Hot Tub

Radnor Township police are investigating the death of a woman who apparently was electrocuted while bathing in a hot tub during the weekend at her St. Davids home. Yvonne Bagley, 39, was pronounced dead on arrival at Paoli Memorial Hospital between midnight and 1 a.m. Sunday, shortly after her body, wrapped in a blanket, was brought there by her husband. Police said that Charles Bagley, 43, told officers that his wife was electrocuted when a plugged-in soldering iron and an extension cord fell from a shelf into the upstairs hot tub at the couple's home, in the 200 block of Radnor Chester Road.

Poking fun at the swimming pool at Arizona's Bank One Ballpark, the Giants set up a hot tub on a platform next to the center-field bleachers for their series with the Diamondbacks in San Francisco. It is part of a promotion during the four-game set. The hot tub will be given away in a drawing of ticket holders if a Giant hits a homer into the tub. Armando Benitez returned to the Baltimore Orioles after serving an eight-game suspension for his part in a May 19 brawl with the New York Yankees that started after he hit Tino Martinez with a pitch.

LAS VEGAS - Authorities say the 2-year-old son of former Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham is dead after apparently drowning in a backyard hot tub. Las Vegas police Lt. Dennis Flynn says it appeared to have been an accident. He says a woman at the house with several other children found the boy about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and began trying to resuscitate him. The child was pronounced dead at St. Rose Dominican Hospital Siena campus in Henderson. Cunningham starred at UNLV and played for 16 years in the NFL, mostly for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Police in Lackawanna County are investigating whether drugs and alcohol were involved in the accidental drowning in a hot tub Wednesday of a Bridgeport man who was staying at a Scranton hotel. Investigators identified the man as John Saviello, 41, of Seventh Street. They said he checked into a room Wednesday at the Clarion Hotel with a woman police identified as Danielle Marlatt. The two got into the hot tub in the early morning, Scranton City Police Lt. Al Leoncini said, and were seen by another guest who was walking the halls because she could not sleep.

An expert who says his pig-shocking experiments prove that accused Main Line wife killer Charles Bagley's soldering gun story is a lie bore up against an entire day of exhaustive questions by Bagley's lawyer. By the time Delaware County Judge Joseph Cronin adjourned court at 9:20 last night - after nearly eight full hours of filibuster-style cross- examination by Bagley's lawyer - Dr. Robert Stratbucker's opinion was the same as when he first took the witness stand on Tuesday: That Yvonne Bagley could not have been electrocuted in the hot tub in March 1989.

The Main Line's hot-tubbing Bagleys were "a happy couple" free of money troubles, a friend said yesterday as Charles Bagley's defense opened at his murder trial. The bliss, of course, ended with Yvonne Bagley's March 1989 tub death in their St. David's home. Prosecutors contend that Bagley, an ex-Temple University finance professor and commodities consultant, beat and strangled her in the tub to collect $600,000 in insurance. But Terry Rubritz, who had known the Bagleys for six years, described a marriage of contentment that contrasted sharply with the prosecution portrait of Bagley as a skirt-chaser beset by debt.

The Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office has officially concluded that the death of a 35-year-old woman who was found in an East Falls hot tub two weeks ago was an accidental drowning caused by drug and alcohol intoxication. Barry Dickman, a spokesman for the medical examiner, said yesterday that the final toxicology results confirmed the preliminary conclusion that Valerie Sheridan's death was accidental. "There was no evidence of foul play," Dickman said. He said the primary cause of death was "drowning due to multiple drug and alcohol intoxication.

Yvonne Bagley pulled the strings. She planned the $100,000 home remodeling. She hired the contractors. She signed the checks. She wanted the hot tub. She was master of her home. The boss. Charles Bagley paid for it. He brought home the paychecks that went into the bank accounts that Yvonne Bagley emptied. He helped with the home-repair jobs that Yvonne scheduled for him (and bungled most). He was the worker. And bread-winner. And was told by his wife, the boss, that he should make even more money and leave his job teaching finance at Temple University - "a dump," as she called the university.

Brian McNamee says he injected Roger Clemens with drugs at the Yankee Stadium hot tub and that among the needles he gave government investigators was one he used to inject the pitcher in 2001, according to the Web site sportsimproper.com. A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., is investigating whether Clemens lied when he told a congressional committee last year that he didn't use illegal performance-enhancing substances. McNamee, Clemens' former personal trainer, testified before the same committee and said he repeatedly injected Clemens with steroids and HGH. "One of the needles I gave the government was used to inject Clemens with steroids in either July or August of 2001," McNamee was quoted as saying by sportsimproper.

