The operations manager at Chicago's Navy Pier said he would attempt to set a world record by riding a Ferris wheel for 48 hours non-stop. Read More

Talk about serendipity: An Illinois man who has suffered through a string of setbacks the past couple years and was facing eviction on his home discovered a winning Illinois Lottery ticket worth $4.85 million in a cookie jar. Read More

The Power Rangers reunion gets less mighty by the day ... now it's the BLACK Power Ranger who says he won't go-go ... in part out of respect for the Blue Ranger's beef with producers.

As TMZ previously reported ... Blue Power Ranger David Yost declined an invitation to reunite the original cast, saying the producers harassed him for being gay when he was on the show from 1993-1996.

Now original Black Power Ranger Walter Jones tells TMZ he was treated pretty badly, too ... and he's following his friend's lead.

"I'm very sorry to disappoint the fans as I would have loved to be a part of it," Jones tells TMZ. "David, who I still keep in touch with regularly, is a very great guy and it would have been fun to work together again on something we helped originate." Read More

Kim Kardashian is NOT upset that Kanye West has decided to go on tour just a few months after the birth of their child ... because TMZ has learned, she plans to go with him, baby and all.

There are reports Kim felt like Kanye was abandoning her by scheduling a tour for his new album in October -- just three months after she's expected to give birth -- but sources close to the touring company tell us, that's not true ... because Kim and the baby are coming along for the ride.

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George Michael was airlifted to a hospital yesterday after reportedly sustaining a head injury in a single-car accident in England ... but doctors say he's expected to be OK.

According to the singer's rep, Michael was a passenger in a Range Rover that crashed on the M1 motorway (a huge freeway) at around 5:50 PM local time.

The rep says no vehicles were involved in the crash.  It's unclear exactly what caused the collision. Read More

Justin Bieber has a month to pick up his capuchin monkey, Mally, after the little simian was detained and quarantined by German customs officials last week. Bieber was headed to Munich for a show, and brought Mally along for the Austrian and German legs of his European tour. But the singer didn't have the proper documentation for the monkey, so Mally was taken into custody. The creature has been in the care of a shelter. Read More

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Dick Trickle has died at 71-years-old. The NASCAR driver was found dead at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Lincoln County, North Carolina on May 16 from what appeared to be a self inflicted gun shot wound. This is such a tragedy. Read More