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The article offers information about celebrity pregnancies, accidents, legal matters, and deaths. Coanchor of the television program "World News Tonight," Elizabeth Vargas, and her husband are expecting their second child. Actress Shannen Doherty was in a car accident and Christian Slater refiled divorce papers. Pete Doherty was ordered to enter a rehabilitation program and Lucyna Turyk-Wawrynowicz pleaded guilty to larceny. The death of Chris Penn was ruled accidental. Actor Franklin Cover and author Peter Benchley died.