LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Jerry Brown underwent nose reconstructive surgery this weekend. Jerry Brown’s nose had become afflicted with a cancerous growth. On Friday the growth was removed in surgery.

In a news statement today, Jerry Brown’s office confirmed the Governor had a basal cell carcinoma growth on his nose. During a procedure Friday, the growth was removed from the Governor’s nose. Thereafter the California governor underwent reconstructive surgery on the nose.

The statement did not indicate if the procedure was scheduled or not. The Governor was reportedly set to appear at a public function this Sunday. But in a news statement today, his office says he has canceled all appearances until the removal of the stitches.

In the years since last serving as governor in California, Brown has run for President twice, headed the State Democratic party, and served as Oakland mayor from 1996 to 2004 and state attorney general since 2006. This is Brown’s third term as governor.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Horses were seized from Canterbury Farms by investigators, claims a new report. Nearly 150 hours from Canterbury Farms that boasts Arabian stallions were seized by investigators two weeks ago. Investigators had determined that the horses were in critical condition, indicates a new report Saturday.

Queen Anne’s County investigators two weeks ago arrived at the Maryland breeder of Polish Arabian stallions and found some horses nearly three hundred pounds underweight. Not all the horses could be saved; six were euthanized; others were seized; and remaining animals were ordered to be better treated by the farm, claimed David MacGlashan, director of the Queen Anne’s animal services department.

Polish Arabians normally can weigh in excess of one thousand pounds. But when found two weeks ago, many of the horses were roughly sixty percent of their normal weight. Somme horses were so emaciated that excessive feeding was needed after the rescue effort to bring the horses back to normal weight.

Efforts are being headed by the Days End Farm Horse Rescue group (www.defhr.org) and the Humane Society of the United States.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Mariah Carey has given birth to twins. Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon welcomed twin babies today – a boy and a girl – on the couple’s third wedding anniversary. Carey, 41, and Cannon, 30, confirmed the news via Twitter today.

“Born, April 30th at 12:07pm ET. Mommy, Daddy & #dembabies are all doing fine!” wrote a rep for the singer today on Twitter. “Congratulations to Mariah & Nick on the birth of #dembabies!!”

Cannon later twitted himself “My wife just gave me the most incredible anniversary gift ever in life!” Cannon added “I won’t ever be able to top this!”

The couple was calm during the delivery. But Cannon’s rep confirmed the reality TV host was a bit frantic first, going to the wrong room in the hospital prior to delivery.

Carey first fueled reports of twins when she told a news interviewer that she sang Christmas songs during her pregnancy. She added “I just hope that they don’t turn out hating Christmas!”

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – The Sister Marie Simon-Pierre Normand miracle is confirmed for Pope John Paul II’s Beatification Sunday. While the cure of Sister Marie Simon-Pierre from Parkinson’s Disease represents the single miracle needed for the Beatification of John Paul II Sunday, persons involved in the multi-year investigation claim there are countless miracles that have been associated with the late Pope.

But how do miracles impact the Beatification process? And when do the miracles have to occur?

In advance of Sunday’s Beatification mass, the Vatican explained to news the requirements of miracles with their multi-year inquiry. First, one miracle must be confirmed by an investigative committee of the Vatican, explain officials to news. The miracle must have occurred after the Pope John Paul II’s death and following prayer to the Pope.

In 2001, Sister Marie Simon Pierre Normand, a French nun, learned she had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. A Vatican investigation has determined that fellow French nuns encouraged Sister Marie years later to pray to the then deceased John Paul, Following prayer, the Sister was cured of the disease.

A miracle to be certified by the church requires some set of circumstances that are “scientifically inexplicable”. The beatification process requires that the miracle happen as a result of prayers to a deceased Catholic.

But how about sainthood for Pope John Paul? Church officials tell news that the another miracle must be verified associated with the Pope occurring after Sunday’s beatification process.

Will that happen?

A new book published called The Miracle of Karol (the birth name of the Pope – Karol Wojtyla) claims that there a thousands of other miracles since the Pope’s death. Among them are the recovery of one boy named Jesse following his birth in November 2009; another concerns a Catholic man in the U.S. who suffered from cirrhosis of the liver.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Results of UFC 129 St Pierre vs Shields weigh-ins didn’t initially go so well for Ben Henderson. UFC 129 results at last night’s weigh-in went smoothly until Marck Bocek and Ben Henderson took to the scale. The fighters compose one of three PPV fights that will air before the two main event fights of St Pierre vs. Shields and Aldo vs. Hominick.

When Bocek took to the scale, he made weight at 155. But when Henderson stepped on the scale, he failed, weighing in at 156 1/2 pounds. On his second attempt, Henderson dropped the extra half pound.

Battling after Bocek vs. Henderson tonight is Matyushenko vs. Brilz and Couture vs Machida. For Aldo vs. Hominick, both fighters weighed in at one hundred forty-five pounds. For St Pierre vs. Shields, the fighters came at 169 and 169.5 pounds, respectively.

Tonight’s UFC 129 involves five Facebook Preliminary Fights. They are followed by two Spike TV Preliminary fights, then the three PPVs, and then the two Main Event fights.

For UFC fans, there are fights virtually all afternoon and evening this Saturday. The Facebook fights are at 6:00 pm ET. The Spike TV fights start two hours later. And the five PPV fights start at 9 pm ET PT from the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For weigh-in results and tonight’s fight card, click HERE.

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