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Drowning, drugs killed Whitney Houston

Last updated Friday, March 23, 2012 - 7:08am

LOS ANGELES — Drugs took many things from Whitney Houston — her pristine voice, clean image and her career — and coroner’s officials revealed Thursday that cocaine also played a role in the Grammy winner’s death in the bathtub of a luxury hotel nearly six weeks ago.

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Mistrial declared in 'Housewives' firing case

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 2:33pm

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Whitney Houston was underwater in tub

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 7:41am

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Whitney Houston was underwater and apparently unconscious when she was pulled from a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub, and she had prescription drugs in her room, authorities said Monday.

Two days after her death, Houston's body was taken to a small, Los Angeles-area airport and flown to New Jersey, where her family was making arrangements for a funeral at the end of the week.

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Lindsay Lohan doing well on probation

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 4:57pm

LOS ANGELES -- Lindsay Lohan received her second favorable probation report in a row and a judge told the actress that she appears to be on track to complete a strict program by the end of March.

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FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011 file photo, newlyweds Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries attend a party thrown in their honor at Capitale in New York. Humphries filed for an annulment of the couple's 72-day marriage on Thursday in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

Kim Kardashian's husband says mariage was a fraud, seeks annulment

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 2, 2011 - 11:15am

LOS ANGELES -- NBA player Kris Humphries asked a judge Thursday to annul his 10-week, highly publicized marriage to Kim Kardashian on the basis that it was fraudulent.

The filing comes roughly a month after Kardashian filed for divorce and apologized to fans.

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Kim Kardashian's husband seeks annulment

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 6:17pm

LOS ANGELES -- NBA player Kris Humphries asked a judge Thursday to annul his 10-week, highly publicized marriage to Kim Kardashian on the basis that it was fraudulent.

The filing comes roughly a month after Kardashian filed for divorce and apologized to fans. Humphries is a former Utah Jazz player.

Humphries' petition did not offer any details to support his contention that the marriage was a fraud, which a judge would have to determine is true for the marriage to be completely nullified.

Kardashian's attorney Laura Wasser declined to comment on Humphries' filing.

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Michael Jackson's doctor sentenced to 4 years

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 1:00pm

LOS ANGELES -- The doctor convicted in the overdose death of Michael Jackson was sentenced to the maximum four years behind bars Tuesday by a judge who denounced him as a reckless physician whose actions were a "disgrace to the medical profession."

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FILE - In this 1980 file photo, actor Robert Wagner appears with actress Natalie Wood. Los Angeles sheriff's homicide detectives are taking another look at Wood's 1981 drowning death based on new information, officials announced Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011. A yacht captain said on national TV Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, that he lied to investigators about Natalie Wood's mysterious death 30 years ago and blames the actress' husband at the time, Wagner, for her drowning in the ocean off Southern California. (AP Photo, File)

Captain now says Robert Wagner responsible for Natalie Wood death

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 18, 2011 - 11:16am

LOS ANGELES — A yacht captain said on national TV Friday that he lied to investigators about Natalie Wood’s mysterious death 30 years ago and blames the actress’ husband at the time, Robert Wagner, for her drowning in the ocean off Southern California.

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(The Associated Press) In this framegrab made from a courtroom television pool feed, Dr. Conrad Murray is remanded into custody after the jury returned with a guilty verdict in his involuntary manslaughter trial, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 in a Los Angeles. Murray was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star.

Guilty verdict for Jackson doctor ends latest saga

Anthony McCartney, Linda Deutsch The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 8:36am

LOS ANGELES — The single word, “Guilty,” brought a muffled shriek in the gallery of the packed courtroom and tears from Michael Jackson’s family, but no reaction from the doctor convicted of supplying the King of Pop with the drug he craved for sleep.

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Kim Kardashian files for divorce from ex-Jazzman Humphries after 10 weeks

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 2:09pm

LOS ANGELES -- Just 10 weeks after her star-studded, made-for-TV wedding, reality starlet Kim Kardashian filed for divorce Monday from NBA player Kris Humphries, citing irreconcilable differences.

"I hope everyone understands this was not an easy decision," said the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star in a statement. "I had hoped this marriage was forever but sometimes things don't work out as planned."

The filing in Los Angeles County Superior Court provided few details, other than to state the couple have a prenuptial agreement that will dictate how they divide up their assets. Kardashian is asking that both sides pay their own attorneys' costs and that a judge terminate Humphries' rights to spousal support.

Kardashian, 31, and Humphries, 26, a former Utah Jazz player, were wed Aug. 20 at a lavish private estate near Santa Barbara, Calif. It was the first marriage for Humphries, who last played for the NBA's New Jersey Nets, and the second for Kardashian, who was married to music producer Damon Thomas from 2000 to 2004.

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Prosecutors show lineup of Jackson doctor's drugs

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 11:39am

LOS ANGELES -- The bottles of medicine were lined up in two jagged rows on the edge of the prosecution table at the end of the seventh day of the trial against the doctor charged in connection with Michael Jackson's death.

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'I am asleep' Jackson heard in slurring audio

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 3:13pm

LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors played a recording Wednesday in which Michael Jackson is heard discussing his plans to build a hospital for children in a rambling, slurred conversation with the doctor charged in his death roughly six weeks before the entertainer died.

The recording was significantly longer than the clip played for jurors in opening statements last week. It ends ominously, with defendant Dr. Conrad Murray heard asking Jackson whether he was OK after his voice trailed off.

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(IRFAN KHAN/The Associated Press) In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s personal physician, appears in Los Angeles Superior Court where Murray pleaded not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s 2009 death. Inside the compact, wood-paneled courtroom that will soon host the trial of Michael Jackson’s personal physician, many of the tabloid-worthy elements of the singer’s life will go unspoken.

Jury to get overview of case against Jackson doc

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 9:41am

LOS ANGELES — The trial of the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death opens Tuesday with a bit of star power and the one thing the King of Pop enjoyed throughout his life — a worldwide audience.

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In this file photo Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner arrive for the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. The couple announced that they are expecting another child. (Mark J. Terrill/The Associated Press file)

Affleck, Garner expecting 3rd child

Anthony McCartney The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 11:26am

LOS ANGELES -- Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's family is growing -- representatives for the actors say the couple are expecting their third child.

A one-sentence statement released Monday says the actors are "thrilled" to have another baby on the way. The couple has two daughters, 5-year-old Violet and 2-year-old Seraphina Elizabeth Rose Affleck.

No other details were released.

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Lindsay Lohan exits a probation hearing at LAX Courthouse, Thursday, June 23, 2011, in Los Angeles. Lohan's court appearance related to her drunken driving case, not a misdemeanor theft case the actress resolved with a no-contest plea in May. (Chris Pizzello/The Associated Press)

Judge tells Lohan: No more parties at house

Anthony McCartney, The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 4:06pm

LOS ANGELES -- The house party is over for Lindsay Lohan, at least while she's on house arrest.

Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner chided Lohan for having rooftop parties at her home while serving house arrest on a probation violation but said the actress hadn't violated any other rules.

"If you are guilty of some violation of your probation, I don't see it," Sautner said. "What you are guilty of is extremely poor judgment."

Lohan tearfully hugged her attorney, Shawn Holley, after the hearing.

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