Ann Suh

Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy to successfully destroy cancer tumors in patients with advanced disease -- a goal that has taken 20 years to achieve.

Casey Anthony, the Florida woman who was found not guilty recently of murdering her two year-old daughter, is the most hated person in America, according to a new poll that tracks public perceptions of celebrities.

Two men charged in the Opening Day beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodger Stadium pleaded not guilty on Wednesday and were ordered held on $500,000 bail.

At Charlie Sheen's faux funeral on "Two and a Half Men," there will definitely be tears -- of laughter.

Customs agents have seized three gallons of a chemical used to make the date rape drug GHB at Los Angeles International Airport amid a surge in illegal shipments of the intoxicant, authorities said on Wednesday.

U.S. regulators are moving quickly with Roche's (ROG.VX) application for targeted melanoma drug vemurafenib, which could receive approval as early as this week, according to a source familiar with the situation.

Since being handed his pink slip nearly two weeks ago, award-winning L.A. Times columnist Tim Rutten has told KCRW and KPCC that he was forced out of the paper where he worked for nearly four decades because of cost-cutting and, he implied, ageism.

Telemundo is about to get mucho mas grande in the local-news department.

More than 150 independent record labels were dealt a huge blow on Monday night, when a facility owned by Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation was destroyed in a fire that resulted from the riots that have torn through England in the past three days.

With its "Smurfs" becoming perhaps the biggest surprise hit at the box office this summer, Sony announced Tuesday that it's moving forward with a sequel.

SunPower Corp on Tuesday lowered its 2011 profit outlook but backed its revenue and gross margin forecasts, saying demand for solar panels is strong after a tumultuous first half of the year.

The remarkably well-preserved body of a scuba diver who sank and vanished 17 years ago in Lake Tahoe has been found on an underwater ledge deep in the mountain lake, authorities said on Tuesday.

Movieclips.com, which has compiled the largest collection of licensed Hollywood film clips on the web, will partner with Google to bring more than 20,000 HD clips to YouTube.

Wall Street investors may look past an advertising rebound and a strong box office for Walt Disney Co and instead zero in on the outlook for its sprawling theme park unit as economic uncertainty grips consumers.

Oleg Cassini's widow, Marianne Nestor-Cassini, has slapped Conde Nast with a $10 million lawsuit alleging defamation over a September 2010 Vanity Fair piece that examined the intra-familial legal battle over the late designer's estate.

ABC's reality series "Bachelor Pad" failed to overtake "Hell's Kitchen" and "MasterChef" with its second season premiere on Monday night, handing an overall win to Fox, according to preliminary numbers.

Following on the heels of its "Hawaii Five-0" revamp -- not to mention ABC's upcoming "Charlie's Angels" remake -- CBS has ordered a script for a "Bewitched" revamp, an individual with knowledge of the project confirmed to TheWrap.

For those who like their celebrity memorabilia "hot," a Beverly Hills auctioneer has just the right sale -- fine art, jewelry and other items once owned by "Some Like it Hot" actor Tony Curtis.

It may be that we don't need another line of pop hits remade by barely identifiable reality-show contestants or actors, when we already have more "American Idol" and "Glee" albums than America's shrinking music-retail shelves can hold.

Saab's parent is in "real and substantive" talks with potential investors, the automaker's North American president said on Tuesday.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's lawsuit against Dick Clark Productions will go to trial this month, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Two nights before playing this past weekend's Lollapalooza, Coldplay joined the Grammy Foundation, about 2,000 winners and invitees, and Samsung and AT&T for a one-off private concert at the UCLA tennis center -- the Samsung Summer AT&T Summer Krush.

Caesars Entertainment, the world's largest casino operator by revenue, reported a narrower second-quarter loss after cutting costs.

Celebrity DJ and Lindsay Lohan's ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson was charged with drunken driving following her recent arrest in a small desert town in California, officials said on Tuesday.

A Nigerian-American man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stowing away on a commercial airline flight from New York to Los Angeles in an incident that revealed an apparent lapse in airport security.

Los Angeles will sell $275 million in bonds to tear down and relocate part of its convention center to make way for a $1.2 billion stadium for a National Football League franchise under a plan unanimously approved by the city council on Tuesday.

"The Help" needs no help from movie critics to lure the millions who've already read and loved the 2009 bestselling novel upon which it is based.

One of the worst Cuban accents in cinematic history is returning to the big screen. On August 31, "Scarface" will be in more than 475 movie theaters nationwide.

Zombies -- trendier than yesterday's vampires -- will hit the big screen on the first day of winter 2012, as Paramount releases "World War Z" on December 21 of next year, the studio announced Tuesday.