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Applegate has a girl

LOS ANGELES

Actress Christina Applegate is a mom. Her publicist says in a brief news release Tuesday that Sadie Grace LeNoble was born Jan. 27 in Los Angeles, and mother and daughter are doing great. There are no other details.

The 39-year-old “Married With Children” and “Samantha Who?” star and 41-year-old Dutch musician Martyn LeNoble became engaged last Valentine’s Day. Her pregnancy was announced in July. Applegate had a double mastectomy in July 2008 and reconstructive surgery months later. She is cancer-free.

Zsa Zsa in hospital

LOS ANGELES

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s publicist says the actress has been taken back to a Los Angeles hospital because she started spitting up blood and mucus. John Blanchette says just before 10 a.m. Tuesday, doctors told Gabor’s husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, that she was bleeding internally and he should call an ambulance.

Gabor was released from Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center a week after doctors amputated most of her right leg Jan. 14.

Blanchette says the 93-year-old actress didn’t recognize her doctor or her husband Sunday.

Gabor broke her hip and had replacement surgery in July. She has been hospitalized several times for swelling and clots, then the amputation.

Sal Picinich, baker on ‘Cake Boss,’ dies

CARLSTADT, N.J.

Sal Picinich, a veteran baker who appeared on the reality TV series “Cake Boss,” has died in New Jersey. He was 63. His wife, Lucille, told The Record newspaper the cause was cancer.

Picinich was born on the Croatian island of Susak. He worked 45 years at Carlo’s Bakery in Hoboken, where the TV series is recorded.

Picinich stopped appearing on the show when he began battling illness in late 2009. However, he returned last summer to accept the employee of the century award to mark the bakery’s 100th anniversary.

W.Va. country singer Doc Williams dies

WHEELING, W.Va.

Country music singer and Jamboree USA performer Doc Williams died Monday at his home in Wheeling. He was 96.

According to his website, Williams was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914 as Andrew John Smik. He came to Wheeling in 1937 to audition for WWVA radio station. He and his late wife, Chickie, became popular acts for WWVA and its show that later became known as Jamboree USA. The couple was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2009.

Vindicator wire reports