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When corporate grinches dress up as Santa: A holiday peeve

'Tis the season when consumer companies fall all over each other trying to show their charitable sides. No one should have anything against that. What's irksome, however, is when they try to enlist us, the customers, in their marketing efforts, as...

Kobe Bryant, out most of season, still top guard in All-Star balloting

The Lakers' Kobe Bryant is still dominating the All-Star balloting, despite sitting out most of the season recovering from an Achilles' tendon injury. Back just two games, Bryant leads all NBA guards with 501,215 votes. On Thursday, the league...

U.S. sells rest of GM stock

WASHINGTON — The federal government closed the books on the taxpayer bailout of General Motors Co., selling the remaining shares in the nation's largest automaker and taking an expected $10.5-billion loss. The Treasury Department said Monday...

Fatal Hawaii plane crash triggers fresh conspiracy theories

A small plane with nine people aboard went down off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Molokai, killing one person -- the state's health department director, Loretta Fuddy. The Wednesday crash put an unexpected spotlight on Fuddy, 65, who had helped...

Kobe Bryant, out most of season, still top guard in All-Star balloting

The Lakers' Kobe Bryant is still dominating the All-Star balloting, despite sitting out most of the season recovering from an Achilles' tendon injury. Back just two games, Bryant leads all NBA guards with 501,215 votes. On Thursday, the league...

Sony Pictures leads studios with 15 Golden Globes film nominations

Buoyed by the seven nominations snagged by "American Hustle," Sony Pictures Entertainment led all studios with 15 Golden Globe nominations in film categories. Trailing Sony were 20th Century Fox Film with 10 nominations, the Weinstein Co. with nine, ...

Jimmy Kimmel finds out what the Mandela memorial interpreter said

People around the world are talking about Thamsanqa Jantjie, the supposed sign language interpreter who made nonsensical signs while President Obama and others spoke at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela in South Africa earlier this week. But only...

Two LAPD officers arrested, accused of false workers comp claims

Two Los Angeles police officers are being disciplined after department investigators allegedly found the two had lied under oath during their workers’ compensation claims. Officer Ralph Mendoza, 44, was relieved of duty after surrendering to...

NBC's next live musical? How about 'The Voice' does 'Wizard of Oz'?

The rousing success of NBC's live "The Sound of Music" presentation and reports that network honchos are seriously considering staging another live musical got us thinking here at Showtracker. What musical would be a great follow-up to "The Sound of...