Your morning adorable: Cat and rabbit nap together
We are unabashed suckers for inter-species animal friendships, so our hearts swelled when we saw YouTube user vasherbros' video of a cat and a rabbit who have snuggled up together for a nap. Our...
View ArticleBob Arum's son missing in the Cascade mountains
A search party is looking for boxing promoter Bob Arum's son, who went missing in the Cascade mountains. John Arum, a 49-year-old environmental lawyer, was supposed to have returned home Sunday after...
View ArticleBear camp gets too crowded -- so stocks surge
The short explanation for Wednesday’s big stock market rally: too many bears, too few bulls. Thickening gloom over the economy last month had driven many professional and individual investors to give...
View ArticleU.S. Open: Victoria Azarenka still hospitalized after collapse
Tenth-seeded Victoria Azarenka, who collapsed during her match against Gisela Dulko Wednesday, is still at a local hospital according to U.S. Open tournament referee Brian Earley. Earley said...
View ArticleWynn bans Paris Hilton from resorts, fires Cy Waits [poll]
Paris Hilton is no longer welcome at the Wynn or Encore resorts, a Wynn spokeswoman said Tuesday, and the socialite's nightclub-entrepreneur boyfriend Cy Waits has been ditched as a managing partner...
View ArticleApple unveils Ping, a social network for iTunes
From a music lover's perspective, the most interesting announcement to arrive during this morning's fall Apple presentation was the unveiling of Ping, a social network that's part of the dominant...
View ArticleUpdate: Nico, the deaf shelter dog whose photo inspired online rescue...
Last year, guest blogger Janet Kinosian shared the story of Nico, a shelter dog who was rescued through the efforts of Southern California rescuers and a community of animal-loving Facebook users....
View ArticleFox snags Jamie Foxx sketch comedy series
Jamie Foxx is returning to Fox , but not as a permanent judge for "American Idol," as rumored. The network has picked up a half-hour sketch comedy series for midseason with the Academy Award-winning...
View ArticleVanity Fair issues annual hot-or-not list of media executives
Time to put away the flowers, booze and pleading phone calls to Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter. The magazine's annual list of the most powerful in entertainment, technology, finance and culture,...
View ArticleMusic review: Bramwell Tovey not done yet at the Hollywood Bowl
Bramwell Tovey is back. On Tuesday night, the nimble British conductor returned to his summer haunt of three years and began his final two-week stint as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's principal guest...
View ArticleU.S. border officer gets 20 years for corruption, smuggling drugs
A former U.S. Customs employee is headed to federal prison for 20 years after being convicted of corruption and smuggling charges in El Paso, Texas. Martha Alicia Garnica, 43, a former Customs and...
View ArticleNew Angels prospect Loek Van Mil is a tall order; Bulger, Stokes activated
The Angels and Twins completed the trade Friday that sent closer Brian Fuentes to Minnesota, with the Angels acquiring 7-foot-1 right-hander Loek Van Mil on Wednesday as the player to be named. Van...
View ArticlePacquiao says he'll 'fight anybody'
Manny Pacquiao has made his own thoughts clear on the legitimacy of Antonio Margarito's claim that he knew nothing about his hand wraps being loaded with plaster inserts in his 2009 date against Shane...
View ArticleCee-Lo releases video to unprintably titled viral smash
Cee-Lo Green has a knack for releasing songs that go viral, which may be the result of writing tunes with hooks centered on acronyms derived from the phrase "fornication under consent of the king."...
View ArticleU.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary offers boating skills and seamanship course
The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is offering an eight-week course on boating skills and seamanship beginning Tuesday at the Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina del Rey. Useful to both novice and experienced...
View ArticleMayor Villaraigosa: 'Go home, Texas oil companies!'
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Tuesday rebuked Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp., which operate refineries in Wilmington, for bankrolling a measure that would effectively scuttle the state's efforts...
View ArticleHarvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman: It's a baby girl!
Congratulations to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and his designing wife Georgina Chapman -- the power couple welcomed their daughter, India Pearl, on Sunday. A rep for the couple confirmed the news to...
View ArticleDeadline for Kovalchuk ruling extended to Friday
Prolonging a saga that has consumed all of the summer, the NHL and the NHL Players Assn. said Wednesday they had agreed to a two-day extension for the league's deadline to approve the validity of Ilya...
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