LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – San Francisco neighboring earthquake continue to shake the region Tuesday; while of lesser magnitude, today’s earthquakes felt from San Francisco to San Jose are happening every few hours since midnight last night. Nearly one dozen lesser earthquakes have been rocking the Bay Area this week, as often as three per hour.

USGS tells news that today’s earthquakes are not substantial, but are becoming routine. A quake struck at 8:27 am local time centered sixty-five miles southeast of San Jose. That same epicenter (Pinnacles) has been the so0urce of dozens of quakes felt in San Francisco this month.

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But since last night, San Francisco quake activity has heightened. There was another quake at 8:11 am, one twenty minutes earlier, two more roughly an hour before that, and a handful since last night.

The last substantial quake to strike the region was on August 27. Last weekend, in two days, the region suffered five quakes in forty-eight hours of at least 3.2 magnitude.

All these quakes have been felt across a wide area of the region because of their shallow epicenters. USGS reports to news that these quakes have had depths as little as only four miles below the earth’s surface. Local news had yet to document any reports of injuries.

In related news, a 3.0 earthquake struck Mexico this morning. Centered in Baja Mexico, the quake was only one hundred miles from Tijuana and felt as close the California-Mexico border. It struck with a nominal depth of only eight miles below the earth’s surface.

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ST LOUIS (LALATE) – The Madden 12 Curse debate heated up today with all eyes on Peyton Hills. The Madden Curse is detailed extensively following the announced release date of Madden 12 featuring Hills on the cover. The Madden Curse, in fact, is covered extensively across football news today with Sports Illustrated even doing a thirteen page retrospective report on the Madden Curse. But does the Curse even exist?

As stated in news today, the Curse represents the allleged “phenomenon where whomever is on the cover of the game suffers at least a season, if not a career, collapse.” The curse detailed here, however, hasn’t necessarily leave up to its reputation. In fact, in some years, cover stars had lackluster seasons without injuries. In other years, the cover athlete had a one or two game injury, certainly nothing indicative of a curse or a career changing hit.

In fact, in recent years, the news coverage of the curse has been more like a YouTube reaction to a Susan Boyle performance. In each of the last two seasons, whenever a cover athlete is hit and carted off the field during a NFL game, news broadcaster in domino fashion begin to pull out their vuvuzelas and announce the curse has returned. Nothing could be further from the truth.

For Madden 10, Larry Fitzgerald and Troy Polamalu shared the cover. That season both athletes took a hit. Immediately news exclaimed the Curse was alive. But Troy was only out a mere two games with an ankle injury. He returned to final game of the season against the Browns and delivered a stunning interception. In January 2011, he went on to earn AP Defensive Player of the Year.

Larry Fitzgerald suffered an injury during his Madden cover season. But it wasn’t a season ending injury. In fact, the thumb injury had first manifested itself at least two years before the Madden cover.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Chelsea Handler, a mysterious “dude with gold shoes”, and Andre Balazs are wrapped up in bizarre accusations across New York news. Reports claim that Handler was locked up with a “dude with gold shoes” during a recent party; when security found out about Handler and Mr. Shoes, they allegedly threw the two out of the party.

But when sought for comment, Handler’s rep Stephen Huvane made the story become even more confusing stating “She was at the employee party but not at the Standard. She was not kicked out of the men’s room — that is a fabrication.” While Joel McHale has reportedly been instructed he can’t talk about Kim Kardashian’s tape any longer on The Soup, it remains unclear if men with gold shoes are now ripe for coverage.

The Handler report from there got worse, claiming that Handler’s boyfriend recently upgraded from Courtney Love to Chelsea Handler. Handler is reportedly dating Andre Balazas. The report states “Balazs … has a thing for bad girls, and romanced rocker Courtney Love before hooking up with Handler.” Handler has previously dated Ted Harbert, Dave Salmoni of Animal Planet, and 50 Cent.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – While reports of Beyonce’s due date surfaced yesterday, the news came just weeks after Jay-Z told press of changes to his Watch the Throne Tour dates. On August 2, 2011, Jay-Z told news that demand for his Watch The Tour had prompted concert date changes. But at that time, there was no explanation why certain cities dropped from the tour weren’t added later on. So why wasn’t the tour extended into January? As reported on Monday, Beyonce’s due date is in February.

Jay-Z and Beyonce are reportedly hoping for a baby boy. The due date is sometime in February 2012. Jay-Z wraps up his rescheduled Watch the Tour just weeks earlier on December 18. His final stop is Vancouver, British Columbia.

At the time when the tour was been reworked, Jay-Z made no mention of Beyonce’s pregnancy. He told Angie Martinez just several days ago “That’s an old list we had to push that back, because it was like, we tried to put it out in pre-order and all the lines got jammed”.

He added “We pushed it back to really route it and put other dates on there. We’ll probably put four New York dates there instead.” He said “all the [telephone] lines got jammed”. Kelly Rowland told news this week that Beyonce has been pregnant for several months.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Joseph Hyungmin Son (photos above) before he played Austin Powers villain Random Task was a real life criminal who brutally attacked a female in Los Angeles. Now the past of Joseph Hyungmin Son aka Joe Son, the star of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, has been revealed. Son, apparently unknown to studio casting agents, had attacked a female seven years before he was hired for the blockbuster film.

Joseph Hyungmin Son first became known in the U.S. not as an actor but as a UFC fighter. He appeared in one of the earliest UFC fights ever, first as a manager and later as a fighter. He eventually lost his fight. But then years later, he committed a hideous crime against a female on Christmas Eve. The details too horrific to print ended with Joseph Hyungmin Son dropping off the woman in the middle of Compton alive, unclothed, her pants tied around her eyes.

His crime went unsolved for years. Seven years later Son secured the role in “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery”. But then, recently, DNA evidence taken during a parole hearing linked Son to the 1990 attack. Having been convicted, he now faces 15 years to life in prison.

Son was reportedly not set to return to his role for Austin Powers 4. While no director has been chosen, Myers and New Line Cinema are reportedly close to contracting for a fourth installment. No production date has yet been released.

Myers’ 1997 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery made sixty seven million dollars in box office sales. Two years later, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, cost thirty-three million to make and grossed three hundred million worldwide. The third installment in 2002, Austin Powers in Goldmember, doubled the budget but pulled in roughly the same box office receipts.

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