• Jeremy Piven to star in Masterpiece 'Mr. Selfridge' series

  July 25, 2012
  Jeremy Piven is to star in the drama series "Mr. Selfridge," a co-production of America's Masterpiece/WGBH and Britain's ITV Studios.

• City drops dance marathon ban

  July 23, 2012
  A California city council has done away with an 82-year-old ban on dance marathons that carried a six month jail sentence for violations.
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  'America's Got Talent' determines next four seventh-season semifinalists

  July 12, 2012
  America's Got Talent revealed its second set of four seventh-season semifinalist acts during Wednesday night's live broadcast of the NBC reality competition series.

• California church told to quiet down

  June 14, 2012
  A California church has been ordered to reduce its noise and refrain from using band music until it is fitted with sound-proofing.

• Texting woman falls into lake

  March 20, 2012
  Authorities in Michigan said they pulled a 45-year-old woman out of Lake Michigan after she fell off a pier while text messaging.

• Deputies: Son attacked mom over taco sauce

  March 9, 2012
  Authorities in Florida said a 23-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman were arrested for allegedly attacking the man's mother for using their taco sauce.

• 'Hoarder' kept mom's remains in storage

  January 30, 2012
  A Florida woman who kept her mother's remains in a storage unit for up to 16 years was a hoarder, just like her mother, her daughter's ex-husband says.

• Shirley MacLaine joining the cast of 'Downton Abbey' next season

  January 30, 2012
  Shirley MacLaine is to join the cast of "Downton Abbey" next season, the British period drama's producers said Monday.

• TSA agent confiscates cupcake from woman

  December 25, 2011
  A Peabody, Mass., woman says a security officer at the Las Vegas airport took a frosted cupcake from her because he felt the icing posed a security risk.
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  'The Biggest Loser' crowns John Rhode twelfth-season champion

  December 14, 2011
  The Biggest Loser crowned John Rhode its champion during Tuesday night's live finale broadcast of the NBC reality weight-loss competition's twelfth season.

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