Ellen featured an emotional tribute to late actor Heath Ledger on Wednesday’s edition of her Emmy Award-winning talk show. Ellen showcased clips from Heath’s February 2006 appearance on Ellen and dedicated Wednesday’s show to his memory.

CBS 2 in New York is reporting that a source close to the investigation into the death of actor Heath Ledger claims that, in addition to prescription drugs, police also found a $20 bill with narcotic residue in the SoHo apartment where Heath’s body was discovered on Tuesday afternoon. Several drug packets containing an unknown substance were also found. CBS 2 has stressed that it is still unclear if any of these items belonged to the actor.

Whatever killed Hollywood actor Heath Ledger on Tuesday remains a mystery. A Wednesday morning autopsy was inconclusive-meaning it found nothing. It could be up to ten days before the exact cause of his death is discovered, officials say.

A gay hate group is planning to picket the funeral of late actor Heath Ledger. Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas is still hot under the collar about Heath’s almost-Oscar winning role as a gay cowboy in the 2005 film, Brokeback Mountain. The church has announced it’s plans for a Ledger funeral protest in a disgusting bulletin posted on it’s official site. Developing….but please leave us your thoughts on this!

Michelle Williams is “devastated” following the death of her former fiance, Heath Ledger. Heath was found dead in a SOHO Manhattan apartment on Tuesday after a suspected drug overdose. Heath and Michelle are the parents of a two year old girl, Matilda. Currently in en route from Sweden, where she was filming her new film Mammoth, to New York, Michelle was described by witnesses as “…so quiet … not saying a word. She was in her own world.” “Words cannot describe” her pain, says a friend of the former couple.