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Jay-Z will headline the first ever hip-hop focused series of performances at New York's Carnegie Hall in February 2012, with all proceeds benefiting children's education charities.

Real estate developer Forest City Enterprises reported a net loss of $41.9 million, or 25 cents per share, in the third quarter ending Oct. 31, down from $50.6 million, or 33 cents per share, loss in 2010.

The report was the result of a 2010 law requiring a survey of New York's jury pools to determine whether jurors represent a fair cross-section of the population.

Paul may be on a new team before the start of the season.

Juno writer-directors Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman are back again with a dark comedy with characters who are older, but not necessarily wiser

At this point, Alec Baldwin might have to resort to traveling by hang-glider soon.

Kirk Douglas may be turning 95 on Friday, but he is in top shape and more active than ever in his efforts to help the poor and homeless in Los Angeles.

Family Court Judge Susan Larabee refused to release the 12-year-old boy who pushed a shopping cart from the fourth-floor walkway outside a Target store in Harlem, striking 47-year-old mother and philanthropist Marion Hedges and putting her into a coma, from minimum security jail because of his history of erratic behavior.

Former Notre Dame head coach and current Florida offensive coordinator will be named Kansas' next football coach on Friday afternoon, the school announced on Thursday.

The fatal 2008 crane collapse is heading to open court, prompted by worries by both prosecutors and families of victims.

The details of the killing on Dec. 8, 1980 are sadly familiar to almost everyone who remembers that awful event.

Overstock.com and Barnes & Noble are working as partners to help sell books through the Nook Store. The partnership can help Barnes & Noble compensate for the company's poor physical book sales.

On Thursday, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said Occupy Boston protesters have until midnight to pack up and abandon their encampment or police may be forced to take appropriation action.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) does not yet have a ratified labor agreement but the league moved full speed ahead Tuesday by announcing a provisional schedule.

A letter bomb addressed to Deutsche Bank chief Josef Ackermann contained a fully functional bomb, and capable of exploding had it not been intercepted in the bank's mailroom, was the work of far-left Italian group, German authorities said Thursday; and more explosives may still be in the post.

Albert Pujols has finally decided where he is going to play next year after several teams were in on the sweepstakes for arguably the best player in baseball right now. The Los Angeles Angels came out the winner, signing the three-time National League MVP to a 10-year, $250 million dollar deal.

The 7'1 defensive star might sign with New York.

On the thirty-first anniversary of his death, John Lennon's spirit still soars.

Baldwin reiterated his disdain for mid-century phys. ed. instructors in angry missive.

It's one thing to make a bawdy and tasteless comedy if you're going to commit to making a bawdy and tasteless comedy. But The Sitter wants to have its urinal cake and eat it too, pushing the envelope of taste one minute and then delivering maudlin little life lessons the next.

U.S. companies sat on their largest pile of cash on record during the third quarter, providing a substantial buffer against any blow that might come from Europe's debt crisis, data from the Federal Reserve showed on Thursday.