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Wearing powder blue pants and a plaid fedora, 84-year-old Orval “Hoppy” Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the center of one of the nation’s largest and most polluted toxic-waste sites.

A man led Dallas County constables on a harrowing high-speed chase across several Dallas-area freeways Monday afternoon. INSIDE: Video and photo gallery

The story starts with talent. Not the sort of talent that wins the lead in the school musical, or even the sort that wins American Idol . This is vanishing-point talent, so far to the right of the bell curve that it needs its own sheet of graph paper.

The BET Awards became the official Michael Jackson TV celebration on Sunday, with joyous tributes to the King of Pop from a New Edition medley of Jackson 5 songs to host Jamie Foxx’s tender monologue delivered in that classic red leather zipper jacket and white glove.

Billy Mays, the prominent face and boastful voice behind some of television’s biggest products, was found dead in his Florida home on Sunday morning. The Tampa Police Department…

Disney Channel rolled out their newest original movie tonight (June 26), the Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez fronted Princess Protection Program. Although Neon Limelight is all about the music, we couldn’t help catching the latest DCOM and sharing our view. The fact that both girls are also singers completely justifies us in doing this as […]

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Farrah Fawcett, David Carradine, and Ed McMahon all just died. Oh, and Michael Jackson. Oh, and the Governor of South Carolina admitted to cheating on his wife. As did Senator John Ensign. And…

Michael Jackson , one the best-selling and most controversial recording artists of all time, died Thursday, ABC News has confirmed. The Los Angeles Fire Department was called to Jackson’s residence at 12:26 p.m. P.T., according to the Los Angeles Times.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s Argentine firecracker was indentified by the Buenos Aires press Thursday as Maria Belen Shapur, a 43-year-old divorcee and high-powered international businesswoman.