Normally, acting up isn’t considered a good thing.  But one local non-profit organization is encouraging kids to do it in front of a live audience.  AWOL’s theater program, known as Act Up, will celebrate its fifth year this fall with open auditions for its annual production.

Bestselling Author Nicholas Sparks talks about his book, “The Last Song,“ the movie’s screenplay and Miley Cyrus.

After several delays, the Jacksons are in court today to finalize a custody agreement that gives Katherine Jackson guardianship of Michael’s three children.

A rock em sock em cab ride leads up to a show stopping and car stopping moment in Race to Witch Mountain. Dwayne, formerly known as the Rock, Johnson stars in this Disney remake. 

A slideshow of Michael Jackson photos and the 30th Anniversary of Billie Jean video to listen/watch

MIAMI (AP) — Newly released FBI files show agents across the country and at the highest level of the agency investigated “Deep Throat” — the 1972 porn movie, not the shadowy Watergate figure — in a vain attempt to roll back what became a cultural shift toward more permissive entertainment.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sarah Palin says she accepts David Letterman’s apology for the joke about her daughter.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Promoters for teen pop phenom Miley Cyrus have stopped selling tickets at the box office, a switch that will end the crush of parents and youngsters who swarmed Nationwide Arena when her tickets sold in 2007.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean says she lost her crown because of a comment she made about gay marriage and not because she had been skipping appearances.

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Madonna can get “Mercy,“ Malawi’s highest court ruled Friday. The court overruled a lower court, saying the pop star can adopt 3-year-old Chifundo “Mercy” James.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy when she said gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry, got the word from pageant poobah Donald Trump on Wednesday: “You’re fired.“

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawi’s highest court plans to announce Friday whether the pop singer Madonna can adopt a second child from the impoverished southern African country, the pop star’s lawyer said Thursday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — To reprise his role as Sam in “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,“ Shia LaBeouf played with pain — and paid with flesh.

NEW YORK (AP) — The new documentary “Food, Inc.“ begins with idyllic scenes of American farmland, panning from golden fields of hay to a solitary cowboy rounding up a herd of cattle. Then the camera zooms in on a grocery cart overflowing with packaged food and rolling down the aisles of a gaudily lit supermarket.

LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie isn’t in theaters yet, but it’s already producing the same sort of buzz and legal backlash that his last hit, “Borat,“ created.