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NEW YORK (AP) ―

The Olsen twins are hoping to spread a little “Influence.”

Mark-Kate and Ashley Olsen are working on a coffee table book about fashion, called “Influence,” that a division of Penguin Group (USA) will release in the fall.

According to a statement issued Wednesday by Penguin, the book will include “exclusive photographs of Ashley and Mary-Kate from world renowned photographer Rankin, and a wide variety of other never-before-seen materials and interviews from Mary-Kate and Ashley’s personal collections.”

The Olsens will be writing about such artists and designers as Bob Colacello, Terry Richardson and Jack Pierson.

“Mary-Kate and I have filled ‘Influence’ with the most interesting, challenging, creative people we know — the ones who helped pave the way for us and our generation,” Ashley Olsen said in a statement.

“Ashley and I interviewed the people who have inspired us, with the hope that they will inspire and teach others,” Mary-Kate Olsen said in a statement.

(© 2008 The Associated Press.

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LONDON (AP) ―

A British judge will give the financial terms of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills’ divorce settlement on March 17.

The Judicial Communications Office said Judge Hugh Bennett would deliver his ruling to McCartney, Mills and their lawyers during a private court hearing.

He will then decide, after hearing from their lawyers, whether to make any of the ruling public.

In Britain, divorce cases are heard behind closed doors, but the secrecy has only spurred speculation about the possible size of a financial settlement.

Mills, 40, and McCartney, 65, separated in 2006 after four years of marriage.

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NEW YORK (CBS) ― Reese Witherspoon has an obsession that she says has led her to some questionable behavior.

But unlike her Hollywood contemporaries, it’s not excess partying or shopping that gives her a rush - it’s garbage.

“I like to throw a lot of things away. Particularly at Christmas, it makes me a little crazy when the trash is overflowing,” she told Ellen Degeneres on an interview airing on the comedian’s talk show Thursday.

“So then I put on rubber boots and I literally get into the trashcan and I stomp on the trash and Deacon (her son) thinks it is so great. (Read the full post about ‘Reese Witherspoon Reveals Dirty Secret To Ellen’…)

NEW YORK (AP) ― Whoopi Goldberg has accepted an apology from producer Gil Cates for not including her in a montage featuring Oscar hosts during Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast.

Cates called her Tuesday and “talked about the fact that he had made an oversight, pure and simple. He said, `You know I love you,”‘ Goldberg said Wednesday on ABC daytime talk show “The View.”

Goldberg, who called Cates a “great gentleman,” accepted his apology.

She said she has “moved on” since choking up on Monday’s show when her fellow co-hosts discussed how she was left out of the clip.

The 52-year-old actress-comedian hosted the Oscars in 1994, 1996, 1999 and 2002. (Read the full post about ‘Whoopi Goldberg Accepts Apology For Oscar Snub’…)

NEW YORK (CBS News) ― William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right’s post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.

His assistant Linda Bridges said Buckley was found dead by his cook at his home in Stamford, Conn. (Read the full post about ‘Author William F. Buckley Jr. Dead At 82′…)

BRENTWOOD, N.H. (WBZ) ― The man who prosecutors accused of running the Seabrook crematorium, where investigators found unlabeled ashes and an improperly stored body, will spend the next year-and-a-half to three years in state prison. Derek Wallace of Salisbury, Massachusetts was sentenced Thursday, months after pleading guilty to four felony tax fraud charges. Wallace must also make restitution to the New Hampshire Department of Revenue to the tune of $240,000.

Wallace’s criminal record will show he’s a tax cheat. But three people who gave victim impact statements say he cheated them of something else.

“Peace of mind,” said Diana Smith. (Read the full post about ‘NH Crematory Owner Sentenced’…)

BOSTON (WBZ) ― If you like to text when you ride the T, you might want to keep a tighter grasp on your Sidekick.

The pricey T-Mobile devices that are popular with kids are the new prime target for thieves.

So far this year, they’ve snatched 23 Sidekicks from the hands of unsuspecting T riders - most of them teenagers.  

One robbery was at gunpoint.
 
“Basically they have their heads down,” said Transit Police Sgt Michael Rutledge.

“They’re not paying attention to their surroundings and people are taking advantage of that opportunity. (Read the full post about ‘Sidekicks Being Stolen On The T’…)

MALDEN, Mass. (WBZ) ― Family members say a woman’s body found in the trunk of a car on Faulkner Street in Malden Wednesday afternoon is that of a missing Lynn woman.

Norma Dorce Gills, 37, hadn’t been seen or heard from since she went out for coffee on Feb. 13.

Gills owned the Scruple hair salon on Salem Street in Malden, just a few blocks from where her body was found inside the trunk of her car.

Gills’ brother, Jules Dorce, said police told him they are “99 percent sure” that the body is his sister’s.

“They advised me that they found Norma’s car with a body inside,” said Dorce. (Read the full post about ‘Family: Body Found In Trunk Is Missing Lynn Woman’…)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Work is under way to transform the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum into a baseball stadium for the Dodgers’ March 29 exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox.
 
The game is expected to draw the largest baseball crowd in U.S. history.

There have been 90,505 tickets sold, the most for any baseball game since 1959, according to Dodgers spokesman Josh Rawitch.

About 25,000 standing room tickets go on sale Saturday.

The Coliseum was the site of the largest crowd for a baseball game in U.S. history — 93,103 for a May 7, 1959, exhibition against the New York Yankees honoring catcher Roy Campanella, who was paralyzed in an auto accident. (Read the full post about ‘90,000 Tickets Sold For Red Sox-Dodgers Game’…)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (WBZ) ― A Harvard University recreation center will be open for women only for about 4 hours each week so Muslim women won’t have to exercise in front of Muslim men.

It’s a plan that has been in the works for awhile, school officials said.

But some students said they feel the policy goes too far.

“For a college to deny half the campus a resource after tuition has been paid and after they have already come to the college seems unfair,” said student Lucy Caldwell.

The women’s-only workout is just a pilot program currently. Attendance has been low so far.

(© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc.

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