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The fourth quarter of 2009 for the music and video game industries is shaping up to be all about the Beatles. And both could use some “Help!” The band, which released its last full album of original music in 1970, is the focus of the simultaneous Wednesday release of “The Beatles: Rock Band” for the Rock Band video game franchise, as well as the digitally remastered box set of the Beatles 13-album discography by EMI
Los Angeles firefighters and city crews worked for several hours Tuesday to rescue one of their own: a 22-ton firetruck that was nearly swallowed by a water-logged sinkhole. The incident happened after four firefighters took the truck to the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Valley Village, where flooding had been reported after a water main break, just before 6 a.m.
It looks like “Dancing With the Stars” Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy will be performing their next dances solo. The pair, who just last month gushed about how they do everything together, have broken up after about a year, Smirnoff’s rep told PEOPLE.
A woman who was convicted at a trial for wearing pants — clothing deemed indecent by Sudanese authorities — was released from jail Tuesday after being imprisoned for a day, a United Nations spokesman said.
President Obama’s speech to Congress on Wednesday on health care reform will probably be one of the high-noon moments of his presidency. Surrounded by liberals demanding a government-run public option and centrist Democrats — along with Republicans — who want to dump the option, Obama just might have his finger on something that can get him through this health care showdown: the “trigger” option
More than two dozen times in the past three years, authorities came to Phillip and Nancy Garrido’s ramshackle home at 1554 Walnut Ave. in Antioch, California, a rural property where Jaycee Dugard is said to have been confined for 18 years
Vehicles began streaming across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge early Tuesday — a day ahead of schedule — after the completion of repairs to a crack in the structure’s east span. Commuters began driving over the bridge around 6:40 a.m
You know that fat in your body you wish you didn’t have? It turns out those cells could be used to create stem cells that one day may be able to cure disease.
The expulsion of a U.N. official from Sri Lanka is final and he has to leave the country by September 21, the government has told the agency
A spate of roadside bombings in Iraq killed four U.S. troops and a civilian Tuesday, authorities said