THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Gene Wilder (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) has died at age 83. He died Sunday of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Mexican singer and songwriter Juan Gabriel died over the weekend. He was 66.
- 323 reindeer were killed by lightning in Norway over the weekend. It's happened before, but not even close to that number.
- Olympic gymnastics star Gabby Douglas was hospitalized Sunday night, forcing her to miss a scheduled appearance with her U.S. teammates at the MTV Video Music Awards. She was being treated for a mouth injury.
- Charles Osgood will wrap up his 22-year stint as host of CBS Sunday Morning on September 25.
- Louis Vuitton has paid $122 million to buy a store on Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive.
- There's a new report that says that the sales of canned wine are on the rise.
- A psychiatrist says up to 60% of college students have a psychological disorder.
- Portland, Oregon, has called for a ban on religious, talk and rap music being played on the radio in school buses.
- Men who work at a bra company in Belgium are being forced to wear weights simulating size E cup breasts around their neck so they know how women feel.
- Jennifer Lopez got up on stage and performed a song with her ex, Marc Anthony, in New York over the weekend.
- Six scientists have wrapped up a year-long near isolation Mars-like simulation in Hawaii.
- Swimmer Katie Ledecky turned down $5 million in endorsements to attend Stanford.
- The nephew of Colonel Sanders may have inadvertently exposed the KFC secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices.
- Bruce Springsteen played what is said to be his longest U.S. concert ever in New Jersey at nearly four hours.
- Anthony Weiner -- whose wife Huma Abedin is traveling the country with Hillary Clinton -- is caught up in another sexting controversy. This time, exchanging pictures with a stripper while his son climbed into bed with him.
- That dress Blue Ivy wore to the VMA's on Sunday Night -- cost $11,000.
- 55-year-old Allison Carey -- the sister of Mariah Carey -- has been arrested on prostitution charges in upstate New York.
- The big deal in tennis, the U.S. Open, is underway in New York.
- The first comprehensive federal drone rules went into effect yesterday.
- Darrell Ward, star of History Channel's "Ice Road Truckers" died in at plane crash in Missoula, Montana on Sunday. He was 52.
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