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Market Update - Energy stocks turned lower Thursday as crude-oil prices backed off storm-driven overnight highs and bearish natural gas inventory data deflated the gas sector. 
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LAS VEGAS - Marion "Suge" Knight has been released from a Las Vegas jail. The founder of bankrupt Death Row Records posted $19,000 bail Wednesday and promised to appear in Las Vegas Justice Court on Sept.
MIAMI - Rapper DMX, in a plea bargain with prosecutors over a Miami drug case, was sentenced Wednesday to time already served and now awaits extradition to face other charges in Arizona.
LOS ANGELES, Aug 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Actress Diane Farr has given birth to twin girls at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Sony Pictures Television announced Thursday.
CULVER CITY, Calif., Aug 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A Culver City, Calif., blogger reportedly was arrested for violating federal copyright laws by allegedly posting unreleased Guns N' Roses songs on the Internet.
DENVER - Kanye West's regret on the day Barack Obama was nominated for president: That his mother, Donda, hadn't lived to experience it.
LOS ANGELES - He does comedy, writes books, and mixes it up with the hottest stars in music and Hollywood. With all this, who needs swimming? Certainly not Michael Phelps - not anymore, at least.
MIAMI - Rapper DMX has pleaded out a Miami drug case and now awaits extradition to face more charges in Arizona. The 37-year-old rapper and actor pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted marijuana and cocaine possession and was sentenced to time served.
DENVER - Spielberg! Affleck! J.Lo! They were among the Hollywood celebrities attending events in Denver as the Democratic National Convention nominated Barack Obama as the party's presidential candidate.
SAO PAULO, Aug 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon is visiting Brazil this week to spread a message of female empowerment, Avon announced.
BOSTON, Aug 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- "Woman and Child," a valuable 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger, reportedly has gone missing from Wellesley College.
HOUSTON - A judge in Texas has ordered the father of actress and singer Hilary Duff to spend 10 days in jail for contempt of court.
DENVER - Screenwriter and actor Danny Strong is interviewing colleagues at the Democratic National Convention for an Associated Press video diary.
LOS ANGELES, Aug 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Hollywood actor Cuba Gooding Jr. has signed on to play the title character in "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story," TNT announced.
LONDON, Aug 27, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- British rock 'n' roll icon Paul McCartney says he "can't wait" to perform in Israel next month.
LOS ANGELES - A blogger suspected of streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" on his Web site was arrested Wednesday and appeared in court, where his bail was set at $10,000.
LONDON, Aug 28, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Author Salman Rushdie reportedly has won an apology in London High Court from a former bodyguard who made false claims against him.
LAS VEGAS - Marion "Suge" Knight was jailed Wednesday on assault and drug charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife near the Las Vegas Strip, police said.
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