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Gold, sneakers, models? Fashion's Olympic moment
Who were those gowned women? Models had their moment at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics, with the likes of Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell ...
Changes in store for NBC's 'The Voice' this season
NBC's "The Voice" is adding a bit of thievery to its format. Executive producer Mark Burnett said Sunday that the singing contest will let coaches ...
Olympic Viewing: Boxing's decline
In an Olympics filled with television success, boxing has been a notable failure. NBC Sports covered the last two days of the tournament with its two ...
WR Chad Johnson released by Dolphins
As the Miami Dolphins took the field for practice Sunday, Chad Johnson was getting out of jail. Hours later, he was out of work. The Dolphins ...
Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux engaged
After years of breathless anticipation — at least on the part of the tabloids — Jennifer Aniston is finally ready to wed again. Her representative, ...
Military sexual assault is focus of YouTube series
The enormous obstacles and emotional torment that a female solider confronts in reporting a sexual assault in the military are the focus of the ...
Chad Johnson arrested on domestic violence charge
Dolphins receiver Chad Johnson was arrested Saturday on a domestic violence charge, accused of head-butting his newlywed wife during an argument in ...
Olympic Viewing: Men's basketball finale
You'll be happy to know this, Magic, Michael and Larry. Doug Collins is on your side. Collins, finishing up his fourth year as NBC's Olympic ...
NBC continues boxing without announcers in arena
NBC Sports is telecasting the final two days of the Olympic boxing tournament without announcers Bob Papa and Teddy Atlas in the arena following a ...
Olympic Viewing: Commercial crossover on NBC
If you occasionally have trouble telling where NBC's Olympic programming ends and the commercials begin, that's no coincidence. Mark Levy, vice ...
Escape attempt linked to Guy Fieri's Lamborghini
At least two suspects tried to break into a Marin County juvenile detention facility in what investigators believe was unsuccessful attempt to free ...
Zakaria suspended for copying other writer's work
Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has been suspended by both the magazine and the network for lifting several paragraphs by another ...
New middle class driving Brazil economic makeover
The orthodontist bent intently over Flavia Soares da Costa's open mouth, tightening the glimmering silver brackets that are remaking her smile.
London Olympics lead to gold-medal procrastination
Chores piling up. DVRs stuffed and groaning with unwatched favorites. Late, bleary strolls into the office. Welcome to the Great Olympic Time Suck, ...
Olympic Viewing: Blunt talk from Lisa Leslie
It's a good thing for the U.S. women's basketball players that they weren't near a television set at halftime of their semifinal game against ...
Survivor's video shows harrowing Idaho plane crash
The survivors of a plane crash in central Idaho can prove just how close they came to death, with a seven-minute video documenting their harrowing ...
2 NJ towns turn down 'Jersey Shore' spinoff
The Jersey shore town that tried to close its bars early and restricts overnight parking has said no to "Snooki & JWoww." The Point Pleasant Beach ...
Ann Curry returns to 'Today' set in London
Ann Curry, replaced as one of the NBC's "Today" show hosts in June, made a return to the show's set in London. Curry was on the "Today" set in London ...
Olympic Viewing: Getting ready for big one
Arlo White is just grateful that he recognized Alex Morgan's head. NBC's play-by-play announcer for Olympic women's soccer doesn't want to think about ...
Cavallari welcomes baby boy with fiance QB Cutler
Kristin Cavallari is a new mom. The former star of MTV reality shows "Laguna Beach" and "The Hills" has given birth to her first child, a boy named ...
Hutterites want apology for NatGeo television show
Leaders of a Hutterite colony are demanding an apology from the National Geographic Society and a pledge that it never again broadcast a television ...
Demoted policeman sues over Sheen escort in DC
A D.C. police captain who was demoted after actor Charlie Sheen received a police escort to his comedy show last year has filed a multi-million dollar ...
Fallon was asked, and passed, on Oscar host gig
Jimmy Fallon says he was asked to host next year's Academy Awards but declined the gig. The talk-show host told Matt Lauer Wednesday that "it's an ...
Famous NY diner relocated to Wyoming up for sale
Five years after a doomed New York City landmark was rescued and hauled from the Big Apple to Wyoming, the diner made famous in movies and television ...
Medical examiner: Actor Sherman Hemsley had cancer
A Texas medical examiner's office says cancer led to the death of actor Sherman Hemsley, who starred as George Jefferson in the hit television sitcom ...