Former Three 6 Mafia’s Crunchy Black Shot in Las Vegas

Crunchy Black (pictured), a former member of the Academy Award-winning hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia was shot over the weekend and hospitalized in Las Vegas at an undisclosed location.  When news of the shooting broke on Tuesday, the details surrounding it remained cloaked, reports MTV News.

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Sun-like star dimming may point to planet formation

Rocky planets like Earth may form in a hurry, suggests observations of one young star.

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Gemini Observatory/AURA artwork by Lynette Cook.

In the journal Nature, a team led by Carl Melis of the University of California, San Diego, looks at a "young, Sun-like star" called TYC 824126521, located some 456 light years from Earth (where one light year is about 5.9 trillion miles). About 10 million years old, TYC 824126521 was surrounded by a dense dust disk in observations made before 2009. Most early stars possess such dusty disks, from which planets are thought to later form, just as they did in our own solar system some 4.5 billion years ago.

Amazon to begin hiring 1,500 in Middle Tennessee

 Amazon is seeking to fill 1,500 jobs as it prepares to begin operations at the facilities in the fall. Starting pay ranges from $11 to $13 per hour, according to a news release.

Those interested in applying to work at Amazon.com's new fulfillment centers in Lebanon and Murfreesboro can begin doing so July 2.

According to a news release from the Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development, jobseekers can apply at Tennessee Career Centers. Directions and contact information for those centers is available here.

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Prescription drugs » Federal health officials urge restraint by doctors prescribing the drug.