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LOS ANGELES–Halle Berry says a paparazzi photographer went too far to get a shot of the actress holding her infant daughter, trespassing onto her private property and snapping them hanging out in the backyard.

PHOENIX–DMX rapped for reporters outside a Phoenix courtroom July 24 after pleading not guilty to felony charges of theft and identity theft. Then he plugged an album.

Tom Joyner, the self-proclaimed “hardest working man in radio,” was in Chicago July 25 doing a V-103 radio station promotion at MacArthur’s Restaurant, 5412 W. Madison Ave., on the West Side. Dozens of people lined up at the popular soul

Lee England Jr. is a man of many musical talents. He sings. He plays the bass, French horn, percussion, trumpet, keyboard and viola.

NEW YORK–A New York publisher is suing Foxy Brown and Lil’ Kim, saying they were paid advances for books they never delivered.

PARIS--Jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin, who played with America’s greats from Thelonious Monk to Lionel Hampton but chose to live in France, died hours before a concert, his agent said Saturday. He was 80.

So what is a celebrity dad to do on the occasion of his 80th birthday? Throw a party at a swank downtown nightclub and arrive in a stretch limo with a swarm of young, female admirers Velcroed all over him? That is how Joe Jackson, father of the famous Jac

LOS ANGELES–Al Reynolds continues to have a soft spot for Star Jones, despite their impending divorce. “I still very much love her,” Reynolds told The Associated Press. “I do. I can’t lie to you.” Jones’ soon-to-b

NEW YORK–James Brown mementoes ranging from his signature capes to a medical bracelet fetched thousands of dollars at a July 17 auction, which the soul icon’s children protested. Fans and collectors packed a Christie’s salesroom as more

Female hoofer Dianne “Lady Di” Walker comes to Chicago this summer as a featured tap dancer in the Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s Rhythm World. Chicago Human Rhythm Project is the world’s first year-round presenter of American tap