By LARRY LAGEAP Hockey WriterThe NHL appears headed toward a 48-game season for the second time in two decades. The NHL shortened its 82-game slate to 48 games for the 1994-95 season after a 103-day lockout. A 301-day lockout in
By JASON KEYSERAssociated PressCHICAGOWith no signs of trauma and nothing to raise suspicions, the sudden death of a Chicago man just as he was about to collect nearly $425,000 in lottery winnings was initially ruled a result of natural causes.
By TERRY COLLINSAssociated PressOAKLAND, Calif.A judge ruled on Monday that a man accused of killing seven people at a small Northern California Christian college is not mentally fit for trial. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carrie Panetta temporarily suspended the
(AP) Colo. shooting families listen to police testimonyBy DAN ELLIOTTAssociated PressCENTENNIAL, Colo.The officers struggled to hold back the tears as they recalled the Colorado theater shooting: discovering a 6-year-old girl without a pulse, trying to keep a wounded man from
By JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONDigging in for a fight, President Barack Obama riled Senate Republicans and some Democrats, too, on Monday by nominating former senator and combat veteran Chuck Hagel to lead the Pentagon and anti-terrorism chief John Brennan
By RYAN NAKASHIMAAP Business WriterLAS VEGASThe race to make TVs larger and larger has created a colossal problem for manufacturers: As screens grow, picture quality worsens _ unless the viewer moves farther away from the screen. The issue is playing
(AP) LAS VEGASPeople who don’t want to disturb sleeping family members could use a new product from Panasonic that doesn’t need speakers or even your own ears: wireless bone-conduction headphones. The headphones connect to a TV via the Bluetooth wireless standard
By FABIOLA SANCHEZAssociated PressCARACAS, VenezuelaVenezuela’s government says President Hugo Chavez is in a “stable situation” receiving treatment due to a severe respiratory infection. The government provided its latest update on Monday night. Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said the government is
(AP) Protest over proposed show on prolific rapperBy DAVID BAUDERAP Television WriterPASADENA, Calif.Oxygen television executives weren’t talking Monday as negative attention grew about “All My Babies’ Mamas,” its proposed program featuring a musician who has fathered 11 children with ten
BRETT ZONGKERAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Kennedy Center is reviewing the way it selects artists who receive one of the nation’s highest arts prizes, the Kennedy Center Honors, after a group said Latinos have been largely excluded. The formal review announced Monday includes
David R. Ellis, a former stuntman turned director, has died in South Africa at the age of 60 of unknown causes. Ellis is best known for “Snakes on a Plane,” the 2006 film featuring Samuel L. Jackson and a cabin
Brad Pitt has a message for China – here I come. Not if a long-standing ban on the actor gracing the Communist country’s shores has anything to do with it. The actor’s verified Sina Weibo account sent the message Monday:
By DAVID BAUDERAP Television WriterPASADENA, Calif.Three years after an extortion scandal that led him to bare his infidelities, David Letterman said he sees a psychiatrist once a week to try to be the person that he believed he was. The
The Breitbart News Network routinely illustrates how liberals used Hollywood product to slight the Right and applaud progressive ideals. No need to list examples. Just peruse virtually any page at Big Hollywood and you’ll find more than enough evidence. So
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman once suggested an alien invasion would be a grand way of turning the country’s economic fortunes around. Now, actor Danny Glover thinks the far-left columnist is the right candidate to replace Timothy Geithner as
We all know celebrity apologies can be as phony as a ’50s era science fiction film. Still, when David Letterman offered up a mea culpa for a nasty, sexually charged joke aimed at Sarah Palin’s 14-year-old daughter back in 2009,
(AP) White House, GOP draw red lines in debt debateBy ANNE FLAHERTYAssociated PressWASHINGTONStruggling for the upper hand in the next round of debt talks, Republicans and Democrats this weekend drew lines in the sand they said they’d never cross when
By KRISTEN GELINEAUAssociated PressSYDNEYThey’re starring in a play about a woman reluctant to age and the perils of passing time, but veteran actors James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury say that life in their 80s continues to be exciting thanks
The very first order of business for Current TV’s new owners, Al Jazeera, was to fire former New York governor Eliot Spitzer. Starting today, Spitzer will no longer host his Current TV primetime political talk show, “Viewpoint”. Comedian and regular Current TV guest
The magistrate hearing the case of five men accused of gang-raping and murdering a 23-year-old student in New Delhi ordered on Monday that their first appearance in court take place behind closed doors. A group of lawyers from the Saket
An Algerian computer hacker wanted by the FBI for allegedly stealing millions of dollars from American banks to fund a lavish lifestyle has been arrested in Bangkok, Thai police said Monday. Hamza Bendelladj, 24, appeared unruffled by his looming extradition
The Egyptian army foiled a bid early Monday to attack a Coptic church in the Rafah border town with Gaza as the minority Christian community began celebrating its Christmas, MENA news agency reported. Another car carrying masked men sped away
(AP) Clinton scheduled to return to work MondayWASHINGTONThe State Department says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will return to work Monday, a little over a week after she was hospitalized with a blood clot in her head. The department
(AP) Obama taps Hagel for Pentagon, Brennan for CIABy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, two potentially
By DAVID BAUDERAP Television WriterPASADENA, Calif.NBC executives said Sunday they are conscious about the amount of violence they air in the wake of real-life tragedies like the Connecticut school shooting, but have made no changes in what has gone on
