Alex Trebek on his cancer: ‘My oncologist says I’m doing well, even though I don’t always feel it’

“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek says his cancer indicators have gone down – but his well-being hasn’t necessarily improved accordingly. “My oncologist says I’m doing well, even thoug...

Video: Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner get married in surprise wedding

LAS VEGAS – Joe Jonas was already having a big night: reuniting with his brothers for their band’s first performance at an awards show in a decade and announcing their upcoming tour. ...

John Singleton helped redefine American pop culture, and his impact is still being felt today

Everyone remembers their first time seeing “Boyz n the Hood,” the electrifying 1991 writing and directing debut of John Singleton, who died Monday at the age of 51. It was easy to be jolted ...

Sigourney Weaver helps school celebrate ‘Alien’ production

NORTH BERGEN, N.J. – Sigourney Weaver helped make a New Jersey high school’s encore stage production of “Alien” a special event. “Alien: The Play” had drawn widespread praise afte...

Jersey’s Springsteen prepares to release Western-style album

‘Western Stars’ to come out June 14

Actor Michael Madsen charged with DUI after SUV hits pole

MALIBU, Calif. – Prosecutors on Wednesday charged Michael Madsen with two misdemeanor counts of drunken driving after the actor drove his SUV into a pole last month. Madsen, 61, h...

Prince memoir ‘The Beautiful Ones’ to come out in the fall

NEW YORK – The memoir Prince was working on at the time of his death will be released Oct. 29. Random House confirmed Monday to The Associated Press that “The Beautiful Ones” will...

Carly Simon writing memoir about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

NEW YORK – Carly Simon is writing an “intimate, vulnerable” memoir about a very famous friend, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Farrar, Straus and Giroux announced Monday that Simon’s ...

Mariah Carey to receive Icon Award at Billboard Music Awards

NEW YORK – No artist has more No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart than Mariah Carey, so it’s only fitting that the singer will receive the Icon Award at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards...

Seymour Cassel, mischievous character actor of independent films, dies at 84

Seymour Cassel, an Oscar-nominated character actor who played raconteurs, street toughs and cha-cha-dancing hoodlums, frequently collaborating with independent filmmakers John Cassavetes and...

Tom Selleck, star of television and films, is writing memoir

NEW YORK – Tom Selleck is working on a memoir, and it won’t just be about acting. The “Magnum P.I.” star has a deal with Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. ...

Andre Williams, R&B singer and producer known as Mr. Rhythm, dies at 82

Andre Williams, an R&B singer and record producer whose talking, proto-rap style and strutting stage persona earned him the sobriquet “Mr. Rhythm,” died Sunday at a nursing home in Chicago. ...