Singer Fantasia Barrino threw her big brother out of her house after he demolished her pool house to build himself a recording studio - without permission. The American Idol winner's fall out with Teeny is chronicled on her new reality TV showFantasia For Real, but the singer appeared on Oprah Winfrey's talk show on Wednesday to explain why she and her sibling are estranged.

She says, "The last time I was on the road, Teeny decided to turn the pool house into a studio... it was more...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A personal assistant's confession to killing her celebrity real estate broker boss was just a tale concocted to satisfy police, a defense lawyer said Monday.

Natavia Lowery stole from boss Linda Stein — a real estate powerhouse with punk-rock roots — but didn't kill her, defense lawyer John Christie told jurors as Lowery's murder trial opened. She's accused of clubbing Stein to death with a piece of

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NEW YORK (AP) -- The confession was dramatic and videotaped. The weeping woman described to a prosecutor how she fatally bludgeoned her boss — punk-rock pioneer and celebrity real estate broker Linda Stein — with a piece of exercise equipment.

The suspect, Stein's personal assistant, said she snapped after Stein insulted and cursed at her and blew marijuana smoke in her face.

"'Leave me alone. Leave me alone!'"

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PARIS (Reuters) – Veteran French rocker Johnny Hallyday has been released from a Los Angeles hospital where he underwent a back operation earlier this month, his publicists said on Wednesday.

"The doctors judged that Johnny Hallyday's current state of health has improved and justifies a return home to his family while he continues to receive the medical treatment he needs," they said in a statement.

He will

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PARIS (AP) -- Johnny Hallyday's press relations office says the French rocker has emerged from a medically induced coma he had been in since last week.

In an e-mail, the Paris-based 96b press relations office said doctors at L.A.'s Cedars Sinai hospital woke Hallyday up on Monday.

Doctors at the hospital had induced the coma following an operation last Wednesday to fix lingering back trouble from an

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PARIS (Reuters) – Veteran French rocker Johnny Hallyday has had surgery in Los Angeles, where he was admitted to the Cedars-Sinai hospital on Monday, his publicists said on Thursday.

Hallyday, one of France's most popular entertainers in a career spanning almost 50 years, has been suffering health problems recently and underwent surgery in France last month for a herniated disc.

He was admitted to hospital

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YUMA, Ariz. (AP) -- Rapper Lil Wayne will go on trial next March on felony drug possession and weapons charges he faces in Yuma County, Ariz.

The trial date was set during a court hearing in Yuma on Thursday.

The case against Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, stems from his arrest at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 8 east of Yuma in January 2008. Authorities said they found cocaine,

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