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"Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to 'Stand and Deliver' He became America's most famous teacher after a 1988 movie portrayed his success at mentoring working-class pupils at Garfield High to pass a rigorous national calculus exam. He died of...

"LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell are new parents — times two. A publicist for the "Ugly Betty" actress says twin daughters Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip were born Dec. 28. They are the couple's first children. Publicist Lewis Kay said in a statement Monday...

"NEW YORK – A family spokeswoman says heiress Martha "Sunny" von Bulow has died after almost three decades in a coma that prosecutors tried to blame on her husband. She was 76. Spokeswoman Maureen Connelly says von Bulow died Saturday at a nursing home in New York City. Von Bulow spent the...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Authorities say a Fort Lauderdale, Fla. student is dead after some type of incident at a high school. City spokesman Ted Lawson confirmed the death Wednesday afternoon. She was found unresponsive in a hallway at Dillard High School around 11 a.m., but police aren't...

DETROIT - Levi Stubbs, the lead singer of the legendary Motown group the Four Tops, whose voice endures in such songs as "I Can't Help Myself" and "Reach Out, I'll Be There," has died. He was 72. Stubbs died today at his home in Detroit, Billboard.com reported. He had suffered a series of...

DALTON, Ga. – An explosion at a small-town law firm in northern Georgia injured at least four people Friday, and authorities were seeking someone they believe may have been involved in the attack. Witnesses said the blast around 10 a.m. blew out the windows at McCamy, Phillips, Tuggle &...

(CNN) -- A medical helicopter crashed into a field in suburban Aurora, Illinois, late Wednesday night, killing all four people on board, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Little is left of a medical helicopter that crashed Wednesday night in Aurora, Illinois, killing four people...

SEATTLE - A father and stepmother were charged with withholding their 14-year-old daughter's food and water so drastically that she weighed only 48 pounds, authorities said. Jon Pomeroy, 43, and his wife, Rebecca Long, 44, could face as much as four years in prison if convicted of criminal...

LOGANSPORT, Ind. - School officials in northern Indiana confirm that four people killed in a collision involving a school bus were children. The Twin Lakes School Corp. says the bus was taking the children home from classes when it crashed Friday. First Sgt. Dave Bursten of the Indiana...

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a vocational school for adults in western Finland on Tuesday before shooting himself, police said. Finnish media reported nine people were killed and the gunman was wounded. The shootings began just before 11 a.m. local time as about 150 students...

Actor Ryan O'Neal and his son, Redmond, were arrested Wednesday at the actor's Malibu, Calif., home for alleged drug possession, a sheriff's spokesman confirms. Link:http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20226642,00.html

LOS ANGELES - LeRoi Moore, saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in an accident on an all-terrain vehicle in June. He was 46. Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_leroi_moore

Has anyone else read this book? I bought it Friday and couldn't put it down. She's the child 'bride' behind the Warren Jeffs trial. I am in awe of her determination and spirit.

MADISON, Wis. -- A surgeon, nurse and pilot were killed when a University of Wisconsin Hospital Med Flight helicopter crashed shortly after dropping off a patient Saturday night in La Crosse. The cause of the crash was being investigated Sunday, but UW Hospital chief operating officer...

"Baytown police are investigating the death today of a full-term baby whose 14-year-old mother allegedly tried to flush her infant down the toilet at Baytown's Cedar Bayou Junior High School. The unidentified girl, a student at the school, had gone to the restroom where the baby was born...

Beyoncé Knowles and longtime beau Jay-Z have taken out a marriage license in Scarsdale, N.Y., PEOPLE has learned. According to a source, the pair obtained a license Tuesday morning. The document is valid for 60 days. A rep for Beyoncé told PEOPLE, "No comment." Jay-Z's spokesperson could...

With Commander Steve Frick and Pilot Alan Poindexter at the controls, space shuttle Atlantis descended to a smooth landing at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The STS-122 crew concluded their successful assembly mission to the International Space Station when the shuttle touched down at 9:07 a.m. EST...

I wonder what happened?! :confused: "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic actor Eddie Murphy and his new wife Tracey Edmonds have split up just two weeks after their romantic wedding in French Polynesia, People magazine reported on Wednesday." Link...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Jane Hambleton has dubbed herself the "meanest mom on the planet." After finding alcohol in her son's car, she decided to sell the car and share her 19-year-old's misdeed with everyone — by placing an ad in the local newspaper...

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn are entering a state of divorce. The Hollywood twosome, who fell in love on the set of the 1990 thriller State of Grace and later married, are seeking a divorce after 11 years of marriage, according to People. Link...