Cassy Hayes and Jasmine Coleman were among the first fans to arrive outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles where Michael Jackson was brought and later pronounced dead. How had Hayes, 25, and Coleman, 21, heard the news so quickly? Twitter.

Thousands of fans waited Thursday outside the Apollo Theater to pay their respects to Brown, who died on Christmas Day at age 73. As they stood in the cold, many spoke passionately about Brown's impact on their lives.

At times downright hard to sit through, this film might easily have been turned into a dark comedy by someone who had an interest in mainstreaming it for mass consumption, but Mary - not unlike the controller she plays in the film - chose to go the "relentlessly un-self reflective" route (to borrow a phrase used by one of her crew) by keeping the narrative entirely naturalistic.

An appellate court has upheld Ronald Isley's 37-month federal prison sentence for tax evasion.

The father and sister of Ronald Goldman say by seizing control of the O.J. Simpson book, ''If I Did It,'' they are punishing the man they believe murdered their loved one.

The Navy has removed a video from YouTube shot aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan because it shows sailors using safety equipment inappropriately, a Navy spokesman said.