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Student with cerebral palsy named prom queen
In many ways, Desaray Carroll is a typical high school teenager. She texts nonstop, hangs out with her friends, goes to the movies and out to eat. The 19-year-old Coahulla Creek High School student is surrounded with a family and friends who love and support her, so much so they ...
'Sesame Street' gets new Hispanic character
As a child in Puerto Rico, Ismael Cruz was delighted by the colorful characters in "Sesame Street," who not only entertained and educated him, but helped him learn "inglés." He could not have imagined that two decades later he would be playing with them in front of the cameras. Cruz ...
Television viewers make their choice of killers
The television audience appears to have made its choice of serial killers. Fox's Joe Carroll beats NBC's Hannibal Lecter in viewer interest. Last week's Nielsen Co. ratings make that clear. "The Following," the gruesome series that debuted on Fox in January, is a hit. With 7.8 million viewers, it was ...
Beyonce reigns as forest queen in animated 'Epic'
Beyonce loved voicing Queen Tara in the new children's movie "Epic" — at least once she stopped crying. Queen B has gone from pop royalty to screen royalty, becoming the forest queen in an animated movie that she hopes her 15-month-old daughter Blue Ivy will be proud of one day. ...
Jackson's life recounted in opening of civil trial
Michael Jackson's struggle against drug addiction was on display Monday during opening statements in his mother's wrongful death case against concert promoter AEG Live. Competing portraits of Jackson emerged during the first hours of the trial, with Katherine Jackson's attorney acknowledging the pop star's drug problems while also trying to ...
UCLA to test drugs for autism in weeks not years
In an effort to find a treatment for autism, scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, are leading a $9 million experiment that aims to evaluate the effectiveness of drugs within weeks rather than years. It's part of a push by the National Institutes of Health to fast-track the ...
Jason Segel working on middle-grade book series
Jason Segel is becoming an author. The star of the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" and "Freaks and Geeks" has a deal with Random House Children's Books for a middle-grade series set in a haunted town. The series is called "Nightmares!" and will debut in the fall of ...
Stuff You Should Know for 8-21-12
Wow! Congratulations to Will Lucas, and the Fairfield American Little League team! They'll play California, the only team they've lost to so far in the LLWS, tonight at 8 PM on ESPN 2. If a bunch of 11 and 12-year-old little leaguers doesn't make you feel unaccomplished, this 8-year-old girl ...
Stuff You Should Know for 5-8-12
Maurice Sendak died today at the age of 83. Here is a spectacular interview he did with Stephen Colbert. And here is Christopher Walken reading his most well-known book, Where the Wild Things Are. You can now get your own Tanorexic mom action figure! (Self-tanner sold separately.) A CT-based company in ...
International Women's Day 2012
Women mark International Women's Day with events in the United States and around the world.
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