Boney M. member Bobby Farrell dead at 61... Jazz musician Billy Taylor dead at 89 ... Depp named top money-making star of 2010 ... 'Grenade' tops U.S. record chart ... News from United Press International.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. reality TV star Snooki will not descend in her own ball over New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve as planned, officials said.
GROTON, Mass., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Hollywood film actor Johnny Depp was voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2010 in Quigley Publishing Company's 79th annual poll of motion-picture exhibitors.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The circumstances surrounding the death of Boney M. performer Bobby Farrell are under investigation, police in St. Petersburg, Russia, said Thursday.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Three men were sentenced Wednesday for their roles in an art heist at Sweden's Malmo Art Museum, court records show.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Conrad Murray's legal team plans to argue in the physician's involuntary manslaughter trial that U.S. pop star Michael Jackson killed himself, prosecutors say.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. media mogul Joe Francis has separated from broadcast journalist Christina McLarty, his wife of less than two months, sources told UsMagazine.com.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- British actor Andrew Garfield says Tobey Maguire wrote him a letter wishing him luck in taking over the Spider-Man role on the big-screen.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- New Jersey rockers Bon Jovi had the top-grossing concert tour of 2010, raking in more than $200 million, the concert-tracking publication Pollstar reported.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- There were no signs of trauma found during the autopsy conducted on U.S. soul singer Teena Marie, who died in her sleep Sunday, sources told TMZ Wednesday.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Christopher Tierney, who was seriously hurt last week while performing in Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark," has left the hospital, his father said.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Writer, actor and comedian John Leguizamo is to return to Broadway next year with his new solo play "Ghetto Klown," the show's producers said Wednesday.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Agathe von Trapp, a member of Austria's iconic singing von Trapp family, has died in a Baltimore, Md., hospice, her representatives said. She was 97.
DMX admitted to jail mental health unit ... Report: 'Spider-Man' actress quits musical ... Witherspoon and Toth set to wed ... 'Speak' tops U.S. album chart again ... News from United Press International.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" is No. 1 on the U.S. album chart for a second consecutive week, Billboard.com reported Wednesday.
PHOENIX, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Jailed rapper DMX has been moved to the Arizona Department of Corrections Flamenco Mental Health Unit at Alhambra, prison officials said.
LONDON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- An opera inspired by the life of former South African first lady Winnie Mandela is to open at the State Theatre in Pretoria this April, the BBC said.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald will appear in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," The Wrap reported Tuesday.
OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- The Leonardo DiCaprio thriller "Shutter Island" was the top DVD rental in the United States during 2010, the movie rental company Redbox said Tuesday.
A soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, places a flag at a gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
