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Sarah Palin’s new memoir describes heart-wrenching anguish about her teen daughter’s pregnancy playing out before a national audience. But the 413-page tome doesn’t contain a single reference to the father of her grandson, soon-to-be Playgirl model Levi Johnston.

Part history project, part fine art, the Vet Art Project is like nothing Algonquin artist Jeanine Hill-Soldner has ever done before.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Morgan Freeman has settled a lawsuit related to a 2008 car accident that seriously injured him and a passenger, according to court records posted Thursday. Terms of the settlement were not released.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – Actor Ethan Hawke on Saturday praised Madonna for her boldness in speaking out against discrimination against Gypsies, words that provoked boos from thousands of fans at her concert in Romania.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A judge ordered Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend and two doctors to stand trial on charges of illegally funneling prescription drugs to the former Playboy model.

Nadia Czekajewski got braces on her teeth when she was 8. Now she’s in third grade, turning 9, and “she’ll be done before she begins fourth grade,” said her father, Tomasz Czekajewski.

Short of someone inventing Smell-o-Vision before Wednesday’s global rollout of the feature documentary “Michael Jackson’s This Is It,” fans will never get to know one of the most visceral aspects of working with the King of Pop.

For the past two Halloweens, Julie Bonn Heath has gotten into a few battles with her son. It wasn’t that he was eating too much candy – he was just eating the wrong kind.

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WASHINGTON – Bill Cosby still thinks America is funny – like the name-calling over health care and the way we drink so much water from plastic bottles that could be toxic – even though he says the nation has some serious problems it needs to tackle.

Carlee Smith is hardly in the no-fun category.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The final days of celebrity model Anna Nicole Smith were described in court Tuesday as being marked by illness and confusion.

So, you know, it is what it is, but Americans are totally annoyed by the use of “whatever” in conversations.

Mattel has launched a new line of black Barbie dolls with fuller lips, a wider nose and more pronounced cheek bones — a far cry from Christie, Barbie's black friend who debuted in the 1960s and was essentially a white doll painted brown.

A jogger has to alter his route because of security barricades. But a local barber shop is enjoying a tourism boom. And neighborhood residents have gained a reason to brag to friends – all thanks to President Barack Obama.

Nik Spayne wakes just before 6 a.m. on school days at his suburban Elgin home in time to take an hourlong train ride and a bus to the Chicago Academy for the Arts.

DALLAS (AP) – Actor Randy Quaid was given a ride from a small West Texas jail to get bail money from a bank after the actor and his wife were arrested for allegedly skipping out on a $10,000 California hotel bill, said the sheriff who drove him.

NEW YORK (AP) – Annie Leibovitz’s artsy, provocative portraits of celebrities regularly grace the covers of Vanity Fair and Vogue, images that have made her as famous as her subjects and earned her millions.

Just in time for an especially crowded fall, business seems to be picking up for books.

Laura Caldwell’s summer mystery trilogy might be complete, but the story’s not over.

NEW YORK (AP) – Author Dominick Dunne, who told stories of shocking crimes among the rich and famous through his magazine articles and best-selling novels such as “The Two Mrs. Grenvilles,” died Wednesday in his home at age 83.