LOS ANGELES – The writing teams for the new ABC medical show “Grey’s Anatomy” and the NBC comedies “My Name Is Earl” and “The Office” scored double nominations Tuesday from the Writers Guild of America. The guild’s awards for 2005 for the first time include categories recognizing overall excellence in …

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TUCSON, Ariz. – Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered a perfectly decorated Christmas tree 2,500 light years from earth. Scientists at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory said the remarkable star cluster gives them the first glimpse of newborn stars acting just as predicted — patterned geometrically and …

HOUSTON – The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was set aglow with 30,000 colored lights at a joyful ceremony Wednesday featuring children displaced by Hurricane Katrina, singer Harry Connick Jr. and Mayor Michael Bloomberg. With temperatures in the high 40s, crowds packed the midtown Manhattan plaza for the festivities, which were …

LOS ANGELES – Valerie Bertinelli and her rock star husband, Eddie Van Halen, are divorcing after 24 years of marriage, Bertinelli’s publicist confirmed Tuesday. “Yes, that’s true. They have been separated for four years and it’s amicable,” Bertinelli spokeswoman Heidi Schaeffer told The Associated Press. She said the actress would …

SINGAPORE – Singapore executed an Australian heroin trafficker on Friday despite a warning by Australia’s prime minister that the hanging would sour relations between their countries. The case has caused an outcry in Australia where opponents of the execution held vigils in cities around the country, with bells and gongs …

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – An Israeli airstrike targeting a group of militants in the northern Gaza Strip killed two Palestinians and wounded seven others Thursday, Palestinian witnesses and health officials said. The airstrike appeared aimed at a group of three militants from the militant Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades gathered …

NEW YORK – Sure there’s nothing quite the same as having a loud, packed house for the holidays. There’s always food cooking, young children giggling past bedtime and those intense feelings of family togetherness that you only get once a year. But for some folks, there is something to be …

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PHILADELPHIA – A man prosecutors described as a brutal drug kingpin whose retaliation against witnesses threatened the core of the judicial system was convicted Friday of drug charges, money laundering and witness intimidation. A number of witnesses against Kaboni Savage, 29, have ended up dead, though Savage has denied any …