The editor of the Los Angeles Times, James O'Shea, has been fired over a budgetary dispute only 14 months after he took over the post, the newspaper said on Sunday.  O'Shea, a veteran of the Chicago Tribune who was hired by the Times in November 2006, was fired by publisher David Hiller after he refused to carry out some $4 million in cuts, said the newspaper on its Web site, citing an unnamed source. The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Police in Newmarket, N.H. are investigating whether a recent ad on craigslist offering to sell a baby is true or just a hoax.  The ad in part reads, "My daughter is almost 1-year-old and is driving me nuts... if you have always wanted a child of your own and you either (expletive) or can't get approved for adoption then this is you," MyFoxBoston.com reported.

More Than 120 Films Slated For Event...PARK CITY, Utah -- The same writers strike that transformed the Golden Globes into a news conference might bring smiles to the faces of agents and filmmakers gathered in this snow-covered ski town. They're hoping that studios will spend more freely than usual at the Sundance Film Festival, buying up independent movies to fill release schedules that have begun to thin as the Writers Guild of America work stoppage continues.

WHC Staff Writer (Jamie Murphy)..Maybe you have, if you’ve learned about the Bubonic Plague of the early 1500‘s. Rats infested the streets, sickening and killing hundreds because the populace mindlessly left trash about the towns.  Just recently I recalled that very history lesson after I was introduced to a whole new type of building, ’green architecture’. Something that was perhaps best defined by...

The Associated Press began preparing Britney Spears’ obituary within the past month, Usmagazine.com reports.  "We are not wishing it, but if Britney passed away, it’s easily one of the biggest stories in a long time," AP entertainment editor Jesse Washington tells Us, referring to the 26-year-old pop star.

The Hollywood directors' union reached a contract deal with major film and TV studios on Thursday in a move likely to renew momentum for settling a 10-week-old writers strike that has crippled the industry and clouded the year-end Oscar season.  The studios' tentative three-year labor pact with the Directors Guild of America (DGA) includes provisions to pay...