SOUTH BEND (LALATE) – Declan Sullivan of Notre Dame is dead at age 20. Declan Sullivan death was confirmed by Notre Dame officials Wednesday; Sullivan was a student videotaping football practice when his scissors lift fell over in 50 mph winds.

Why did Notre Dame have Declan Sullivan up in 50 mph winds on a hydraulic lift above the football’s goalposts? Questions dominate the investigation today into Sullivan’s death, a junior from Long Grove Illinois. Weather conditions had not been good this week. On Tuesday, a major storm in the midwest had prompted school closures on Tuesday for over an hour as tornado sirens sounded.

Twenty-four hours later, Declan Sullivan was up in the air. Why?

Sullivan even tweeted shortly before his death “Gusts of wind up to 60mph well today will be fun at work… I guess I’ve lived long enough :-/” Thereafter, windgusts were in excess of 50 mph, reports Fanhouse. Sullivan tweets again “Holy (bleep) holy (bleep) holy (bleep) this is terrifying.”

Less than fifty minutes later, the lift collapsed and Sullivan was dead.

Memorial services for Sullivan are set for Notre Dame Basilica at 10 o’clock. University president Rev. John Jenkins issued the following statement “We are deeply saddened by this tragic loss. Our hearts go out to the student’s family and friends and our prayers and profound sympathies are with them during this incredibly difficult time. The loss of someone so young is a terrible shock and a great sadness. Our entire community shares in the family’s grief.”

Coach Brian Kelly issued the following statement “Our thoughts and prayers go out to Declan’s family and friends. Declan was a diligent student worker in our video department and had a tremendous personality and great sense of humor. He brightened the days for all that had the privilege to work with him, and the Notre Dame football family will dearly miss him.”

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Debralee Lorenzana (photos below) aka Debralee Lorenzana filed suit against Citibank (NYSE: C) last summer. Now Debralee Lorenzana is being referenced by news that six more women are bringing suit against Citibank. Among the women are Chia Siu, Brittany Sharpton, Lisa Conley, Amy Bartoletti, Dorly Hazan-Amir, and Nadine Mentor. The women claim that Citibank male bosses underpaid them, punished them for being mothers and fired them using the economy as an excuse. In a statement to news, they claim Citibank was a workforce filled with inappropriate comments toward women.

The women are seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in competition, reports Sky News.

One of the women, Dorly Hazan-Amir, asserts in the complaint  “throughout the course of her employment with Citigroup she has been subjected to inappropriate and offensive comments based on her gender” in which women are allegedly underpaid. She claims she was demoted to a “less prestigious and less lucrative position” after a returning from maternity leave. “There is a glass ceiling adversely affecting female employees, especially those female employees who become pregnant, take a maternity leave, or have childcare obligations, at Citigroup in all facets of their employment.” Their lawsuit claims alleged Citibank “boys club” antics “filters down through the management ranks to affect all senior and junior level professional positions”.

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Citibank says of the current suit that “Many of … [the] allegations are false, unsupported or taken completely out of context .. Many of their allegations are either totally inaccurate or selectively incomplete. The facts do not support their claims of gender discrimination.”

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Lorenzana’s suit was reportedly dismissed from Court for contract reasons. The Telegraph reports that Lorenzana’s contract requires employment disputes must go to private arbitration; Lorenzana will reportedly will continue the matter there.

Sky News reports Goldman Sachs is being sued by three female former employees for similar allegations, allegations they say are “without merit”.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Actress Lisa Blount is dead at 53. Lisa Blout’s death is confirmed by reps today, Blount died of natural causes says a local Coroner. Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper tells news that Lisa Blount died on Monday, not of foul play, and that an autopsy is scheduled.

Blount won an Oscar for the 2002 short The Accountant; her husband Roy McKinnon was the film’s director and star. In winning, she told the Academy “As one door was seemingly closing in my life, another door opened. And I only have one person to thank for that, my husband Ray McKinnon.”

