ROME – Italian authorities say two single-seat aerobatic planes collided in the sky near Italy’s Adriatic shore and crashed into the sea, killing one pilot and injuring the other. Teramo’s fire department said that one plane crashed just offshore near Tortoreto, a town in central Italy, and that the pilot …

STOCKHOLM – Swedish police say the motorcade of visiting Indian President Pranab Mukherjee was involved in a traffic accident that left nine people with minor injuries. Uppsala police spokesman Christer Nordstrom says the president and other top dignitaries were unharmed in Tuesday’s accident, which happened as Mukherjee was heading to …

LOS ANGELES – “The Hills” hottie Lauren Conrad was actually happy to be made fun of as a guest character on an upcoming episode of “Family Guy.” “I thought it would be funny to see if we could get her to read very, very dense historical documents centering around the …

LOS ANGELES – California voters have twice rejected initiatives requiring that parents be notified before a minor can get an abortion, but supporters think the third time might be the charm this Election Day. Proponents of Proposition 4, which is favored in polls by 8 percentage points, think a key …

Justin Timberlake spent his weekend bopping around in a leotard, but behind-the-scenes his New York Restaurant “Southern Hospitality” is facing a legal woe. 26-year-old former busboy Felipe Ramales claims he worked at the high-end BBQ joint for over a year and for over 40 hours per week without earning overtime …

What’s the one thing in your closet you can’t live without? Jeans, obviously! You live in them! But how do you know the right style for you? First you identify your denim personality. As you saw in our video, you’re either a— Jean Aficionado, a Fashion Guy or The Everyman. …

Our guests this week:• Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice• Tom Ridge, former governor of Pennsylvania and McCain campaign national co-chair• Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Obama campaign national co-chair The conflict between Georgia and Russia continued to escalate this week, as a supposed cease fire never quite matched up with reports …

DENVER – Grateful Dead Back Together for Obama | Obama’s Celeb Ranks: A-List at the Invesco | Jacko Turns 50 Grateful Dead Back Together for Obama Barack Obama’s run for the presidency has launched many different grassroots campaigns. The most interesting may be the revival of the Grateful Dead. I …

A Republican lawmaker told me at the GOP convention in St. Paul that he wanted to outlaw gangs. Gangs? Okay, I thought. Aren’t there more appropriate issues for the feds to worry about? Energy? Fannie? Freddie? I presumed he was talking about the Bloods, the Crips and MS-13. Hardly. You’ve …

Lung cancer has been thrust into the spotlight again after the death of legendary actor and philanthropist Paul Newman at the age of 83. Newman died Friday only a few months after pictures surfaced of him looking frail and thin as he was wheeled from the Weill Cornell Medical Center …