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Cable TV standoffs leave consumers to pay more for programming, risk losing shows
DAVE CARPENTER - January 3, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) Many questions remain for cable TV viewers nationwide even after Fox and Time Warner Cable settled their noisy spat with a New Year's Day agreement. The deal was good news for more than 6 million Time Warner customers in the short term: College bowl and National Football...
Rap producer Shawty Redd in jail, accused of killing man at his home near Atlanta
By Associated Press - January 2, 2010
McDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) Music producer Demetrius Lee Stewart, known as Shawty Redd, is being held in a suburban Atlanta jail on a murder charge. Henry County Police Capt. Jason Bolton says Stewart was arrested Friday morning. Stewart is accused of shooting 35-year-old Damon...
Muslims, Hindus crank up volume in stereotype-smashing 'Taqwacore' punk rock bands
RUSSELL CONTRERAS - January 3, 2010
WAYLAND, Mass. (AP) Artwork from the Punjab state of India decorates the Ray family home. A Johann Sebastian Bach statue sits on a piano. But in the basement cluttered with wires, old concert fliers and drawings 25-year-old Arjun Ray is fighting distortion from his electric guitar....
Elton John says he's helping Eminem fight drug problems; says rapper doing well
By Associated Press - January 2, 2010
LONDON (AP) Elton John says he has been helping American rapper Eminen fight drug problems for more than a year. John says Eminem is succeeding in his well-publicized battle against substance abuse. John told BBC Radio Saturday that as a recovered drug abuser he is happy...
Kathy Griffin making vulgarity on CNN a New Year's Eve tradition with 2nd quip in 2 years
By Associated Press - January 1, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) For the second straight year, comedian Kathy Griffin ushered in the new year by saying something vulgar on CNN. During the network's live New Year's Eve broadcast from Times Square, Griffin was joking with co-host Anderson Cooper about how to pronounce the first name of "...
'You Light Up My Life' songwriter Joseph Brooks settles lawsuit with married ex-fiancee
JENNIFER PELTZ - January 1, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) The Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life" has ended his six-figure fight with a former fiancee he accused of conning him out of cash and pricey gifts by hiding the fact that she was already married. A Manhattan judge last week approved a settlement...
Reports: Berlusconi working on new love songs as he recovers from attack
By Associated Press - January 1, 2010
ROME (AP) Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has returned to an old passion of his while recovering from last month's attack at a rally: writing Neapolitan love songs, news reports said. Berlusconi also made his first public appearance since the Dec. 13 attack, going to a shopping mall...
Police say man who appeared on 'Deadliest Catch' TV show arrested in Oregon bank robbery case
By Associated Press - January 1, 2010
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Police say a man who appeared in the Discovery Channel show "Deadliest Catch" is wanted for three bank robberies in Oregon and has been arrested in Illinois. Police in East Peoria, Ill., say they arrested 23-year-old Joshua Tel Warner early Thursday on the Oregon bank robbery...
Diddy's clothing line sues over lingering scaffold at flagship store on NYC's Fifth Avenue
By Associated Press - December 31, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) The company behind Sean "Diddy" Combs' clothing line says it has a looming problem at its flagship New York City store a scaffold that has been hanging over the shop for more than three years. The company behind the rap impresario's Sean John label sued its Manhattan...
Irish singer Van Morrison blames Web hacker for false claim of new baby
SANDY COHEN - January 1, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) Reclusive Irish singer Van Morrison said Thursday that a computer hacker planted a false report on his Web site claiming he had fathered a fourth child at the age of 64 with a new partner. The false report was disseminated Monday by a Los Angeles-based publicist for...
