Hurricane Earl has zeroed in on Nantucket Island and should hit the swank vacation spot sometime early Saturday morning...

Despite assertions to the contrary by the Obama administration, unemployment continues to move in the wrong direction. Latest numbers are at 9.6%...

The need to share can backfire. Just ask Paris Hilton, who was busted last week on cocaine possession. She told officers that the cocaine found in her purse couldn't have been hers, as it was a friend's purse --- and not hers. Well, turns out she posted a picture of "her new purse" on Twitter a few weeks back and it looks just like the one she had when busted. OOPS!...

Who knew tennis could be so electifying? A brawl between fans in the stands Thursday night briefly stopped a match between Novak Djokovic and Philipp Petzschner at the U.S. Open.

The Feds have sued Arizona sherfif Joe Arpaio for violating the civil rights of illegal aliens. Insert your own joke here...but it looks like the conservative movement has a "Joe the sheriff" to go along with "Joe the plumber"...

You would thinking spending $250K on a car would protect you from certain things...like catching on fire. Not so much in Italy. Ferrari is recalling 458 of their sport cars for randomly catching on fire. Nice!

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In an unprecedented act of celebrity philanthropy, the charitable foundation created by Johnny Carson has reported receiving $156 million from a personal trust established by the entertainer years prior to his January 2005 death, The Smoking Gun has learned. The nine-figure transfer from the late entertainer’s estate was disclosed in a tax return filed three months ago by the John W. Carson Foundation, records show.

Filling Simon Cowell‘s seat on American Idol was already a tough task –- now another chair is there for the taking. Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who became a full-time judge on the show during its ninth season, is bowing out of the series, PEOPLE has learned. “A couple months ago, I let FOX and the American Idol producers know that this didn’t feel like the right fit for me,” she says in a statement. 

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Lindsay Lohan surrendered to the court Tuesday to begin her 90-day jail sentence for violating probation in a DUI case. The actress, 24, arrived at the Beverly Hills courthouse in a motorcade to a crush of photographers and reporters. Somebody threw confetti toward her as she walked up the steps. One fan held a sign reading, "Free Lindsay." Read more...

Roman Polanski has made his first public appearance since being released this week from house arrest, attending the Montreux Jazz Festival on Saturday to watch his wife perform on stage. The 76-year-old film director arrived at the Lake Geneva festival Saturday evening in a sport utility vehicle with tinted windows. Read more...

Bawling and broken, Lindsay Lohan learned today that she's going back to jail. Beverly Hills judge Marsha Revel declared the 24-year-old starlet in violation of probation for her 2007 DUI conviction for failing to attend court-ordered alcohol education classes. Revel sentenced Lohan to 90 days in jail followed by 90 days in-patient rehab. Read more...

In one of the most explosive, racist and vile outbursts by a celebrity ever caught on tape, Mel Gibson told the mother of his love child that the way she was dressed would get her "raped by a pack of n***ers," RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively. It's a shocking and blockbuster development in the couple's bitter legal battle, and Mel's disgusting words are on audio tape. Read more...

CNN is preparing for a summertime search to find the successor to Larry King, who announced suddenly that he's leaving the show that has been the centerpiece of the news network's lineup for 25 years. Even though the host is changing, CNN will keep to the idea of a provocative interview show with newsmakers, CNN U.S. President Jon Klein said. Read more...