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Mayors from around the country want to fix their cities infrastructure problems and create thousands of jobs. They're asking congress for $73 billion to finance projects they say are ready to go. But after a close examination, the I-Team's Leisa Zigman found some items that might raise a few red flags.

Lisa Marie Presley is expressing her condolences over Jett Travolta's death and defending Scientology, the religion that Presley, John Travolta and Kelly Preston follow.

Some St. Louis actors could land speaking parts in George Clooney's new movie, "Up in the Air."

Jett Travolta's body shows no sign of head trauma and his death certificate says he was killed by a seizure, an undertaker said Monday, as the 16-year-old's celebrity parents prepared to return his remains to the United States.

President-elect Barack Obama's two daughters were whisked into their new schools on Monday past a line of waiting photographers.

Awkward post-show marriages! Even more awkward post-show arrests!
It's another girl for Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck.

Thursday's championship football game between No. 2 Florida and No. 1 Oklahoma is obviously a big game, but big enough to shut down Congress?

Who's the fiance?
Ron Asheton, the guitarist for the Stooges whose raw sound helped inspire the first generation of punk musicians, has died. He was 60.
You couldn't miss the wedding band on Craig Ferguson's ring finger when he returned to CBS' "The Late Late Show" from his holiday break.

Jettisoned by his longtime co-host Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes was adopted by Stephen Colbert -- for a day, at least.

Patrick Swayze says his yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer put him "through hell" while he pushed ahead on his new TV series.

The seventh season of NBC's the 'Biggest Loser' kicks off Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m.

Bling

" I thought it was a joke," said fifth generation Maryland dairy farmer Michael Iager of Frederick's Bulldog Holstein farm.

Lindsay Lohan says she hasn't split with DJ Samantha Ronson, despite media reports they had publicly sparred several times over the holidays.

British singer Amy Winehouse dropped her appeal in a Norwegian drug case and will accept a fine for illegal marijuana possession in 2007, her attorney said Tuesday.

The good girl gone bad has promised to be good for one night.

At a time when prices for everything seem to be on the rise, a restaurant is offering old fashioned prices for the day.
One man's teeth are strong enough to take more than a bite out of things.

An attorney for fugitive movie director Roman Polanski is seeking to have the Los Angeles County Superior Court removed from his notorious sex case, accusing the court on Monday of bias and prejudice against Polanski.

A new study shows that more than half of teenagers mention drugs, alcohol, sex or violence on their MySpace pages. Yet getting teens to clean up their pages is easier than many might assume, researchers say.
Meg Cabot tools around Key West on bicycles whose colors - pink, purple and turquoise - match the covers of her popular Princess Diaries series.

After starring in the 1950s domestic drama Revolutionary Road, now playing in select cities, Leonardo DiCaprio will remain in a period time warp for Shutter Island, his fourth collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.

As consumers start hooking up converter boxes in anticipation of the nation's big switch to digital TV next month, one thing is becoming crystal clear: TV pictures.
If you want to lose weight in 2009 without spending a fortune, consider embracing the theme of USA TODAY's sixth annual Weight-Loss Challenge: Dieting on a Dime.

Huge rebates and zero-percent loans couldn't overcome economic uncertainty as U.S. auto sales plunged 36 percent in December, capping a dismal year that saw sales free-fall by 2.9 million vehicles from 2007.
Early January is historically the biggest time of the year in consumer technology.

Patricia Arquette has filed for divorce from her actor-husband.