NEW YORK -- Sinclair Broadcast Group will divest 23 TV stations aimed at clearing the path for its merger with Tribune Media, the company announced Tuesday.

The sale of the stations would occur after the close of Sinclair's $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune's 42 TV stations. The deal would give Sinclair ownership or operational control of 215...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Rapper Meek Mill plans attend Tuesday night's Philadelphia 76ers playoff game, according to a spokesman for Michael Rubin, a minority owner of the team who has been among the imprisoned rapper's biggest supporters.

Ron Berkowitz, an aide to Rubin, said in a telephone interview Tuesday afternoon that "the plan is to bring (Mill) ...Read more

NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- Bill Cosby's lawyers likened the legal woes and sex scandals that have dogged their client for years to "witch hunts" and "lynchings" and urged jurors Tuesday to reject Andrea Constand's claims that she was one of the comedy icon's final victims.

Delivering a final pitch to the jury, attorney Kathleen Bliss confronted head-on...Read more

Musician Bob Dorough, 94, best known as a composer and performer for ABC's educational series of short cartoons "Schoolhouse Rock!," died of natural causes at his Mount Bethel, Pa., home on Monday, his son, Chris, said. Originally a jazz musician, he "set the multiplication tables to music" as musical director for the educational cartoon series ...Read more

Verne Troyer, the actor best known for his role as Mini-Me in the "Austin Powers" franchise, had a blood alcohol level three times the legal driving limit hen he died on Saturday, according to a report.

TMZ says Troyer called 911 and let dispatchers know that he was suicidal. He was unresponsive upon arrival at the hospital and had to be ...Read more

INDIO, Calif. -- About the only secret that got out ahead of Beyonce's tightly guarded performances at the just-wrapped Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was the fact that the singer planned to reunite her era-defining girl group, Destiny's Child.

But the spread of those rumors hardly diminished the feeling of triumph when Beyonce ...Read more

INDIO, Calif. -- A quarter into Beyonce's triumphant, charged showing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival came a particularly poignant moment.

With the pop star floating high above the crowd via a hydraulic crane, Nina Simone's mournful version of "Lilac Wine" poured from speakers as two muscular dancers were intertwined in movement...Read more

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

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24: Maze Runner: The Death Cure

24: Den of Thieves

24: Paddington 2

24: Hostiles

24: Forever My Girl

24: Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

24: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

24: Backstabbing For Beginners

24: 7 Guardians of the Tomb

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The French-Turkish director Deniz Gamze Erguven stunned with her first film, "Mustang," the Academy Award nominated portrait of an unbridled Turkish girlhood straining at the strictures of patriarchy. Her follow-up film, "Kings," was originally intended to be her directorial debut, but the more ambitious project was sidelined for the intimate "...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A judge Monday set a September trial date in the murder case of former rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight, whose dramatic court saga stretches back more than three years.

The Death Row Records co-founder is accused of intentionally ramming his red Ford F-150 pickup into two men in the parking lot of Tam's Burgers following an ...Read more

Fox News host Sean Hannity said he had no direct discussions with the Department of Housing and Urban Development regarding loans for his real estate holdings revealed in a Sunday report by the Guardian.

The Guardian reported that Hannity has investments in shell companies that have bought real estate properties discounted after banks ...Read more

As one of the biggest stars in electronic dance music, Avicii operated with an implied faith in the value of the future.

"In the road of life, I tumble forward," went the words to his song "For a Better Day" -- lyrics that might have served as a kind of mantra for a Swedish DJ and producer whose creativity was closely tied to technology's ...Read more

Big battles are at the heart of this week's new DVD releases.

"12 Strong"; 2 stars: The film from director Nicolai Fuglsig looks at the team of Special Forces soldiers from Fort Campbell, Ky., who travels to Afghanistan just weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. The real story is one of 12 heroic souls who through working ...Read more