01:04 PM EDT 07/04/2009
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Judge's Decision in Cyber-Bullying Case Sends Shockwaves
Originally posted 07/04/2009 01:00PM
Lori Drew says justice was finally served – though nearly three years late.
The defendant in the case of a MySpace hoax that ended in a girl's suicide applauded a federal judge for tentatively dismissing her conviction that could have resulted in up to three years in prison.
"In my view, it was proper that this case was dismissed, primarily because I simply did not do what the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles accused me of doing," Drew, 49, said in a statement Friday.
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Cameron Diaz Shows Her Tough Side
Originally posted 07/04/2009 12:00PM
The actress get sexy and edgy in a tattoo-filled photo spread and cover for V Magazine
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Susan Boyle Records First Song for New Album
Originally posted 07/04/2009 11:50AM
Susan Boyle took time out from the Britain's Got Talent tour to record the first track on her planned album with Simon Cowell's team, who are clearly excited by what they heard.
"She sounds fantastic on record," says Cowell. "She's so good, the album is not just going to be show tunes. We're going to take our time with this."
Boyle, 48, also visited the Sony Music offices in London last week to meet with executives, who are treating her gently. Mindful of the pressures and subsequent hospitalization after she finished second in the Britain's Got Talent final, the label says she could walk away from the project any time she wants.
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Taylor Swift's Painful July 4 Memories
Originally posted 07/04/2009 11:25AM
Taylor Swift says she has always loved "sparkly things," but as a child that would get her into trouble on Independence Day.
"I was always that little kid who would run around picking up used sparklers off the ground and I would inevitably pick up the SCALDING HOT BURNING end that was still smoldering," she writes on her MySpace Celebrity blog. "Then cue the screaming bloody murder in front of everyone and running into the house to ice your hand."
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Matt Damon Wants Hugh Jackman to Repeat as Sexiest Man Alive
Originally posted 07/03/2009 05:00PM
The political season is over, but Matt Damon is still on the campaign trail, pushing for PEOPLE's reigning Sexiest Man Alive Hugh Jackman to take the honor again this year.
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Sarah Palin Resigns as Alaska Governor
Originally posted 07/03/2009 04:35PM
Sarah Palin announced Friday that she will resign as Alaska governor later this month. She made no mention of pursuing another office, but her sudden move sparked speculation she is considering a run for the U.S. Senate or for the presidency.
"It hurts to make this choice but I'm doing what's best for Alaska," she said in a speech from the backyard of her home in Wasilla, with her husband Todd and children, Piper, Bristol and Willow, at her side. "You can effect change from the outside, and I can too."
She also said that her year-old son Trig, who has Down syndrome, needs her at home more.
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Tobey Maguire Reveals Baby Son's Name
Originally posted 07/03/2009 02:35PM
Tobey Maguire offered a bit of himself in naming his new son.
A rep for the Spider-Man star confirms that the latest addition to the family was named Otis Tobias Maguire. No explanation was given for the name Otis, though the baby's middle name of Tobias is the formal version of the actor's first name.
Otis was born May 8. Maguire, 34, and wife Jennifer Meyer, 32, are also parents to daughter Ruby, 2 1/2. The couple met in 2003 and married in 2007. – Mike Fleeman and Julie Jordan
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Online Lottery Set for Jackson Memorial Tickets
Originally posted 07/03/2009 01:40PM
Want a ticket to the Michael Jackson memorial on Tuesday? Log on, enter your name and hope for the best. Everybody else will have to watch it on television or on their computer screens.
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Michael Jackson's Doctor to Skip Memorial
Originally posted 07/03/2009 12:35PM
Michael Jackson's private physician is in seclusion, not speaking even with family and friends, and won't attend the singer's memorial next week, the doctor's rep tells PEOPLE.
"He will be mourning in private because he feels his presence would remind people of Michael Jackson's death, and the doctor would prefer that people remember his friend as he was in life," says Miranda Sevcik, a spokeswoman for Dr. Conrad Murray.
Police have questioned Murray about his treatment of Jackson. The doctor, hired by the promoter of Jackson's planned London concert series this summer, was with the entertainer when he was stricken June 25 at his Los Angeles home.
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It's a Girl for Cobie Smulders
Originally posted 07/03/2009 11:30AM
Cobie Smulders has met her daughter!
The How I Met Your Mother actress and her fiancé, actor Taran Killam, are the proud parents of a baby girl, PEOPLE has learned. Shaelyn Cado Killam arrived on May 16.
While attending an event in January with her co-stars – including fellow pregnant pal Alyson Hannigan – Smulders joked that the pair's topics of conversation were generally focused on baby.
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