Smush Parker, a former NBA point guard who was once the whipping boy of Kobe Bryant*, recently punched a 16-year old high school basketball player during a pick-up game in New York City, according to a report.

Gwyneth Paltrow put those split-from-Chris-Martin issues behind her for a night out with the girls this weekend as she met up with pals Stella McCartney, Chelsea Handler, film director Sam Taylor Wood, Gwen Stefani, Nicole Richie and Naomi Watts at Crossroads vegan restaurant in Hollywood.

A minor league baseball player is nursing a big bruise after he was hit in the face with a 90 mph fastball. Delino DeShields Jr. tweeted out some photos showing himself giving a thumbs up next to his severely swollen cheek. According to MBL.com, DeShields suffered a broken cheekbone.

A Long Island City cabdriver has been charged with stealing more than $28,000 in toll payments from the MTA, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. Rodolfo Sanchez, 69, allegedly crossed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge more than 3,000 times since 2012 without paying by “piggybacking” behind other cars, Brown said.

Your brain might be slowing down a bit sooner than you think. A new study suggests some people’s cognitive motor skills begin to slowly diminish after the age of 24. Canadian researchers gathered data from a group of more than 3000 players as they played a fast-moving computer game.

A pregnant mother-of-three with appendicitis died after a trainee surgeon mistakenly removed one of her healthy ovaries, a tribunal heard. Maria De Jesus, 32, of Wroxall Road, Dagenham, underwent the botched operation at Queen’s Hospital, Romford, after she was admitted with abdominal pains in October 2011. She died 19 days later after suffering a miscarriage.

Ogden-based Bank of Utah has been identified as the trustee for an American plane sighted this week in Iran. The plane was spotted Tuesday morning by a New York Times reporter. The sighting is significant because American enterprises are typically barred from doing business in Iran due to economic sanctions and diplomatic tension. However, the plane was in an open …

Loch Ness Monster found on Apple Maps? Scotland – Has the Loch Ness Monster finally been captured on satellite imagery? Some people who have taken a look at the area in question on Apple Maps seem to think so. According to the Daily Mail, two people noticed a strange image while looking at satellite images of Loch Ness on an …

A fan of Miss America Nina Davuluri got himself in trouble after asking if she would accompany him on the prom. A student of Pennsylvania high school asked Davuluri if she would come with him to prom during a question and answer session at school. Eighteen-year-old Patrick Farves was suspended from school for three days as he said he got …

Legendary guns go for big bucks these days. A gun owned by Wyatt Earp was sold at an auction Thursday for $225,000. The gun, a Colt .45 revolver, is believed to have been used during the O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, reported the Associated Press. Originally valued by the auction house between $100,000 and $150,000, the revolver was sold to …

Three bodies were retrieved for the first time late Saturday night from the sunken South Korean ferry, the emergency management headquarters said Sunday. “Divers broke through the window of a passenger cabin just before midnight and pulled out three bodies,” a coastguard official said today.