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Candlelight vigil to memorialize two deputies shot dead when inmate overpowered them

iStock/Thinkstock(KANSAS CITY, Kan.) -- A candlelight vigil will be held Sunday night in Kansas to memorialize the two sheriff's deputies who were shot and killed when an inmate overpowered them outside a courthouse.Kansas City Mayor David Alvey said the vigil, which will take place in front of City Hall at 8 p.m. local time, will be the start of a long and trying healing process for the community of Wyandotte […]

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Yorkie stays with missing toddler all night, alerts search party with ‘weak bark’

@MSHPTrooperE/Twitter(QULIN, Mo.) --A loyal Yorkshire terrier stayed with a missing 3-year-old girl in a dense cornfield in Missouri all night -- and heroically led a search party to them with a "weak bark," authorities said.Remy Merritt and her dog, Fat Heath, had gone missing Thursday night in Qulin, triggering a desperate search that brought in some 150 volunteers, authorities said.But it wasn't until Fat Heath responded to barks from one […]

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High school freshman’s KKK outfit for school project ‘rattled’ students

iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- Incendiary images of a Los Angeles high school student dressed hood-to-toe as a Ku Klux Klan member as part of a final history project splashed online Friday, sparking an investigation and an apology from the school district.The photos of an unidentified freshman student enrolled at the Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy, located in the Wilmington section of Los Angeles, caused disquiet for many students."It made me feel like […]

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“Dancing With the Stars” pros Val Chmerkovskiy and Jenna Johnson are engaged

Photo by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) -- Dancing With the Stars is responsible for yet another love match! Two pros from the ABC show -- Val Chmerkovskiy and Jenna Johnson -- are engaged, they announced Thursday. According to photos that the couple shared on social media, Chmerkovskiy proposed to Johnson while on vacation in Italy, and she happily accepted. "I knew the moment I met you, you were the man of my dreams and I […]

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Kelly Preston talks seeing her husband John Travolta transform into mob boss John Gotti

Credit: Brian Douglas(NEW YORK) -- Longtime married couple John Travolta and Kelly Preston have worked together before, but in the new film Gotti the two play husband and wife for the first time ever. Travolta stars as notorious New York City crime boss John Gotti, while Preston plays Gotti’s wife Victoria. Preston tells ABC Radio that while they didn’t exactly discover anything new about themselves by working together this time […]

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Still the One that We Want: “Grease” celebrates 40th anniversary on Saturday

Paramount/Getty Images(HOLLYWOOD) -- Forty years later, fans are still hopelessly devoted to Grease. The iconic musical starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta celebrates its 40th anniversary this Saturday, June 16.  At the time of its release in 1978, Grease became the highest-grossing musical ever, breaking the 13-year record held by The Sound of Music.  It's currently the second highest-grossing live action musical, after the 2017 version of Beauty and the […]

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Wesley Snipes joining Eddie Murphy in Netflix’s “Dolemite” film

Photo by Joe Scarnici/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Wesley Snipes is set to star with Eddie Murphy in Dolemite Is My Name!, a biographical film about real-life actor and producer Rudy Ray Moore. Snipes joins a cast which also includes Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The New Jack City actor will portray D'Urville Martin, who directed the 1975 film, Dolemite, in which Moore starred. […]

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Joe Mantegna and Kirsten Vangness liken their long-running “Criminal Minds” to the Rolling Stones

©2018 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved (NEW YORK) -- Like a certain rock band, the cast of CBS' police procedural Criminal Minds has been at it a long time, and show no signs of slowing down. "I equate it to, you know, like the Rolling Stones," star Joe Mantegna  tells ABC Radio. "Like when they first got together and started playing together as a band, if you told them […]

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David Bowie’s death profiled in new episode of Reelz documentary

Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- A new episode of the Reelz docu-series Autopsy: The Last Hours of… focusing on the death of David Bowie will premiere this Sunday, June 17, at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. On the program, forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter takes an in-depth look at what may have led to the cancer that caused the rock legend's death in January 2016 two days after […]

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