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For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.
Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife.
The jury in the trial of an Ohio police chief accused of breaking into the home of a woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick ended five hours of deliberations Friday without a verdict.
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New York designer Irina Shabayeva's collection took the gold in "Project Runway," winning $100,000 toward her line, an agent and a trip to Paris.
Fans who will be in the audience at "The Oprah Winfrey Show" say they're excited to hear the media mogul talk about her plans for the future.
Oprah Winfrey has racked up memorable moments during her long television reign. Some were moving, some embarrassing - to her or others - and a handful became pop-culture landmarks. Here are highlights through the years:
Heidi Klum and her post-baby body led the parade at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show, which returned to New York with some fresh faces after four years on the road.
Eddie Cibrian is suing Life & Style Weekly for defamation over a recent story claiming he was cheating on girlfriend LeAnn Rimes.
Court records show James Van Der Beek has filed for divorce from his wife of nearly six years.
The Miss California USA pageant director who became embroiled in a war of words with former title holder Carrie Prejean has donated 30-seconds of free ad time to the state's largest gay rights group.
For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.
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- MPEG3: Don Halcombe of Harpo Productions says Oprah Winfrey will announce Friday that her talk show will end in 2011.
- MPEG3: Senator Dick Durbin says this health care bill has been a long time in coming.
- AP Video Link: Winfrey to announce Friday show will end in 2011
- MPEG3: Susan Harrow, who wrote a book called "The Ultimate Guide to Getting Booked on Oprah," says even though the talk show host will be giving up her TV show, she probably won't lose any viewers in the process.
ABC says the final season of "Lost" will begin in February with a night devoted to the drama.
The woman who bore twin girls for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick said Thursday that she was living in a West Virginia motel around the time a police chief is accused of breaking into her eastern Ohio home.
You might say our national nightmare is over. Or is it just a TV series?
