His beating stunned the nation, left Los Angeles smoldering and helped reshape race relations and police tactics. And in a quavering voice on national television, Rodney King pleaded for peace while the city burned. More »Rodney King, whose beating led to LA riots, dies
Producers of an electronic music party in Las Vegas don't think the deaths of two revelers last week will threaten the event's future there. More »2 Electric Daisy Carnival revelers die in Vegas
Investigators combed through the wreckage of a Toronto stage Sunday to determine what caused the structure to come crashing down ahead of a Radiohead concert, killing the band's drum technician and injuring three other crew members. More »Radiohead drum technician killed in stage collapse
Mitt Romney in an interview aired Sunday repeatedly refused to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. He claimed Obama's decision was political, while senior White House adviser David Plouffe said the move wasn't motivated by politics. More »Romney won't say he'll overturn immigration order
Zoo animals remain hot at the box office. Singing stars and Adam Sandler are not. More »'Madagascar 3' stampedes, 'Rock,' Sandler stumble
Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, was found at the bottom of his swimming pool early Sunday and later pronounced dead. He was 47. More »Rodney King, key figure in LA riots, dies at 47
Zoo animals remain hot at the box office. Singing stars and Adam Sandler are not. More »'Madagascar 3' stampedes, 'Rock,' Sandler flop
It took 20 years but the group Bruce Springsteen once praised as being almost as good as a lousy garage band is finally calling it quits. More »Rock Bottom Remainders saying goodbye to lit-rock
When John Edwards faced the prospect of an indictment that could put him behind bars, he calmly told his mistress he would probably wind up in a low-security prison in Virginia more like a country club than a jail. She quickly told him she and their daughter would move there to be near him if that happened. More »Rielle Hunter's memoir details affair, aftermath
Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, died Sunday. He was 47. More »Rodney King, key figure in LA riots, dead at 47
Canadian police say the man killed in a stage collapse hours before a Radiohead concert was British. More »Man killed in Radiohead stage collapse was British
Police say a former television screenwriter was arrested after punching his poodle in the face so hard that it died of a brain injury. More »Former TV writer fatally punches poodle in face
Students more accustomed to computer screens than manual typewriters are getting a chance to sit at author Joseph Heller's stained wooden desk and type on the battered Smith-Corona he used to compose his acclaimed novel "Catch-22." More »SC library shows 'Catch-22' author's writing tools
Police have shut down a New York City nightclub where singer Chris Brown and rapper Drake's entourage got into a bottle-throwing brawl. More »NYC club where Chris Brown, Drake fought is closed
"Tell President Obama: Stop the spending," screams an ad running during the broadcast of NBC's "Today" show in central Virginia. At a break during ABC's "The View," Mitt Romney is praised in a different spot for his "strong leadership." More »Heavy focus on news shows in White House race ads
Noah Wyle is confronting an alien invasion, the death of his wife and the potential annihilation of the human species in "Falling Skies." More »Alien fighter Noah Wyle back in 'Falling Skies'
A massive stage collapse hours before a Radiohead concert was to begin left one person dead and three others injured, officials said. More »Stage collapses before Radiohead concert; 1 dead
After Mark K. Shriver's father died last year, he kept thinking of the words people used so consistently to describe the affable public servant known as "Sarge." More »Mark Shriver explores what made 'Sarge' a good man
Noah Wyle is confronting an alien invasion, the death of his wife and the potential annihilation of the human species in "Falling Skies." More »Alien fighter Noah Wyler back in 'Falling Skies'
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation is accepting applications for hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants available for education and community-based programs that support Louisiana's music, culture and heritage. More »Grants to fund programs in art, music education
San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker says he suffered a scratched retina on one of his eyes during a New York City nightclub brawl involving singer Chris Brown and members of hip-hop star Drake's entourage. More »Spurs PG Tony Parker hurt in Drake-Brown brawl
Kate Winslet has been honored by Queen Elizabeth II for her titanic contribution to the arts. More »Kate Winslet, Kenneth Branagh get royal honors
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John Travolta will soon be back on the big screen, but weeks of negative headlines have focused on his personal life and not on the return of one of Hollywood's top stars. More »Film returns Travolta to spotlight, amid bad press
In an elegant white tent at her oceanfront Malibu compound, Barbra Streisand sang and former President Bill Clinton spoke to a crowd gathered to raise funds for women's heart health. More »Streisand opens her home for women's heart health
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