StarPulse.com – Whitney Houston‘s tour promoter has offered an explanation for the singer’s faltering voice – the star refuses to quit smoking.
The R&B superstar took her Nothing But Love shows to Australia this month , …

NEW YORK (AP) – Grammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne is facing up to a year in jail in a New York City gun case this week.
It isn’t clear where he’ll serve his time if he’s sentenced …

PITTSBURGH — With her boyfriend in severe abdominal pain, Sharon Edge called 911 for an ambulance in the early morning hours of Feb. 6. Heavy snow was falling — so heavy it would all …

BALTIMORE — A man wrongly released from a Baltimore prison Thursday was taken into custody Friday morning by authorities in Martinsburg, W.Va.
Meanwhile, a second man whose name and identity were used by the suspect — …

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26 (UPI) — A silicone breast implant saved the life of a California woman who was shot in the chest by a gunman, a doctor says.
The gunman aimed his weapon directly at …

The crumbling of David Paterson‘s accidental governorship comes as no surprise to former top aides, who say Paterson loves the trappings of power, but not the work, according to a report in the New York …

NEW YORK (AP) – Jazz legend Herbie Hancock will be feted at a belated 70th birthday bash at Carnegie Hall that will highlight the revival of a major summer jazz festival in the Big Apple.
The …

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Two events were being held in western Massachusetts this weekend to mark the 142nd birthday of native son and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Center was …

Veteran actor and comedian Bill Cosby recently lost his temper with a publicist.
Mr. Jello Pudding Pops Cosby, while conducting an interview to promoting the Playboy Jazz festival, was asked by The Associated Press about parenting …

A former NBA player, Alvin Robertson, has been charged with child sex trafficking after his alleged involvement in kidnapping a minor for illegal sexual transactions.
Robertson played with the San Antonio Spurs, Milwaukee Bucks, …

SAN DIEGO — Anger boiled over Friday on the University of California, San Diego, campus, where students took over the chancellor’s office to protest the hanging of a noose in a campus library.
Students wearing handkerchiefs …

(CNN) — Retired basketball icon Michael Jordan bought a majority share of the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats, officials said Saturday.
Jordan, who was already a minority owner of the team, headed a group that bought a majority …

Dr. Amy Bishop, 44, the biology professor charged with killing three University of Alabama – Huntsville colleagues and wounding three others has been suspended without pay and will be fired from her $83,000-a-year job.
Bishop killed …

AHN – Los Angeles, CA, United States (CNS) – Harpo Productions and ABC are bringing Oprah back for another year to celebrate the 82nd year of the Annual Academy Awards.
“The Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special” …

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — University of Missouri police are investigating after someone scattered cotton balls outside the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center on the Columbia campus.
Students and staff discovered the cotton balls littering the grass and …

(CNN) — Marie Osmond‘s 18-year-old son Michael Blosil has died, a family spokesman said Saturday.
“My family and I are devastated and in deep shock by the tragic loss of our dear Michael and ask …

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Tyler Perry will be among the presenters at this year’s Oscars.
His appearance at the 82nd Academy Awards will be his first ever on the show.
Perry’s films include “Diary of a …

NEW YORK (AP) — Who you gonna believe?
Whitney Houston — or what you’ve seen about her concerts on YouTube?
Houston says don’t fall for the stuff you’ve been seeing online — that her tour …

DETROIT (AP) — In the heart of the largest concentration of Muslims in the U.S., the Detroit Institute of Arts opens its new permanent gallery of Islamic art.
The opening comes as several museums worldwide broaden …

CHALMETTE, La. (AP) — The rapper Juvenile and his music producer have been arrested for misdemeanor possession of marijuana after neighbors told police they could smell pot coming from a house being used as a …