NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Kenny Chesney has made the very hard work of dominating country music look easy.
HOLCOMB, Kan. - It's one of America's most haunting crime stories: four members of a Kansas family brutally murdered on Nov. 15, 1959, at their rural farmhouse.
LOS ANGELES - Mya is tops on "Dancing With the Stars."
WARWICK, R.I. - A hospital did not do enough to care for the brother of James Woods when he went to the emergency room complaining of a sore throat and vomiting in 2006, a lawyer for the actor told jurors Monday at the trial of a wrongful death lawsuit.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Who wants to become the new singer for Aerosmith?
Bon Jovi, "The Circle" (Island)
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Rihanna joined U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, British fashion designer Stella McCartney and nine others on Monday to be honored as "Women of the Year" after the R&B singer took a public stand on domestic violence.
TOKYO - Japanese actress Noriko Sakai, once hugely popular in Asia, was convicted of drug use Monday as thousands of people crowded outside the courthouse in anticipation of the verdict.
NEW YORK - Robin Roberts is comfortable in the knowledge that when ABC's "Good Morning America" makeover is complete, she will keep her seat at the anchor desk. She just doesn't know who will be sitting next to her.
NEW YORK - Even for a venue as grand as New York's Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards.
Melanie Fiona, "The Bridge" (Universal Motown)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge on Monday blocked singer-actress Jennifer Lopez's first husband from distributing a tell-all movie with video of the former couple's sex life.
LOS ANGELES - A judge on Monday ordered a woman to stay away from Justin Timberlake for the next three years.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Madonna, who has promoted school building in the African country Malawi, is now turning her star power onto projects to improve the notorious slums of Rio de Janeiro.
LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Lopez won a court order Monday barring her first husband from making their sex life public — at least for a day.
NEW YORK - Marianne Faithfull has never been much for nostalgia throughout a roller-coaster career that's found her constantly reinventing herself. But when her band played "As Tears Go By" on her fall U.S. concert tour, she found herself flashing back to where her wild ride all began.
"Sweet Thunder" (Knopf, 464 pages, $27.95), by Wil Haygood: The boxer Sugar Ray Robinson was a man of glittering skill and deep complexity. So complex, in fact, that several writers — including Robinson himself — have tried and failed to render a full portrait.
BERLIN (Billboard) - The German government has banned hard rock group Rammstein's latest hit album from public display in stores because of its depictions of sado-masochism.
It may not merit the adjective in its title, yet the animated yarn "Fantastic Mr. Fox" offers some of the most goofy fun you'll have at a theater this season.
LOS ANGELES - On the eve of a hearing in the Michael Jackson estate, a lawyer for the singer's father filed a 60-page motion Monday that intensifies a bid to get money from his son's estate by making accusations of fraud against the administrators of his will.
"Shakespeare/The Illustrated and Updated Edition" (HarperCollins, 256 pages, $29.99), by Bill Bryson: There's no play attributed to Shakespeare about a Puritan woman who whipped her cat for catching mice on Sunday.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If you rolled every disaster movie into one spectacular package, you would wind up with something close to "2012," Roland Emmerich's latest apocalyptic fantasy.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Gospel music singer Bobby Jones has donated an estimated $6 million worth of recordings to Tennessee State University, his alma mater.
"Samuel Johnson: A Life" (Henry Holt and Company, 432 pages, $30), by David Nokes: David Nokes, a prominent scholar of 18th-century English literature, takes a fresh look at Samuel Johnson, the man known as the creator of the dictionary. In doing so, Nokes shows a very human side of Johnson, and the perspective of his times.
LONDON (Reuters) - Japanese manga artist Hoshino Yukinobu has brought his popular character Professor Munakata to London's British Museum, featuring some of the collection's most famous treasures in his drawings.
BERLIN - Sir Simon Rattle's new contract with the Berlin Philharmonic is just days old but already he's looking ahead — to the orchestra's coast-to-coast tour U.S. tour starting this week, and to the role that classical music can and will play in 21st century society.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox Searchlight is going to the ballet.
WILMINGTON, Ohio - Television cooking star Rachael Ray is boosting the local food supply for a struggling Ohio town.
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Britney Spears has done it again, hitting the headlines during her first Australian tour over a row about lip-synching and a lacklustre performance that her tour promoter said had left her "extremely upset."
LOS ANGELES - Jim Carrey made merry at the weekend box office as his animated take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" opened at No. 1 with $30.1 million.