LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brittany Murphy was ill with flulike symptoms in the days before she died, and prescription medications have been taken from her home, coroner's officials said today. ...more

December 21, 2009

Few stories impact as strongly as Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Color Purple." The bittersweet travails of Celie, Sofia, Nettie and Shug - four very different Southern black women who are, in many ways, equally repressed - tug the heartstrings, regardless of gender, age or race. ...more

November 23, 2009

Maura Tierney says she is dropping out of the new NBC series "Parenthood" to continue her treatment for breast cancer. ...more

September 11, 2009

"Saturday Night Live" has cut a cast member just a day after word of two new hires became public. ...more

September 4, 2009

"Grey's Anatomy" star Katherine Heigl says she's ready to stay with the ABC medical drama if the show decides to keep her character around. ...more

March 27, 2009

A cast of performers at Masque Community Theatre is itching to present ... the rest of the story. ...more

March 18, 2009

A new era began Monday in the time slot commonly known as "12:30" (more accurately, 12:37 a.m.) as Fallon arrived with a new-era version of "Late Night," flush with his wired-up personality, a classy, comfy set and a super-cool house band, the Roots. ...more

March 3, 2009

The Durant High School Drama Department will present "Funny Girl" at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the school auditorium, 4748 Cougar Path. ...more

February 26, 2009

Things To Do is a list of some interesting upcoming events. Friday and Saturday Get Ready To Laugh ...more

February 18, 2009

"Grey's Anatomy" cast member James Pickens Jr. says the medical drama will be saying goodbye to Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight. Pickens, who plays Dr. Richard Webber on the ABC series, told Us Weekly magazine that Heigl and Knight are leaving. ...more

February 10, 2009