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Brooks & Dunn come full circle during last concert together in Nashville

Brooks & Dunn come full circle during last concert together in Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The first song Brooks & Dunn ever sang together has become their last. The country music duo closed out a 20-year career at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Thursday night with t...

Ne-Yo says T.I. 'makes a lot of poor decisions'; has had enough chances

Ne-Yo says T.I. 'makes a lot of poor decisions'; has had enough chances

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Ne-Yo says T.I. has had many chances — and it's time he gets his act together. Ne-Yo told the Associated Press the fellow performer makes a lot of poor decisions when it com...

Snoop Dogg debuts as 1st hip-hop artist to be featured in hit video game 'Rock Band'

Snoop Dogg debuts as 1st hip-hop artist to be featured in hit video game 'Rock Band'

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Rap and rock will collide once again — this time in a video game. Fans of the hit game "Rock Band" will get a chance to jam to some hip-hop, thanks to Snoop Dogg. He's the fir...

Chicago author Sara Paretsky publishes 14th mystery with V.I. Warshawski

Chicago author Sara Paretsky publishes 14th mystery with V.I. Warshawski

CHICAGO - Sara Paretsky's latest installment in her series about feisty, female private detective V.I. Warshawski opens with the heroine outside a Chicago nightclub, the bloody body of a woman who was...

Hotel workers launch strike at Toronto's Hyatt Regency

Hotel workers launch strike at Toronto's Hyatt Regency

TORONTO - Hotel workers at the Hyatt Regency, home of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, have started a one-day walkout. Their union, UNITE HERE, says the walkout began after talks ...

Funk band War tells PepsiCo they can't be friends

Funk band War tells PepsiCo they can't be friends

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Members of the original funk band War say they can't be friends with PepsiCo. They're suing the soft drink maker for more than $10 million, saying it did not negotiate with them to...

After drug arrest, questions emerge over whether TI will return to music charts

After drug arrest, questions emerge over whether TI will return to music charts

After finishing a sentence for weapons charges earlier this year, T.I. was poised to have the comeback of the fall. The multiplatinum rapper starred in the nation's No. 1 movie, recently married hi...

Appeals court sets hearing for Joe Jackson's appeal involving Michael's estate

Appeals court sets hearing for Joe Jackson's appeal involving Michael's estate

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - An appeals court has scheduled a hearing for lawyers for the father of Michael Jackson to argue that he deserves a role in decisions involving his son's multimillion dollar estat...

Oprah's Book Club choosing new book Sept. 17, exactly 14 years after first book was announced

Oprah's Book Club choosing new book Sept. 17, exactly 14 years after first book was announced

CHICAGO - The first week of the final season of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will include a selection for Oprah's Book Club. A Harpo spokeswoman said Thursday that Winfrey will announce her 64th and la...

Box Office Preview: 'Machete'and 'The American' expected to win holiday weekend

Box Office Preview: 'Machete'and 'The American' expected to win holiday weekend

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Twentieth Century Fox's "Machete" is set to slice up the competition as director Robert Rodriguez's star-studded extravaganza will likely dominate the weekend with a Friday throu...