Karl Habsburg is a descendant of Austria’s last emperor. From 1995 to 1999, Habsburg served in the European Parliament but was barred by conservative party leaders from running again because he was linked to a financial scandal.
Karl Habsburg, the grandson of Austria’s last emperor, was ordered today to pay a $14,000 [...]
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Actor Michael Douglas has starred in Wall Street, Basic Instinct, The Game and dozens of other high-profile movies. He is the son of Hollywood great Kirk Douglas.
The son of actor Michael Douglas was arrested for cocaine possession, police said Wednesday.
Cameron Douglas, 20, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, [...]
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Government lawyers have rejected a Texas attorney’s challenge to join a scientific field test that he has said would prove that federal agents fired at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco just before it burned in 1993.
The federal lawyers sent a caustic letter Monday declining to participate in tests designed to show how airborne infrared [...]
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Cincinnati Bengals guard Matt O’Dwyer pleaded guilty Tuesday to disorderly conduct and third-degree assault in connection with a July bar brawl. “He just wanted to get it behind him so he can focus on football,” his lawyer, Stephen Scaring, said.
O’Dwyer, who used to play for the New York Jets, originally was [...]
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Thomas Cusick has composed hit songs for such stars as Barry Manilow, Lionel Ritchie, Olivia Newton-John, Tony Orlando and Neil Diamond.
A composer who’s written hit songs for such stars as Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond was arraigned today on charges that he sexually assaulted five of his adopted sons, authorities [...]
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Led by harmonica virtuoso John Popper, Blues Traveler built a national following with the hit song “Runaround,” which won a Grammy in 1995, catapulted sales of the band’s album Four past the 4 million mark.
Bobby Sheehan, the bassist for the Grammy award-winning rock band Blues Traveler, accidentally overdosed on a combination [...]
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Roz Kelly played Pinky Tuscadero, girlfriend of The Fonz, on the TV show Happy Days.
Actress Roz Kelly walked out of court a free woman today after a judge suspended her prison sentence and gave her three years’ probation.
Kelly, 56, had pleaded no contest in July to blasting a neighbor’s home with [...]
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Hippie blues band the Grateful Dead emerged from the 1960s and ’70s with armies of fans, some of whom made a life out of following the group on its tours around the U.S.
In the 1960s, the government’s intelligence services focused on a nation awash in drug use, civil rights strife and [...]
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Her mother and sister are Naomi and Wynonna Judd of country music fame, but Ashley’s star burns brighter in Hollywood, where she is a sought-after box office name. Her films include Double Jeopardy, Eye of the Beholder, A Time to Kill and Kiss the Girls.
The Kentucky man who masqueraded as [...]
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The late Chicago baseball broadcaster Harry Caray would bellow “Holy Cow!” after great plays and sing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the seventh-inning stretch.
Everybody loved Harry Caray, the gregarious Chicago baseball broadcaster who would bellow “Holy Cow” after great plays and sing “Take Me Out to the Ball [...]
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