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Beverly Hills police are releasing some of the details surrounding the death of singer Whitney Houston.

The publicist for Whitney Houston has confirmed the superstar of pop music has died at the age of 48.

The CEO and chairman of memory chip maker Micron was killed in a plane crash early Friday near Boise, Idaho.  A Micron company spokesman says Steve Appleton, 51, was piloting the small, experimental, fixed-wing plane that crashed.

The popular burger joint "Wimpy" got extremely creative when it rolled out new braille menus for the blind last week.

Kim Jong Il, the eccentric leader of North Korea since 1994, has died at the age of 69. North Korea’s state-run KCNA news agency reported that after “great mental and physical strain,” he passed away of a heart attack at 8:30 a.m. Saturday while on a train during a “field guidance tour.”

The swashbuckling feline from the ‘Shrek’ franchise, ‘Puss In Boots,’ still has plenty of lives to spare after its weekend haul of $34 million, putting it at the top of the charts in its first week of release.

An Indian district held a renaming ceremony on Saturday that allowed more than 200 girls whose names mean “unwanted” to choose new monikers for themselves.

Former Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi, who’s been in hiding since August when a NATO-backed rebel force seized his headquarters in Tripoli, was killed on Thursday after rebels stormed his hometown of Sirte, where the last remnants of troops loyal to him were hiding. He was 69 years old.

Preliminary reports coming in from CNN suggest Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi has been killed during a raid on the town of Sirte where he was believed to have been hiding. We'll pass on more news once it becomes available.

NewsTalk 1280 WGBF will cover the President's speech tonight within the "Mark Levin Show."