• 2nd white buffalo born on Wisconsin farm

  September 14, 2006
  A Wisconsin couple found that miracles sometimes happen twice, when a second white calf was born on their buffalo farm.
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  NBC releases 'The Biggest Loser 3' cast and twist information

  August 15, 2006
  After two weeks of on-air promotions that teased that this fall's The Biggest Loser 3 would feature fifty competitors, NBC has come clean and acknowledged that only fourteen of the fifty "contestants" (probably more accurately termed semifinalists) will make it past an initial fitness and nutrition boot camp and immediately move on to competing in the show's traditional The Biggest Loser Ranch competition.

• Libraries becoming entrepreneurs

  April 6, 2006
  Public libraries in southern California are becoming more like businesses, striving to attract patrons and to make money.

• Valerie Bertinelli files for divorce from rocker Eddie Van Halen

  December 6, 2005
  Actress Valerie Bertinelli filed for divorce in Los Angeles Tuesday, seeking an end to her 25-year marriage with rocker Eddie Van Halen.

• Madonna's Maverick TV producing 'San Rafael' gay soap for Logo

  November 18, 2005
  Madonna's Maverick TV is producing a gay soap opera for the Logo cable network.

• Veteran journalist Robert Novak curses, walks off CNN set

  August 4, 2005
  Veteran Washington journalist Robert Novak uttered an expletive and walked off the set during a political discussion on CNN Thursday.

• Tiffani Thiessen marriages fellow actor Brady Smith

  July 11, 2005
  Actress Tiffani Thiessen of "Beverly Hills 90210" fame has married fellow actor Brady Smith in Montecito, Calif., E! Online reported Monday.

• Bravo reveals identities of its upcoming 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars' participants

  June 23, 2005
  Bravo has announced the identities of most of the thirty-two former reality television participants -- billed as representing sixteen different reality shows -- who will compete in its upcoming Battle of the Network Reality Stars.

• Judge sentences Little League mom convicted of assault and battery

  March 2, 2005
  A 41-year-old mother in Massachusetts was sentenced to a year of probation for assaulting a boy rooting for the opposing team during a Little League match.

• George Szirtes wins T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

  January 18, 2005
  Hungarian-born George Szirtes won England's most respected poetry award, the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.

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