MEMPHIS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Chilean miner Edison Pena, the Elvis fan trapped underground for months, gets a chance to visit his idol's haunts and celebrate his birthday next week.
NASHVILLE, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Country singer Alan Jackson surprised the Zac Brown Band twice in one day by giving band leader Brown a Cadillac then joining the group on stage in Nashville.
CHARLESTON, S.C., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- South Carolina's governor-elect says she won't allow talk show queen Oprah Winfrey access to Susan Smith, serving life in prison for killing her two sons.
LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Britain's Prince William and his bride-to-be Kate Middleton have no plans to hire servants to staff their home in North Wales, a palace source told People.com.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The owner of New York's famed Coney Island amusement park was hit with a $5,000 fine after razing the Shoot the Freak Boardwalk game.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- American actors Brad Pit and Angelina Jolie, fresh from celebrating the holidays in Africa, visited a pediatric cancer center in Pitt's boyhood town.
PYONGYANG, North Korea, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- "Bend it Like Beckham" this week became the first Western commercial film shown on North Korean television, an organizer of the broadcast said.
LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Tabloid newsmakers Simon Cowell and Bruce Forsyth won't be honored for chivalry, but veteran British actors Sheila Hancock and David Suchet both made the list.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- John Mellencamp's publicist says the U.S. recording star and Elaine, his wife of 18 years, have separated and plan to divorce.
LANSING, Mich., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Geraldine Hoff Doyle, the Michigan woman who appeared as the female-empowerment icon Rosie the Riveter on World War II-era posters, has died, her family said.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Actress Eve Hewson, the 19-year-old daughter of Irish rocker Bono, is dating "One Tree Hill" star James Lafferty, the New York Daily News said Thursday.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Ryan Phillippe says he wishes nothing but the best for his ex-wife, actress Reese Witherspoon, and her new fiance, agent Jim Toth.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The executors of Michael Jackson's estate have requested that the Discovery Channel cancel its planned re-enactment of the U.S. pop star's autopsy.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. singer, dancer and TV personality Paula Abdul says she has never had a drinking or drug problem, contrary to rumors claiming she has.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Margaret Colin, Billy Crudup and Raul Esparza have signed on to star in the Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's stage comedy, "Arcadia."
U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Ultralight Aircraft Smuggling Prevention Act of 2012 as former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, her husband Mark Kelly (R) and Vice President Joe Biden look on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on February 10, 2012. UPI/Pat Benic...
