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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Coroner's Report: Houston Died by Accidental Drowning

The Huffington Post reports that TMZ got a copy of the coroner's report, which states that the pop icon had cocaine in her system when she died in her California hotel room.

When music icon Whitney Houston was eulogized in the Newark church she grew up in and laid to rest next to her father at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, fans wanted to know how she died Feb. 11 in the hotel bathtub in her Hollywood hotel room. According to a report in the Huffington Post, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office ruled her death to be an accidental drowning. According to the report, the troubled singer, who had a home in Mendham, had traces of cocaine, marijuana, anti-anxiety drug Xanax, muscle relaxer Flexeril and allergy medicine Benedryl in her system at the time of her death. The Huffington Post credits celebrity-gossip site TMZ with obtaining the report. Now that the news is out, does it make it easier to accept the …

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Whitney Houston's Body Returned to New Jersey

Mourners hold candlelight vigil, sing along to Houston's hit songs outside Newark funeral home.

Whitney Houston is finally home. The singer's body was returned to her native Newark shortly before midnight Monday amid a throng of screaming fans who waited hours for the hearse to arrive at Whigham Funeral Home. Surrounded by heavy police presence, a gold-colored car with blacked out windows dropped off Houston's casket, concealed by a white tent, at a back entrance off Shipman Street. Houston's mother, Cissy, and other family members were seen filing into the funeral home about 15 minutes before the hearse arrived. Houston, who was found dead at age 48 inside a Beverly Hills hotel room Saturday, was flown from California to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey for the wake and public memorial that may be held in Newark later this week. "She…

Joyce Hawkins

2:47 am on Saturday, February 18, 2012

WOW!!!! WHITNEY IS REALLY GONE....I HOPE SHES RESTING WITH YESHUA.   more ›

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