In a statement issued yesterday, brothers Keith and Robert Carradine announced that Dr. Michael Baden, the forensics expert they independently hired to carry out a second autopsy on the actor, determined that their sibling did not take his own life, Eonline reports.

"The autopsy findings and the evidence thus far available demonstrate that Mr. Carradine's death was not the result of suicide," said Baden, chief forensic pathologist for the New York State Police, who conducted the autopsy in California.

An initial postmortem was done in Thailand, but officials there said the results would not be back for one or two more weeks.

"Until we have all of the pending results of the investigation we respectfully ask that we be allowed to lay our beloved brother, husband and father, grandfather and great-grandfather to rest in peace and with dignity," Robert Carradine said. The "Kill Bill" star was found dead in his luxury hotel room one week ago. Police said the actor was hanging naked in his closet, a rope tied to his neck and genitals, leading to the suspicion that his death may have been the accidental result of autoerotic asphyxiation.

In the aftermath of Carrie Prejean's firing by Donald Trump and his West Coast cohorts, the Miss California Organization proudly trotted out its new princess, Tami Farrell, on "Today" and the "Early Show" yesterday.

Tami Farrell, the new Miss California USA.

She stuck to the company line on both shows, tossing out phrases about being "honored," "moving forward" and making herself "available to the program" and charities and all that jazz, Eonline reports.

"I was a little hesitant to be stepping into the line of fire, I'll be honest," she said on "Today." "There's been divisive questions. I've been brought in to try and unify our state. I'm not being silenced for my beliefs, but I just think that this isn't a battle that anybody can win, so I'm going to do my best to just refocus it on some of the other aspects."

The head of the Miss California pageant, Keith Lewis, said that Prejean missed "tens and tens and tens" of appearances and insists the beauty wasn't dethroned for her political leanings.

"I think it's time for us to move back this political platform that she was fired because of her beliefs, because that dog just won't hunt," he told "Today."

He compared letting the beauty go to laying off an employee at any job.

"I think if you tell your boss, 'I'm not gonna do the job, I'm gonna do whatever I want, you can't tell me what I'm gonna do,' I think that you expect that your boss is gonna say to you, You know what? You're probably not supposed to be in this job anymore," Lewis explained on the "Early Show." "It was just very difficult for us, and we tried to meet halfway, and it was obvious that wasn't going to happen.

A New Jersey mother once featured on the reality show "Wife Swap" has been accused of stabbing her husband.

Jamie Czerniawski tells The New York Post it was self-defense. Her husband's lawyer denies that, the Associated Press reports.

She is charged in Monmouth County with aggravated assault and is free on $75,000 bail.

According to court papers, the former Miss Teen New Jersey used a kitchen knife to slash her husband, Charles, in their Freehold home on Memorial Day weekend.

She tells the newspaper that her husband became jealous when she got a phone call from a mutual male friend.

The couple were featured on "Wife Swap" in 2006. The suspect swapped places with a mom from Arizona who is a tattooed freak show performer.