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Twitter reaction to Whitney's death

RICH SCHAPIRO, DAVID BOROFF — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:10:31 -0500

Stars of the music industry turned to Twitter in droves to react to the passing of Whitney Houston, who died Saturday at the age of 48 just one day before the Grammy Awards.

Whitney Houston dead at 48

NANCY DILLON, RICHARD HUFF, RICH SCHAPIRO — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:05:16 -0500

Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, has died. She was 48.

Bobby Brown breaks down in tears

JANON FISHER — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:30:32 -0500

Bobby Brown, the faded boy band star who spent 15 tumultuous years married to Whitney Houston, broke down in tears Saturday night upon hearing of the platinum-selling diva’s death.

Whitney had rich bloodline

JANON FISHER — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:23:29 -0500

Whitney Houston was born to sing. The deceased pop star comes from a rich bloodline of soul singers and grew up around some of America's greatest female vocalists.

Whitney was Clive's masterpiece

RICHARD HUFF, DAVID HINCKLEY — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:29:21 -0500

Whitney Houston was record mogul Clive Davis’ masterpiece, and she died in the hours leading up to what was to be a night together at his famed pre-Grammy Awards party.

How Whitney rose to fame

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:58:14 -0500

How Whitney Houston rose to fame.

Whitney exuded sense of elegance

DAVID HINCKLEY — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:49:04 -0500

It was the death of an angel. Even though Whitney Houston had not been an angel for many years before she died Saturday. Even though her death in many ways was no more a surprise than the death of Amy Winehouse.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan leaves for Rome to become cardinal.

RICH SCHAPIRO, MARK MORALES — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:57:05 -0500

Carrying a leather bag and a hankering for fresh pasta, Archbishop Timothy Dolan set out for Rome Saturday night to become a cardinal. "I can taste the pasta already,” a beaming Dolan said as he bounded out of his St. Patrick’s residence about 6:45 p.m. “Going to Rome is like going home.”

Romney wins Maine caucuses by slim margin

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:35:09 -0500

Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster says Mitt Romney has won the Maine caucuses by a slim margin, giving him a much needed boost following losses in three other contests in the past week. The former Massachusetts governor defeated Ron Paul, the only other GOP hopeful competing in the state. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich did not actively participate in the contest.

CPAC picks Romney over Santorum as conservative favorite

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:14:53 -0500

Mitt Romney has won The Washington Times/CPAC Presidential Straw Poll of conservative activists. The former Massachusetts governor is favored as the Republican presidential nominee by 38 percent of the 3,408 respondents. Rivals Rick Santorum drew 31 percent, and Newt Gingrich was favored by 15 percent. All three candidates addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Friday.

DSM-5 lists Internet addiction among mental illnesses

RHEANA MURRAY — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:06:45 -0500

Surf the web too much? That might soon land you on a psychiatrist’s couch. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is catching heat over proposed amendments to its newest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) — widely considered the "bible" of psychiatric symptoms in the mental-health industry.

‘Last Lecture’ author Jeffrey Zaslow killed in car crash

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:32:05 -0500

Best-selling author Jeffrey Zaslow was killed Friday when he lost control of his car on a snowy road after promoting his latest book in northern Michigan. He was 53.

Obama backtracks on controversial birth control mandate

BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK and TRACY CONNOR — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:45:37 -0500

President Obama is abandoning a plan that would have forced faith-based groups to provide insurance coverage for birth control. An uproar over the new rule - led by New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan and the political conservatives - turned into an election-year nightmare for the White House.

Bloody blanket found in Josh Powell's storage unit

BRADEN GOYETTE — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:32:29 -0500

Investigators may have found an ominous clue in Susan Powell's long-unsolved disappearance, less than a week after her husband Josh Powell killed himself and their two sons in Washington state.

David Choe: I was offered oral sex in exchange for $2M

NINA MANDELL — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:01:03 -0500

A graffiti artist set to make an estimated $200 million from the Facebook IPO says his life was turned upside down after a New York Times reporter discovered him.

President Obama's birth control shift jeered

BRIAN BROWDIE — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:01:17 -0500

President Obama may have retreated on birth control, but Republicans aren't ready to declare victory just yet. The right is ripping the Obama Administration's attempt to appease religious groups who were furious about a federal rule requiring religiously-affiliated institutions to provide employees insurance covering copay-free contraception.

John Wayne Gacy may have had accomplices

ROLANDO PUJOL — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:00:00 -0500

The sordid saga of “Killer Clown” John Wayne Gacy has taken a new twist almost 20 years after he was executed for the torture, rape and killing of 33 boys and young men in 1970s Chicago.

Gabrielle Union’s hair weave flagged by TSA

AMANDA MIKELBERG — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:01:36 -0500

Gabrielle Union's hair is fly - but it almost grounded her at the airport on Wednesday.

Madonna stalker caught after hospital escape

NINA MANDELL — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:32:41 -0500

A crazed stalker who scaled a wall at Madonna's Hollywood Hills home and threatened to slit her throat was nabbed by police a week after he escaped from a psychiatric hospital, the Los Angeles Police Department said Friday.

Girls excluded from 'Red Tails' field trip

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:18:55 -0500

When 5,700 fifth-grade boys in Dallas' public schools recently went to see a movie about black fighter pilots in World War II, the girls stayed in school and saw a different movie instead.