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Van Halen announced last month that they will go on tour in 2012 and tickets for the shows will go on sale Tuesday, Jan. 10. The tour schedule has yet to be announced, but rumors offer details of kick-off city buzz, a new song from their upcoming album and a show in NYC.

Shervin Lalezary, the 30-year-old Los Angeles County reserve sheriff's deputy who captured arsonist Harry Burkhart, made his capture as a volunteer who earns just one dollar a year for his services, according to reports.

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Los Angeles Police arrested Harry Burkhart, 24, as the arsonist in connection to the 55 fires that have been set around Hollywood over the last four days.

The latest promotion is for one-way fares for as low as $39. Tickets must be purchased by Jan. 5 (before 11:59 p.m. on Jan. 3), and a seven-day advance purchase is required.

The Madison Square Garden Company and Time Warner Cable spat may go on for a while after MSG Networks was pulled from the New York-based cable company's lineup Sunday after the two parties failed to come to an agreement on how much Time Warner Cable would pay for MSG services.

Demi Moore is set to star in the upcoming film Lovelace as feminist icon Gloria Steinem.

Chief Justices John Roberts focused his year-end report on ethics at the nation's high court amid calls for Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas to recuse themselves from the health care law case.

Meryl Streep's latest movie The Iron Lady, a biopic on the UK's first female prime minister Margaret Thatcher, saw positive sales during the first weekend of its limited release.

A Coronado shooting that occurred about two hours into the New Year near San Diego has left four people dead, two of whom are believed to be military personnel. Police said the victims included three men and a woman.

Van Halen announced a 2012 tour. Before tickets go on sale Jan. 10, the band will perform in NYC on Jan. 5. There is a new album on the way, expected for a Feb. 7 release.

Police arrested a Hollywood man believed to be a German citizen on Monday in connection with a wave of 53 arson fires across Los Angeles that terrorized neighborhoods over the holiday weekend.

The police has identified a 24-year-old man, arrested in connection with the Los Angeles blazes, as Harry Burkhart, German citizen. Burkhart was arrested on Monday, as he resembled a person of interest in a surveillance video released by the authorities, according to police sources.

2011 was not only a big year for news, it was also a big year for online leaks. Several celebrities fell victim to online hackers who posted their nude photos or alleged nude photos on the Internet. Similarly, footage from some of the biggest movies last year also found its way on the World Wide Web.

GTA 5 is still awaiting a release date.

Firefighters in Los Angeles were steeling themselves for a busy New Year's Eve on Saturday, following a rash of arson fires that saw more than 30 cars torched in recent days.

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A Laurel Canyon home once inhabited by Jim Morrison was damaged in one of the 19 overnight arson attacks that plagued Hollywood and West Hollywood early Friday morning, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Soul singer Etta James, who is terminally ill with leukemia, has been taken off a respirator and is breathing on her own again, her friend and manager said on Friday.

A rash of arson fires in Los Angeles that has seen more than 30 cars torched in recent days had authorities on the lookout for at least one suspect on Saturday, amid fears more blazes could result in serious injury.

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