She received a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actor in An Officer and Gentleman. Blount had recently signed on for a new tv series – Outlaw Country – for FX. Blount had filmed the series’ pilot episode.

Blount died at home in Little Rock where she and her husband lived since 2005. Other credits included Great Balls of Fire and Chrystal. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A filmmaker tells news that a time traveler is caught on film in Charlie Chaplin’s Circus. George Clarke tells news that a time traveler is captured in a DVD release of Charlie Chaplin’s Circus. But is it just a hearing aid? Clarke is a Belfast filmmaker who says for over a year he has struggled for an explanation about what appears in the film. He now claims that it’s a time traveler.

Is Clarke correct or just a filmmaker looking for self promotion?

At the beginning of his video, Clarke promotes his films George Clarke and Battle of the Bone and his Belfast film festival. He says that over the last year one hundred people have seen the footage and can’t determine what they are seeing.

The footage appears not in the film Circus but in outtakes, released on DVD, of Hollywood Boulevard preparing for the film’s premiere. The footage in question lasts all of a second and depicts the man above. Clarke believes it’s a man in woman’s clothing. The person appears in frame from right to left and is gone. “I’ve screened this to about 100 people at a film festival I run here in Belfast, and nobody could give me an explanation. Right now the only conclusion I can come to, which sounds absolutely ridiculous I’m sure to some people, but it’s a time traveler”.

It remains unclear if Clarke has ever has ever visited Hollywood Boulevard. There you would have no problem finding a person acting a bit peculiar, during any decade. Clarke’s assertion is that the person is holding a cellphone and hence is from the future. The New York Daily News adds it can’t be a walkie-talkie, not existent until twenty years later. So what is it? Many are asserting that the device is simply a bulky hearing aid from the time.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Christina Walsh (photos below), aka Capri Anderson, Alexis Capri or Stella Costanza, allegedly feared Charlie Sheen after a hotel rampage. Christina Walsh is known as Capri Anderson in a series of notable film roles, but today sources close to Christina Walsh are explaining her alleged terror she experience as Charlie Sheen damaged more than two and half piece of furniture in his Plaza Hotel room.

Christina Walsh was invited to dinner by Charlie Sheen. At the table was an unlikely guest – his ex wife Denise Richards (Blue Mountain State). Hours later Sheen and Christina Walsh were back in his hotel Room 1832. How the night had started remains unclear. Walsh is said to have met Sheen at Monday at the Plaza. Sometime thereafter she, Sheen, and Richards were eating at Daniel, a nearby restaurant. Initial reports had said they were dining inside the Hotel. Other reports have listed several others at the dinner table that night; their names have yet to be released.

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Richards has two children with Sheen – Sam and Lola. Reports are consistent in claiming that, part way during that dinner, Denise Richards was upset with Sheen and left abruptly. “Charlie was rowdy from the beginning like he had been drinking prior” claims Life and Style. New reports say that Richards and Sheen were both staying at the Plaza in enjoining rooms for the sake of their kids.

Sheen has said in a text message after the incident “Oh my man, I’m fine. The story is totally overblown and overplayed as far as the reality of the scenario. I know what went down and that’s where it will stay… under wraps.”

Sheen initially went to New York Presbyterian Hospital, then was sent via private jet to Los Angeles. Sheen has promised to pay for the Hotel damage. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne says no arrests are coming.

Richards when appearing on Joan Behar had no comment. When she appeared on the Today Show Richards added “Charlie will always be a part of my life, we are bonded together for ever. it doesn’t matter what the situation is he will still be their dad. It was unfortunate what happened, I can’t control what happened all I can do is move forward, I control my house and the girls and they are happy, beautiful children.

“I am concerned about our children, and my concern is to keep them protected and thank God they are still five and six and still cannot just turn on the television or computer to read the news.”

Walsh is said to have locked herself in either a closet or bathroom and called for help during the Sheen hotel rampage. On screen, Walsh is credited often as Capri Anderson, Alexis Capri or Stella Costanza.

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