SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Angelina Jolie traveled up the California coast to receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s “Performance of the Year” award. The 32-year-old actress was honored Saturday for her portrayal of Mariane Pearl, wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, in the film “A Mighty Heart.” It’s one …

LOS ANGELES – News Corp. has approached the four major record labels to discuss launching an online music service through its popular MySpace social networking site, music company executives familiar with the talks say. The media conglomerate envisions a one-stop music service that offers content in various ways, including via …

TOKYO – The U.S. military will slap a curfew on all troops in Okinawa, their families and civilian staff Wednesday following the arrest of a Marine on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl, a news report said. Kyodo News agency said the restriction, which would extend a midnight curfew now …

LOS ANGELES – The strike is off and the star power is on for the 80th annual Academy Awards. Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus, George Clooney and Nicole Kidman will be among the presenters at the Feb. 24 ceremony at the Kodak Theatre, Oscar officials announced Thursday. …

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – Police at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville say they arrested a student who was reportedly carrying weapons on campus. Police say the charges against 22-year-old Stephen Vories of Glen Carbon came after a sergeant in the school’s ROTC program reported that Vories appeared to be making threats on …

Dolly Parton is postponing her U.S. tour for six to eight weeks because of back problems created by her breasts, according to a statement posted Monday on her music Web site. “I know I have been breaking my neck and bending over backwards trying to get my new Backwoods Barbie …

WASHINGTON – A telescope arms race is taking shape around the world. Astronomers are drawing up plans for the biggest, most powerful instruments ever constructed, capable of peering far deeper into the universe — and further back in time — than ever before. The building boom, which is expected to …

LAS VEGAS – A former beauty queen who was stripped of her tiara after racy photos of her appeared on the Internet has been freed from jail following her arrest on traffic offenses. Katherine N. “Katie” Rees, 23, a former Miss Nevada USA, was held for about 12 hours at …

Greta Van Susteren tells FOXNews.com how “On the Record” pressed police and prosecutors to further the investigation into the death of Drew Peterson’s third wife Kathleen Savio, which ultimately led authorities to exhume her body and get a second autopsy. A third followed. The results showed that 40-year-old Savio’s 2004 …

DAVIS, Calif. – Ice cream maker Haagen-Dazs is donating $100,000 to the University of California, Davis, to research an alarming decline in the bee population. The money will go for research on “sustainable pollination” and the phenomenon known as colony collapse, a disorder in which bees abandon their hives. About …