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Janet Jackson reschedules shows to be with family
NEW YORK (AP) — Janet Jackson is rescheduling part of her Australian tour so she can support her family during the trial of the doctor accused of involuntary manslaughter in her brother Michael’s death. Dr. Conrad Murray is on trial in Los Angeles. He is accused of being negligent in his care of the superstar, [...]
Longtime CBS correspondent Robert Pierpoint dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — CBS News correspondent Robert C. Pierpoint — who covered six presidents, the Korean War, the Kennedy assassination and the Iranian hostage crisis in a career that spanned more than four decades — died Saturday in California, his daughter said. He was 86. Pierpoint, who retired in 1990, died of complications from [...]
Tintin has world premiere in his hometown
BRUSSELS (AP) — Tintin came home to Belgium on Saturday for the world premiere of Steven Spielberg‘s “The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn.” If the proverbial intrepid reporter was more than a cartoon and movie character, he would have been pushing and shoving amid all the other hometown reporters lining the red carpet. [...]
Edmundo Ros, who took Latin sound to London, dies
LONDON (AP) — He introduced wartime Britain to the percussive rhythm of the rumba, so capturing the nation’s imagination that its young princess chose his songs for her public dancing debut. Bandleader Edmundo Ros, 100, died peacefully in his sleep, his family said Saturday. Born in Trinidad to a Venezuelan mother and a Scottish father, [...]
Pete Seeger and pals attend NYC protest action
NEW YORK (AP) — Folk music legend Pete Seeger joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest Friday night, replacing his banjo with two canes as he marched with throngs of people in New York City‘s tony Upper West Side past banks and shiny department stores. The 92-year-old Seeger, accompanied by musician-grandson Tao Rodriguez Seeger, composer [...]
British lawmaker grills News. Corp CEO at event
LOS ANGELES (AP) — British lawmaker Tom Watson grilled News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch about covert surveillance techniques by company employees as News Corp. held its first shareholders meeting following a phone-hacking scandal. More than 100 people demonstrated Friday outside the annual meeting on the lot of News Corp.’s Fox Studios. Watson asked Murdoch whether [...]
Lohan late to Day 1 of community service at morgue
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan arrived late to her first day of community service at the county morgue Thursday and was turned away, another hiccup in the actress’ effort to prove to a judge that she is complying with terms of her probation. Lohan had been told to arrive at 8 a.m. for an [...]
5 great ‘Sesame Street’ celebrity appearances
[fivefilters.org: unable to retrieve full-text content] The documentary “Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey” opens this week, about every toddler’s favorite red monster and the man who brings him to life, Kevin Clash.
French president, wife welcome baby girl Giulia
PARIS (AP) — Proud papa Nicolas Sarkozy, the first French president to have a baby in office, says he and wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy feel “a very profound happiness” over the birth of their baby girl — the couple’s first child together. Mother and daughter, he added, are doing very well. After a day of keeping [...]
French president, wife welcome baby girl Giulia
PARIS (AP) — Proud papa Nicolas Sarkozy, the first French president to have a baby in office, says he and wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy feel “a very profound happiness” over the birth of their baby girl — the couple’s first child together. Mother and daughter, he added, are doing very well. After a day of keeping [...]
