NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Carrie Underwood turned in one of the most-talked about performances with Steven Tyler at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards. Three months later, though, it was another performance that night in Las Vegas that was on her mind.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Two days after he walked through tornado rubble in Alabama, actor Charlie Sheen has begun an online campaign to raise money for storm victims.
NEW YORK – Students at a New York City public school working out to a Beyonce song got a big surprise when the superstar walked in and joined them.
LOS ANGELES – Charlie Sheen says he will donate $20,000 in profits and donations from a San Francisco show to the Giants fan who was severely beaten outside Dodgers Stadium.
LOS ANGELES – Charlie Sheen's tour is taking a softer approach when it arrives in San Francisco later this week, with a donation planned for a Giants fan severely beaten during the Los Angeles Dodgers' home opener.
SAO PAULO — American actresses Claire Danes and Jennifer Hudson have come to Brazil to promote the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
The foundation says on its website that Thursday night's fundraiser in Sao Paulo is the first benefit it has held in South America.
BOSTON – Donnie Wahlberg's Twitter skills have helped find a kidney for an ailing fan from Nashville, Tenn.
The New Kids on the Block bad boy singer tells the Boston Herald one of his 183,000 followers on Twitter retweeted a blog about a fan who urgently needed a kidney transplant.
PHILADELPHIA – Rocker Jon Bon Jovi is touring a new homeless shelter in Philadelphia for teens and young adults.
The Covenant House shelter in the city's Kensington neighborhood will house 20 formerly homeless people ages 18 to 21.
Many have aged out of the foster-care system or formerly lived on the streets.
TUCSON, Ariz. – Linda Ronstadt has donated orchestrations, memorabilia and photographs to the University of Arizona's school of music.
The singer's collection also includes manuscripts from Nelson Riddle, with whom Ronstadt had a longtime artistic relationship.
NEWNAN, Ga. – Movie mogul Tyler Perry delivered on a Christmas promise when he handed the keys of a new four-bedroom house to an 88-year-old woman who lost her rural Georgia home to a fire.
Rosa Lee Ransby and her seven grand- and great-grandchildren lost their home a week before Christmas.
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Recording artist Prince is making a $250,000 donation to a nonprofit group that aims to make sure all children in a Columbia, S.C., neighborhood graduate from college.
Prince's drummer and Columbia native John Blackwell Jr. made the presentation Tuesday to Eau Claire Promise Zone officials.
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