0 Halle Berry suffers minor head injury on Los Angeles set

LOS ANGELES: Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry suffered a minor head injury while shooting a fight sequence for a movie in Los Angeles on Tuesday night and was treated at a hospital and released, her publicist said on Wednesday.

"She checked out healthy and was released. She'll continue production as planned," publicist Meredith O'Sullivan said in an email.

Berry, 45, is shooting "The Hive," a thriller directed by Brad Anderson and also starring Abigail Breslin.

An ambulance took Berry from the set in central Los Angeles to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and the set was shut down, the celebrity news website X17 reported. A hospital spokeswoman declined to say if Berry was treated there.

Barry hit her head on lights on the set of the 2004 film "Catwoman" but was not seriously injured, according to IMDb.com, a movie database.

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 2001 film "Monster's Ball." (Reuters)

0 Alleged Halle Berry stalker pleads no contest

LOS ANGELES: A man accused of stalking Halle Berry pleaded no contest Thursday, but was given no more time behind bars and had a burglary charge against him dismissed, prosecutors said.

Richard Franco, 28, was sentenced to five years of probation and 386 days in county jail, but was given credit for 193 days so "will not serve any additional time in county jail," the District Attorney's office said.

As part of a deal, in which he pleaded no contest to one count of stalking, Franco was also ordered to undergo one year of psychological counseling and a 10-year criminal protective order also was imposed.

Franco allegedly broke into a guest house at the Oscar-winning US actress's Hollywood home during one of the several times he was spotted there in July last year.

The former Bond girl said Franco had "terrorized" her over three days from July 9, before he was arrested at 11:15 pm on July 11. Prosecutor Wendy Segall said in early proceedings that Berry was "in fear for her safety."

Franco pleaded not guilty to the first-degree burglary charge, which said he broke into the guest house on July 10.

AFP