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A Los Angeles city councilman is urging people who don't get tickets to the Michael Jackson memorial service to just stay home and watch it on TV.

Sarah Palin says she will resign from office by the end of the month.

A man charged with murdering Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller has been advocating through mailings from his jail cell that such killings are justifiable.

The television product pitchman is being remembered as a pop culture icon.

A law enforcement official says the powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home.

The U.S. Coast Guard and others are searching Lake Erie for four fishermen whose 19-foot boat set sail a day earlier.

A federal judge in Dallas says he will consider a modest request for money to pay lawyers and accountants to comb through R. Allen Stanford's personal assets to find money untainted by an alleged $7 billion fraud.

The twin sisters were found dead in their San Antonio home after the city sweltered through days of 100-degree heat.

Authorities say a transformer failure caused a Staten Island ferry to lose power and slam into a New York City pier earlier this week.

Authorities in South Carolina say they're looking for a serial killer they believe has shot four people to death within 10 miles of each other.