Today show weather-man Al Roker, 47, and his wife, 20/20 correspondent Deborah Roberts, 41, welcomed their second child together, son Nicholas Albert, on July 18 in New York City. He joins big sister Leila, 3.
...Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin, 36, and her husband, Kevin Grandalski, 37, who works in law enforcement, had their third child, son Tyler, on July 18 in L.A. Daughter Sarah is 6, son Brandon is 1.
Jailed
President Bush's niece Noelle Bush, 25, the daughter of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was jailed in Orlando for three days beginning July 17 for stealing pills from a medicine cabinet at a court-supervised live-in drug-treatment center. Bush was arrested in January for faking a prescription for antianxiety medication (PEOPLE, Feb. 11, 2002).
Ailing
Chris Matthews, 56, the anchor of MSNBC's Hardball, was hospitalized with malaria on July 22 in Washington, D.C. Doctors are not yet sure where or how Matthews, whose travels have taken him to the Middle East and Africa, contracted the disease. He is expected to recover....
Michael Houser, 40, guitarist for the rock band "Widespread Panic, recently disclosed he is suffering from pancreatic cancer. A statement on the band's Web site said that his family is caring for him at his Athens, Ga., home.
Deaths
Prolific author Chaim Potok,73, an Orthodox rabbi whose 1967 best-selling novel The Chosen was turned into a hit movie starring Robby Benson and Rod Steiger, died of brain cancer at his home in Merion, Pa., on July 23....
Music historian Alan Lomax, 87, who traveled the country to make thousands of recordings of folk, blues and jazz musicians from the 1930s onward, died of undisclosed causes on July 19 in Safety Harbor, Fla. Woody Guthrie and Muddy Waters were among the famous musicians he recorded....
Blues singer Rosco Gordon, 74, died of a heart attack at his Queens home on July 11. His string of hits in the 1950s included "Just a Little Bit," a song that was later recorded by Elvis Presley and the Beatles....
Journalist and author Jack Olsen, 77, best known for his award-winning, psychologically astute true-crime books, died of a heart attack at his home on Bainbridge Island, Wash., on July 16.
Sued
The music publisher for songwriters Kelly Price, Todd Gaither and Jeremy Graham sued Sean "P. Diddy" Combs for $4 million on May 24 in Manhattan, alleging the 32-year-old rapper cheated them out of royalties on six songs they cowrote for his 1997 album No Way Out. A spokeswoman for Combs said the lawsuit is without merit.
Update
On July 19 a Santa Monica judge turned down a motion by comedian Paula Poundstone, 42, which asked for her to be allowed more time with her three adopted children. They were removed from her home last year after Poundstone pleaded no contest to a felony child endangerment charge for driving drunk with children in her car (People, Sept. 10, 2001).
Saved by the Bell Reunion
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