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In this Sept. 7, 2008 file photo, DJ AM, left, and musician Travis Barker pose backstage at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.

Story Published: Dec 1, 2008 at 8:47 AM MST

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By Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Punk musician Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM will perform together for the first time since the duo survived a fiery plane crash in South Carolina.

The former Blink-182 drummer and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, will headline New Year’s Nation’s Los Angeles New Year’s Eve Party at The Lot in West Hollywood.

“I’m ready to get back on stage with AM and continue to rock the house,” Barker said in a statement. (Read the full post about ‘Travis Barker and DJ AM to reunite for performance’…)

Story Published: Nov 30, 2008 at 11:35 AM MST

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By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thanksgiving weekend movie crowds gobbled up the Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn holiday comedy “Four Christmases,” which debuted at No. 1 with $31.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The Warner Bros. release, featuring Witherspoon and Vaughn as a couple suffering through four separate family holiday gatherings, raised its total to $46.7 million since opening Wednesday to get a head start on the long weekend.

In terms of revenue, it was Hollywood’s second-biggest Thanksgiving period ever. (Read the full post about ‘‘Four Christmases’ finds $31 million in holiday cheer’…)

Story Published: Nov 29, 2008 at 1:09 PM MST

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By Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Whitney Houston has issued a statement denying the rumors of a reunion with Bobby Brown.

Acting on behalf of Houston, the singer’s publicist Nancy Seltzer calls speculation that the exes are getting back together “a complete fabrication.”

Seltzer pinpoints the rumors to a report in Wednesday’s Chicago Sun-Times that said Houston and Brown had been spotted out and about in Georgia looking romantic.

Houston and Brown divorced in April 2007 after 14 years of marriage. (Read the full post about ‘Whitney Houston denies reunion with ex Bobby Brown’…)

Story Published: Nov 29, 2008 at 1:07 PM MST

Story Updated: Nov 29, 2008 at 1:07 PM MST

By Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - So you think the ladies of “The View” don’t get along?

Things have never been more cordial, says Barbara Walters, whose weekday ABC talk show pits her with Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd debating “hot topics.”

“I don’t know of any five women who get along as well as we do,” says Walters. “We see each other off-camera. Whoopi is having a big Christmas party for everybody. (Read the full post about ‘View at ‘The View’? Happy, says Barbara Walters’…)

Story Published: Nov 29, 2008 at 1:04 PM MST

Story Updated: Nov 29, 2008 at 1:04 PM MST

By By FRAZIER MOORE Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Madonna’s awakening to the crisis in Malawi - an impoverished African nation where one million children are orphaned by AIDS - had many consequences.

She adopted one of those orphans, her 3-year-old son David. She is building a school there.

And she has told Malawi’s harrowing story in her documentary, “I Am Because We Are.” With an audience thus far limited to isolated theater screenings, it will be screened for everyone with its TV premiere on Sundance Channel at 9 p.m. (Read the full post about ‘Madonna’s film about orphans to air on Sundance’…)

Video: JPMorgan CEO to speak to WaMu employees Larger screen

SEATTLE - Thousands of Seattle Washington Mutual employees will lose their jobs.

WaMu spokeswoman Darcy Donahoe-Wilmott says JPMorgan Chase is laying off 3,400 WaMu employees in Seattle - more than 80 percent of the 4,300 people the company employs in the city.

Donahoe-Wilmott said the majority of these people worked in what were formerly WaMu headquarters or regional jobs.

Of those, 1,500 are "short-term" layoffs, who are receiving their 60-day "WARN" notices today and will be gone by the end of January.

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VANCOUVER, Wash. — An incomplete 911 call from east Clark County Monday morning has led to discovery of a double homicide.

Emergency dispatchers received a 911 call just before 5 a.m. from a residence on NE 212th Avenue but no one spoke on the phone.

Deputies went out to do a welfare check and discovered a dead man inside with an apparent gunshot wound.

As police searched the house they also found a dead woman in a bedroom, who also had a gunshot wound.

Investigators believe the two are related but their names have not been released, pending notification of family members.

Clark County investigators are on the scene.

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PORTLAND — An artist’s rendition of a pregnant virgin Mary is overlooking the community of Old Town in Northwest Portland as an intended message of hope.

Photo credit: maryfulloflife.org

This is the sculpture featured on the Old Town billboard.

According to an article in the Oregonian, the Milwaukie woman who commissioned the photograph of the sculpture titled “Mary Full of Life” said it’s a testament to her deeply held beliefs and was not meant to be a political message.

Valerie Aschbacher told the Oregonian that it seemed appropriate to have such a billboard in Old Town because alcohol and drug addiction has damaged so many lives there and people need hope that their lives can turn around.

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Deputies with the Columbia County Sheriff’s office pulled a body from the Columbia River on Sunday afternoon.

A fisherman called 911 just before 2 p.m. Sunday to report finding a body floating in the water on the Washington side of Sand Island near St. Helens.

The fisherman stayed at the scene until deputies arrived and could retrieve the body from the river.

The body was sent to the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s office to be identified.

Americans love bison, but don’t know they are in trouble-

New National Survey Says Public Reveres Bison. From Science Daily.