ILYA BRYZGALOV stopped 30 shots while tending goal through 60 sweaty minutes last night against the Chicago Blackhawks. And then said he was too ill to speak to the media after the game, in which he blew a two-goal lead in a span of 25 seconds in the third period. So, either Bryzgalov caught a cold from sitting on the 36-degree bench during Monday's Winter Classic, or the Flyers' brass told him to put a sock in his "hu-man-gous" mouth after defying coach Peter Laviolette last Sunday by purposely revealing Sergei Bobrovsky as the big-event starter.

Whoever came up with the phrase "No one is irreplaceable" probably worked in the TV business. Charlie Sheen has an acrimonious parting of the ways with Two and a Half Men ? Steve Carell opts out of The Office ? The shows will go on. But the industry faces a new challenge: How do you replace someone who defects from a reality show? I submit that you solve it the same way: stunt casting. MTV's Jersey Shore took two major hits this week as first Vinny and then the Situation walked out on the taping of the fifth season in Seaside Heights.

FRANKLIN & BASH. 9 p.m. tomorrow, TNT. MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE. 10 p.m. tomorrow, TNT. BOYS WILL BE boys tomorrow night on TNT, but I think I'll be sticking with the ones who are at least trying to be men. At 9 p.m., Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar go the buddy-comedy route in "Franklin & Bash," a new lawyer show the network's calling an "offbeat drama" - though it's hard to think of something whose beats are this predictable as...

Police in Lackawanna County are investigating whether drugs and alcohol were involved in the accidental drowning in a hot tub Wednesday of a Bridgeport man who was staying at a Scranton hotel. Investigators identified the man as John Saviello, 41, of Seventh Street. They said he checked into a room Wednesday at the Clarion Hotel with a woman police identified as Danielle Marlatt. The two got into the hot tub in the early morning, Scranton City Police Lt. Al Leoncini said, and were seen by another guest who was walking the halls because she could not sleep.

About eight years ago, Roxann Dulce came oh, so close. Another quarter-inch of snow on Christmas Day, and Anthony Jewelers in Palmyra would have refunded the cost of purchases all of its customers had made on Thanksgiving weekend. This year, the Riverside financial controller had a hunch that she would win - just as she predicted the Giants would beat the undefeated New England Patriots in the 2008 Super Bowl. New York did win, in an all-time crazy nail-biter. So, on the Saturday after Turkey Day this year, Dulce went to Anthony Jewelers and bought a rainbow sapphire bracelet for herself, a couple of ornaments, and a gift for a niece.

For at least a half-century, three ground covers have dominated the American home landscape: English ivy, pachysandra, and vinca minor, or periwinkle. They grow fast. They need little care. And, truth be told, they're not bad-looking. But by their very ubiquity, the Big Three are about as boring as a landscape can get. And they reveal something about us as gardeners that, while understandable, is pretty pathetic: We don't have much imagination and we'd like to avoid anything requiring work, if possible.

I'M IN LOVE with Chris Christie. It's platonic, especially since he's married with kids. But every time I see his chubby face, I realize how disappointed I am in the choices we on the other side of Camden face in the fall: Tom Corbett (BO-ring) or Dan Onorato (ANNOY-ing.) Neither of our gubernatorial candidates can hold a candle to Christie in terms of charisma, attitude and who-gives-a-damn-what-the-media-thinks bravado. Christie is the genuine article, and Jersey is lucky to have him. Which I suppose makes up for having to deal with Snooki.

FAMILY COMES first at Remnant Ministries, the Las Vegas church where former Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham serves as pastor. "The family unit is the most important unit in the universe," the church's Web site states. "Healthy families are the closest thing to heaven on earth. " Cunningham's universe was shattered late Tuesday afternoon when his youngest son accidentally drowned in the family's back-yard hot tub - the same tub in which Cunningham, an ordained minister, reportedly performs baptisms.

LAS VEGAS - Authorities say the 2-year-old son of former Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham is dead after apparently drowning in a backyard hot tub. Las Vegas police Lt. Dennis Flynn says it appeared to have been an accident. He says a woman at the house with several other children found the boy about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and began trying to resuscitate him. The child was pronounced dead at St. Rose Dominican Hospital Siena campus in Henderson. Cunningham starred at UNLV and played for 16 years in the NFL, mostly for the Philadelphia Eagles.