AP - R. Kelly has won a $3.4 million award against his former tour promoter and is asking a Los Angeles judge to help him collect.
AP - Jimmy Kimmel is coming back to provide more laughs for the American Music Awards.
AP - Miley Cyrus' 16th birthday party was more boisterous than sweet. Cyrus celebrated the hallmark birthday at an over-the-top Disneyland celebration Sunday — even though she doesn't actually turn 16 until Nov. 23. The theme park was closed for the supersized soiree, which included a four-song performance by the teen queen and a fireworks display above Sleeping Beauty Castle and 16 giant inflatable candles.
Reuters - American singer Pink has toppled Kings of Leon from the peak of the British pop charts with her single "So What," the Official UK Charts Company said on Sunday.
AP - Former "American Idol" contestant Paris Bennett has given birth to a daughter named Egypt.
AP - Even though he's considered one of rap's all-time greats, when Slick Rick is asked about his most significant accomplishment, he doesn't mention having a platinum-selling record, classic hits like "Children's Story" or even his most recent accolade — getting saluted as a pioneer at the "VH1 Hip-Hop Honors."
Reuters - Celebrity impersonator Gilberto Gless is known for performing as Vicente Fernandez, Marco Antonio Solis, Luis Miguel and other famous singers on Univision and on Televisa specials.
E! Online - First Barack Obama raised the Dead. Now he's healing the sick.
E! Online - Don't let the bandages fool you?DJ AM is on the road to recovery.
E! Online - Mariah Carey's first single from E=MC˛ was a smash, but two follow-ups?released after her marriage to Nick Cannon?bombed. Is marriage costing her?
E! Online - So much for crafting a rock-star attitude. Chris Martin, he of the newly crowned Best Act in the World Today, has reverted back to his humble beginnings.
Yahoo! Music - Ten finalists have been named by Oklahoma's Official Rock Song Advisory Panel in a contest to elect the Official Rock 'N' Roll Song of Oklahoma. Among the contenders are bluesman J.J. Cale, new wavers the Call, surf heroes the Ventures, '50s rockabilly goddess Wanda Jackson, pop-rockers the All-American Rejects, and psychedelic eccentrics the Flaming Lips.
Reuters - Most artists would save their best-known song -- an Oscar-winning song, yet -- for the end of a show or an encore. But not the Swell Season's Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
E! Online - Forget teacher. Eddie Van Halen's hot for Janie.
AP - Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Mississippi Delta.
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