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BASIN EVENTS: Dec. 19-27
COLUMBIA BASIN — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and a lot of people will be spending time at home wi…
Extradition hearing to send Weinstein to Los Angeles delayed
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Harvey Weinstein's lawyers and Los Angeles prosecutors have agreed to postpone extradition proceedings that would send the imprisoned former film producer from New York to California to face se…
R. Kelly's manager charged with phone threats to theater
NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly's manager has been arrested in California on charges that he threatened a shooting at a Manhattan theater two years ago, forcing an evacuation and the cancellation of the screening of a doc…
Coronavirus upends conventions, changes TV coverage
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Democratic and Republican conventions will lack for crowds but not television coverage.
Prosecutors charge 3 with threatening women in R. Kelly case
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors announced charges Wednesday against three men accused of threatening and intimidating women who have accused R&B singer R. Kelly of abuse, including one man suspected of setting …
Review: Rumer sets new standards with Hugh Prestwood catalog
Rumer, “Nashville Tears” (Cooking Vinyl)
Artist creates origami crane memorial for COVID-19 victims
An artist in Los Angeles is memorializing each of the thousands of people who have died from COVID-19 in the United States with a delicate origami crane.
Lucille Ball Comedy Festival goes virtual in its 29th year
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival is going virtual with help from Tiffany Haddish, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Margaret Cho, “Weird Al” Yankovic and more than two-dozen others working in the realm …
AMC to offer 15-cent tickets on first day of reopening
NEW YORK (AP) — AMC Theatres, the nation's largest movie theater chain, will reopen in the U.S. on Aug. 20 with retro ticket prices of 15 cents per movie.
Sentencing date set for NY self-help guru in sex slave case
NEW YORK (AP) — The leader of a cult-like self-improvement group in upstate New York who was convicted last year on charges that he turned some of his followers into sex slaves will face sentencing on Oct. 27, a ju…
J Balvin says he is recovering from the coronavirus
NEW YORK (AP) — Colombian superstar J Balvin says he is recovering after battling the coronavirus.
Bob Woodward's new Trump book, 'Rage,' due out next month
WASHINGTON (AP) — Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's new book about President Donald Trump is titled “Rage” and will be released Sept. 15, less than two months before Election Day, according to a listi…
Dev Patel celebrates India from his Los Angeles front yard
LONDON (AP) — Quarantine brought opportunities to Dev Patel’s front yard.
Dolly Parton, Justin Bieber among virtual TV festival stars
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dolly Parton, Cate Blanchett and Justin Bieber are part of the virtual edition of the Paley Center’s annual festival celebrating TV programs and their makers.
Review: Rare spotlight role for superb pianist Matt Rollings
Matt Rollings, "Matt Rollings Mosaic” (Dualtone Records)
Tribune closing 5 newsrooms including NY Daily News
Tribune Publishing Company, which owns some of the most storied newspapers in American journalism, said Wednesday that it is closing the newsrooms at five of them, including New York's Daily News and The Capital Ga…