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Actress Demi Moore suffered convulsions and seemed only semi-conscious after smoking an undisclosed substance before being rushed to hospital earlier this week, according to the tape of a medical emergency call released on Friday.

A former tugboat worker will stand trial in October on charges of killing his ex-wife and seven others at a California hair salon in the largest mass slaying in Orange County history, a judge ruled on Friday.

Dick Clark Productions Chief Executive Officer Mark Shapiro had to admit in Los Angeles District Court late this week that he employed bluffs and half-truths to get NBC to agree to an $150 million deal to air the Golden Globes.

Penelope Ann Miller, Michael Shannon and Zoe Saldana are the first confirmed presenters for this year's Film Independent Spirit Awards, Film Independent announced exclusively to TheWrap on Friday.

The dazzling line-up of entrepreneurs and sporting figures vying to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers has been whittled down, with some of the bidding groups already notified that they had made the cut, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson asked on Friday to be released from jail, pending an appeal that could take a year to be heard.

Hundreds of mourners gathered at a Los Angeles-area church on Saturday to remember rhythm-and-blues singer Etta James, saying she overcame great personal and professional hurdles to sing the times that she lived.

Dimitra Arliss, the actress who played a hired killer alongside the likes of Robert Redford and Paul Newman in the comedy The Sting, died in Los Angeles earlier this week at the age of 79.

All about Spice and K2, the hot new drugs Demi Moore may have smoked before being rushed to the hospital Monday night.

The tape of the Demi Moore 911 call from the actresses' home Monday night has been released, and it appears the situation more more serious than her publicist initially related. The Los Angeles Fire Department released the tape of the 911 call, made by a friend as the 49-year-old Moore was apparently in a medical emergency. Moore's friends were trying to summon an ambulance to her Beverly Hills home.

A funeral service for legendary singer Etta James was held on Saturday, in Southern California and presided over by the Rev. Al Sharpton who began the service by reading a note from President Barack Obama.

The list of presenters for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, or SAG, which will be held on Sunday, in Los Angeles has been announced. The award ceremony will be aired live on TNT and TBS.

The Dodgers are expected to be sold by April 30.

Ever want to be as a good as Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant? You're not alone. That's why Nike has released an ad campaign that features Bryant giving success seminars to several celebrities including Aziz Ansari, celebrity life coach Tony Robbins, Arizona Cardinals wide-receiver Larry Fitzgerald, Hall-of-Fame wide-receiver Jerry Rice, tennis star Serena Williams, US Soccer sensation Hope Solo and multi-talented Chinese megastar Wong Lee Ho.

After Oklahoma State Sen. Ralph Shortey introduced a bill Jan. 18 that prohibits the manufacture or sale of foods which contain aborted human fetuses or which used them in the research or development of any of the ingredients, the world is wondering what foods contain aborted human fetuses.

The redacted tape of the 911 phone call for Demi Moore was released by Los Angeles Officials on Friday in which Moore is described as convulsing, semi-conscious and burning up. Here is a full transcript of Demi Moore's 911 call on Monday. Some of the words are inaudible. You can also listen to the audio of the call.

For the fashion elite, the Year of the Dragon marked a special inaugural festivity - Dragon Week. Dragon Week, created by Affinity China, was a week-long luxury trip designed specifically for wealthy Chinese travelers.

The J. Edgar actor and Victoria's Secret model Erin Heatherton headed to Mexico this week.

Fran Drescher believes she was abducted by aliens and told the Huffington Post that she and her ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson had alien experiences and that the two have similar scars where the aliens placed chips..

A leading U.S. lawmaker on online privacy issues said Thursday he would ask for a probe into whether recently announced changes in how Google handles consumer data violated an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission.

An edited version of Demi Moore's 911 audio tape, recorded the night she fell semi-unconscious and suffered seizure-like symptoms after allegedly doing whip-its or inhaling nitrous oxide, will be released Friday.