Topic: United States

Black Fla. teen accused of attacking white man for listening to rap musicAuthorities in coastal Florida say a black teenager is accused of attacking a white man for listening to rap music and could be charged with a hate crime. Police took ...
A judge has approved the closing of the estate of country music songwriter Darrell "Wayne" Perry, ending a five-year feud between his children and their evangelist aunt over their inheritance. The judge in Hamilton, Ohio, settled the late songwriter's accounts on Monday, ...

Black Eyed Peas' E.N.D. tour has staying power

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Sitting in an Athens hotel room on a humid summer day in early July, Will.i.am recalls the days when he and his fellow members of the Black Eyed Peas made a collective $150 per show -- and were ...
A major US telecommunications industry group asked a federal court to block a law requiring mobile phone makers to warn customers that the gadgets are bathing them in radiation. The unprecedented ordinance was passed by the northern California city's elected board of ...

Music biz casts hopeful gaze on Swift's next album

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Fan anticipation is already building for Taylor Swift's "Speak Now," after the pop-country superstar revealed on Ustream that the follow-up to her multiplatinum album "Fearless" will be out October 25. But anticipation of a different sort is building ...
Veteran US singer Al Jarreau was in a stable but "worrying" condition in a French hospital on Friday after falling ill just before he was due to go on stage, health officials said. Jarreau -- whose jazz, pop and soul songs have ...
Veteran US singer Al Jarreau was in a "critical" condition Friday in a French hospital where he was taken after falling ill just before he was due to go on stage, health officials said. Jarreau, 70, who has won seven Grammy awards, ...

Jazz singer Jarreau in critical condition in France

PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. jazz singer Al Jarreau was in a critical condition in hospital in France on Friday after collapsing on stage the previous evening, hospital sources said. The 70-year-old singer collapsed during a concert in Barcelonnette in the southeast of ...
Former Run DMC member Darryl McDaniels voicing NYC ad campaign for safe child careFormer Run DMC member Darryl McDaniels is lending his voice to a public awareness campaign about safe child care. The hip hop artist is voicing radio ads as part ...
British rocker Elton John postpones nearly sold-out Ariz concert due to food poisoningA bout of food poisoning has caused the postponement of Elton John's scheduled concert at Tucson Arena. The Arizona Daily Star reports that Wednesday night's show was nearly sold out ...
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