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Minn. man get jail in ex-prep wrestling star death
A rural Kenyon man has been sentenced to a year in jail for a drunken driving crash that killed a former high school wrestling star. Twenty-year-old Chad Lexvold will be on probation for 10 years. The judge also ordered Lexvold to give at least three talks a year about the ...
Slow start for Howard Stern
Howard Stern isn't the King of Prime-Time TV. At least not yet. The Nielsen company said that Stern's debut last week as a panelist on NBC's "America's Got Talent" drew 10.5 million viewers on Monday and 10.6 million viewers on Tuesday. That's down sharply from the 15.3 million viewers who ...
Sales for 'Fifty Shades' trilogy top 10 million
The heat is on: Sales for E.L. James' "Fifty Shades" trilogy are at 10 million and counting, making it among the fastest-selling series of all time. The explicit sensation has topped charts practically from the moment Vintage Books released it in early April. Reprints have exceeded 900,000 copies in a ...
New ad zapper has TV networks worried about sales
The maker of a new DVR that lets consumers zap away broadcast TV commercials at the touch of a button suggested Tuesday that the networks are being short-sighted in opposing the technology. The Dish Network, which has offered its new Auto Hop feature on new digital video recorders since March, ...
Loach breaks out the kilts at Cannes
British director Ken Loach's new movie "The Angels' Share" is set in Scotland — the perfect excuse to bring out the kilts in Cannes. With a Scottish cast, it tells the tale of a young unemployed trouble-maker who finds redemption through whisky — a result of his fine palate, not ...
Pearl Jam, Skrillex to perform at US festival
Pearl Jam, Skrillex and D'Angelo are among the performers scheduled to take the stage at the Made In America music festival Jay-Z is curating in Philadelphia in September. Jay-Z will also perform, as will Janelle Monae, Passion Pit, Odd Future, Santigold, Afrojack, Calvin Harris and Rick Ross and his Maybach ...
Royals to flavor Legends & Celebrity Softball Game
The Royals will lend some hometown flavor to the Legends & Celebrity Softball Game during All-Star Weekend at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. Hall of Fame third baseman George Brett, Bo Jackson and Mike Sweeney are among the former Royals players on the roster for the six-inning game, which ...
Pearl Jam, Skrillex to perform at Philly festival
Pearl Jam, Skrillex and D'Angelo are among the performers scheduled to take the stage at the Made In America music festival Jay-Z is curating in Philadelphia in September. Jay-Z will also perform, as will Janelle Monae, Passion Pit, Odd Future, Santigold, Afrojack, Calvin Harris and Rick Ross and his Maybach ...
Joplin remembers deadly tornado, 1 year later
A year after a massive tornado tore through Joplin, reminders of the storm's fury are plentiful — from the glaring absence of century-old trees in the city's central neighborhoods to the ghostly shell of St. John's Regional Medical Center. Residents, hospital workers and politicians gathered across the disaster zone Tuesday ...
Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote, dies at 96
Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the introduction of hundreds of channels and viewing technologies it has become a necessity. Just ask anyone who's lost a remote. Polley ...
Clemens juror: 'Why should we believe you?'
Among the 29 questions the Roger Clemens jury wanted to ask the pitcher's chief accuser, Brian McNamee, one cut to the heart of the case. "Why should we believe you when you have shown so many inconsistencies in your testimonies?" "I won't ask that," U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton declared ...
News Summary: Shanghai cartoon studio seeks edge
COMPETITIVE MARKET: The Chinese cartoon market is dominated by state media companies, and now Kungfu Panda creator DreamWorks Animation SKG and other big cartoon giants are launching their own local studios in China. GLOBAL REACH: High on the national entertainment agenda is breaking into a huge global industry. China has ...
Review: 'Cliff Walk' is chilling murder mystery
"Cliff Walk" (Forge Books), by Bruce DeSilva: In his Edgar Award-winning first novel, "Rogue Island," published in 2010, retired AP writing coach Bruce DeSilva introduced readers to the affable Liam Mulligan, a crime-solving Rhode Island metro reporter for the fictional Providence Dispatch. Mulligan, an old-school newspaperman with a taste for ...
Marvel Comics plans wedding for gay hero Northstar
Wedding bells will ring this summer for Marvel Comics' first openly gay hero, super speedster Northstar, and his longtime boyfriend. The New York-based publisher said Tuesday that Canadian character Jean-Paul Beaubier will marry his beau, Kyle Jinadu, in the pages of "Astonishing X-Men" No. 51. That's due out June 20. ...
R&B singer Usher claims ex-wife spit at girlfriend
R&B singer Usher Raymond is locked in a legal battle with his ex-wife arising from a custody fight over their two sons. The 33-year-old testified in court on Tuesday that Tameka Foster Raymond spit at and tried to fight his girlfriend during one visit. He alleged that his ex-wife hit ...
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