary singer Whitney Houston, terming it as "a great loss" to the music industry. Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Akshay Kumar and Bipasha Basu took to Twitter to remember the 'I Will Always Love You' singer. Priyanka, who will be attending the Grammy Awards for the first time tonight, said, "LA bound... the Grammys will be sad... Such...
01:18 PM, Feb 13, 2012
