LOS ANGELES

The Las Vegas Hilton hotel and casino has officially lost its eight-year ties with Hilton Worldwide, the leading global hospitality company, after a license agreement expired at the start of 2012.

Casper Smart, the boyfriend of singer Jennifer Lopez, 42, won't get any jail time for speeding but he has been slapped with a one-year probation and a $500 fine, according to reports.

New York-based fashion house Liz Claiborne Inc. has announced its decision to change the organization's name to Fifth & Pacific companies, to ensure closer ties on the three in-house lucrative lifestyle brands - kate spade, Juicy Couture and Lucky Brand.

Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard scored an amazing goal on Wednesday versus Bolton in an English Premier League matchup.

A German citizen was charged Wednesday with setting dozens of fires across Los Angeles over the New Year's weekend in a spree an arson investigator said was motivated by a rage against Americans.

Iraq war veteran and “Dancing With the Stars” champion J.R. Martinez is penning his memoir.

Actor Nick Cannon has been hospitalized in Colorado for mild kidney failure, his wife Mariah Carey shared on Twitter on Wednesday. But what exactly is this illness that had placed Cannon in the hospital?

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The former manager resigned from an MLB front office job to pursue the Dodgers' ownership.

A video of a failed UCLA marriage proposal has gone viral but is the whole thing fake?

Dorothee Burkhart, mother of the suspect LA Arsonist, is in legal trouble of her own, and police think that Harry Burkhart set the L.A. fires due to his anger over his mother's pending deportation because of those problems.

David Beckham stripped down to just his boxer-briefs for the new ad campaign for his underwear collection with H&M.

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.

Bridesmaids was a surprise nominee in the Theatrical Motion Picture category

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.