Updated: 5:00 PM St. Martin's Press bought the rights to Smart's memoir of her kidnapping at age 14 ten years ago

Posted: 11:47 AM Prosecutors say they won't file any charges against Justin Bieber over a May confrontation with a photographer

Posted: 8:39 AM Sesame Street's beloved Elmo character will continue despite the resignation of the puppeteer behind the character following sexual abuse allegations.

Updated: 1:42 PM Sesame Workshop says Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash has resigned from "Sesame Street" in the wake of allegations that he had sex with an under-aged youth.

Posted: 9:33 AM The bowler hat and cane that accented Charlie Chaplin's costume in "Little Tramp" has sold for $62,500 at an auction in Los Angeles.

Posted: 4:54 AM Lecompton residents are hoping Steven Spielberg's new movie about Abraham Lincoln will spur interest in the historic eastern Kansas town.

Posted: 12:28 PM The producers of "Sesame Street" say the actor who works the Elmo puppet and does the character's voice won't be returning to work right away.

Posted: 9:05 AM The Dave Matthews Band is giving $1 million to help Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts.

Posted: 2:57 PM The auction house said the original 1967 collage for the insert to the album sold to a bidder in London on Tuesday.

Posted: 1:33 PM It's been 100 days since the latest panda cub was born there. That's the day Chinese tradition at the zoo calls for the cub to get its name.

Posted: 2:55 PM The puppeteer who performs as Elmo on "Sesame Street" says he did have a relationship with a man who says he was 16 at the time the relationship began.

Updated: 1:41 PM The mother of "Modern Family" actress Ariel Winter denies allegations that she physically and emotionally abused her 14-year-old daughter.

Updated: 11:22 AM ABC says its national "Day of Giving" raised nearly $17 million for Superstorm Sandy relief.

Posted: 9:50 AM MTV, home of the "Jersey Shore" reality show, plans to air a fundraising special to help rebuild New Jersey's devastated shoreline.

Posted: 3:13 PM Disney is paying $4.05 billion to buy Lucasfilm Ltd., the production company behind "Star Wars," from its chairman and founder, George Lucas. It's also making a seventh movie in the "Star Wars" series.

Posted: 9:35 AM Authorities say a security guard at Tom Cruise's Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion used a stun gun on a trespasser who turned out to be an intoxicated neighbor who may have mistakenly entered the property.

Posted: 8:50 AM Former American Indian Movement activist and actor Russell Means has died.

Posted: 10:58 AM Entertainer Flavor Flav is free from a Las Vegas jail pending a court appearance next week on felony assault and misdemeanor domestic battery charges.

Posted: 8:48 PM The lawsuit alleged contestants for "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" are chosen based on race.

Posted: 1:47 PM The former Beverly Hills home of the late Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla is up for sale for a cool $12.9 million.

Updated: 11:10 AM ABC's Robin Roberts has come home from the hospital three weeks after undergoing a bone marrow transplant.

Posted: 10:57 AM Sammi Kane Kraft, whose baseball skills earned her the role of a youth league pitcher in the 2005 remake of "The Bad News Bears," has died in a Los Angeles car crash.

Updated: 11:21 AM Alex Karras, who gained fame in the NFL as a fearsome defensive lineman and later as an actor, has died. He was 77.

Posted: 9:48 AM Police were called to Lindsay Lohan's childhood home in suburban New York after a report of a fight between the troubled actress and her mother.

Posted: 2:14 PM Charlie Brown and his "Peanuts" pals are coming to the big-screen.