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The world's first glimpse of Jack Whittaker (search), winner of the richest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history, was of a boisterous, happy-go-lucky guy in a big cowboy hat who loved his family,...

Three former high school classmates of "Dazed and Confused" (search) director Richard Linklater have filed a lawsuit claiming they have suffered embarrassment and ridicule because of characters based ...

About 10,000 casino hotel workers from more than half the city's 12 casinos went on strike Friday, even though negotiators had reached a tentative agreement with three of the casinos.Members of Local ...

Singer Ashlee Simpson's (search) "extra help" may have been exposed when a "Saturday Night Live" audience heard her voice - singing the wrong song - while she held a microphone at her waist.Her record...

Usama bin Laden (search ) made his first televised appearance in more than a year Friday in which he admitted for the first time ordering the Sept. 11 attacks and accused President Bush of "misleading...

In a book to be published Monday, iconoclastic filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (search) reveals that he fathered a daughter outside of one of his five marriages, a secret he had kept for 45 years, his publis...

Rodney Dangerfield (search), the bug-eyed comic whose self-deprecating one-liners brought him stardom in clubs, television and movies and made his lament "I don't get no respect" a catchphrase, died T...

Janet Leigh (search), the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Psycho" was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a m...

A man who stomped another man to death in what prosecutors called an anti-Semitic attack outside a St. Louis diner was sentenced to life in prison, the maximum penalty."This was a deliberate killing,"...

"Superman" actor Christopher Reeve (search), who turned personal tragedy into a public crusade and from his wheelchair became the nation's most recognizable spokesman for spinal cord research, has die...