Yesterday on his radio show, host Glenn Beck talked about Michael Jackson and his ownership of the publishing rights to the Beatles catalog of songs. Most people know that in 1984 Michael Jackson bought the rights to the Beatles’ songs, but Beck was making the point that most people don’t know that the reason the…

Show Hope, the adoption ministry of Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman, announces the official opening July 2 of Maria’s Big House of Hope in Luoyang, China. As the finishing touches are being made to this healing home for special needs orphans, the offices of Show Hope, located in Franklin, Tennessee, celebrated stateside for the…

The Associated Press reports that entertainer Fred Travalena died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 66. Travalena suffered from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that first surfaced in 2002. The cancer resurfaced in 2008. Travalena is survived by his wife of 39 years, Lois; sons Fred IV and Cory; daughter-in-law, Kelly; and a granddaughter.Travalena was best known for…

Yesterday was an historic day in pop culture. First came news in the morning that 62-year-old actress Farrah Fawcett succumbed to cancer after a three-year battle. Then, while media outlets were gearing up for feature stories on the former “Charlie’s Angels” beauty, news broke in the afternoon that 50-year-old pop icon Michael Jackson had died…

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