NEWARK, N.J. Whitney Houston's funeral will be held Saturday in the church where she first showcased her singing talents as a child, her family choosing to remember her in a private service rather than in a large event at an arena.

ATLANTA The head of the Ray Charles Foundation is demanding the return of a $3 million gift given to Albany State University in south Georgia.

TRENTON, N.J. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he will order flags flown at half-staff at state government buildings Saturday in memory of Whitney Houston.

SOUTHFIELD, Mass. Dory Previn Shannon, who helped pen the score for the film "Valley of the Dolls" and the theme for "Last Tango in Paris," has died. She was 86.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. Kenny Rogers is suing Capitol Records, claiming the company has not properly paid him for digital downloads, ringtones and other uses of his songs.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Oprah Winfrey and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are among those scheduled to join Lady Gaga at Harvard University this month for the launch of the singer's Born This Way Foundation.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. The reunited Beach Boys will celebrate sunshine and summer at the 2012 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival with Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish and Bon Iver.

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's upcoming West Coast fundraising trip will feature a musical lineup worthy of Grammy gold.

LOS ANGELES Police say Whitney Houston's body has been taken to a Los Angeles-area airport for a flight to New Jersey.

NEWARK, N.J. Whitney Houston's funeral will be held Saturday in the church where she first showcased her singing talents as a child, her family choosing to remember her in a private service rather than in a large event at an arena.

WASHINGTON The White House is opening its doors in an invitation to the blues.

NEW YORK The Grammy Awards' warm embrace of Chris Brown three years after his assault of Rihanna has drawn the ire of viewers who claim the controversial R&B star shouldn't have been rewarded with such attention.

WASHINGTON The White House says President Barack Obama's thoughts and prayers are with Whitney Houston's family, especially her daughter.

NEWARK, N.J. A hearse under heavy police escort arrived late Monday at a funeral home officials said was handling the arrangements for late pop star Whitney Houston.

LOS ANGELES Sunday's Grammy Awards telecast made sweet music in the ratings, delivering for CBS its largest audience since 1984 and beating last year's viewership by 50 percent.

GREENSBURG, Pa. Dionne Warwick has postponed a Valentine's Day concert at a western Pennsylvania theater after the death of her cousin Whitney Houston.

MIAMI The U.S. government says plenty of evidence supports a federal jury's conviction of Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton on cocaine conspiracy and trafficking charges.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. The family of Waylon Jennings will soon release songs the country music icon recorded shortly before his death 10 years ago.

LOS ANGELES Grammy celebrants stepped out of the Staples Center and into tropical South America at the official awards-show after party.

NEW YORK Adele's songs about breakups and heartache have made her a multi-Grammy award winner but she insists she's done with all that.

LOS ANGELES Winners in selected major categories at Sunday's 54th Annual Grammy Awards:

LOS ANGELES Winners in selected major categories at Sunday's 54th Annual Grammy Awards:

NEW YORK Fashionistas shivered visibly on Sunday in a makeshift event space along the blustery Hudson River, where the Edun fashion label, founded by U2's Bono and wife Ali Hewson, was displaying its Fall 2012 collection. But the models wore bright, African prints that made one feel, at least momentarily, in a much warmer clime.

With an opening prayer and a moving tribute from Jennifer Hudson, the Grammy Awards played the part of impromptu memorial for Whitney Houston just a day after the six-time Grammy winner was found dead in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Whitney Houston was underwater and apparently unconscious when she was pulled from a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub, and she had prescription drugs in her room, officials said Monday as the regal pop star's family made arrangements to fly her body home to New Jersey for a funeral at the end of the week.

LOS ANGELES The Roots saved some of their love for Whitney Houston.

LOS ANGELES Diana Ross thinks she should receive a lifetime achievement Grammy for being a mother - not a music legend.

BERLIN Voters in the German city of Duisburg ousted their mayor in a ballot Sunday prompted by persistent anger at his refusal to quit following the deadly mass panic at the Love Parade techno music festival in 2010.

NEW YORK Singer and designer Gwen Stefani, one of the few celebrities who has stuck with her fashion brand for the long haul, offered a "That Girl" vibe at the New York Fashion Week show for her LAMB line.

JERUSALEM Israel's Black Hebrew community is mourning the loss of Whitney Houston, who famously visited them in 2003.

LOS ANGELES The splintered music world truly coalesces only one night of 365 for the Grammy Awards, and this year was united in the triumph of recovered British soul singer Adele's trophy haul and the tragedy of Whitney Houston's death.

LOS ANGELES Whitney Houston's last days were spent surrounded by family, catching up with old friends and doing a bit of what she was best known for: singing.

LOS ANGELES A coroner's official says Whitney Houston's body has been transported from the Beverly Hills hotel where the singer died and is awaiting an autopsy.

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. It was an emotional night for soul singer Bobby Brown as he performed Saturday night before thousands just hours after learning that his ex-wife Whitney Houston had died in Beverly Hills.

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. It was an emotional night for soul singer Bobby Brown as he performed Saturday night before thousands just hours after learning that his ex-wife Whitney Houston had died in Beverly Hills.

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. It was an emotional night for soul singer Bobby Brown as he performed hours after learning that his ex-wife Whitney Houston had died in Beverly Hills.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. It was a surreal scene: Whitney Houston had died at the Beverly Hilton, and hours later and a few floors below, her life was being celebrated at the event where her career was launched.

1963: Whitney Elizabeth Houston is born in East Orange, N.J. to gospel singer Cissy Houston on Aug. 9.

NEW YORK Whitney Houston's downfall was so long and sad that, in an impatient public's mind, it overshadowed her many accomplishments.

LOS ANGELES A collection of reactions to Whitney Houston's death:

LOS ANGELES A year ago, Clive Davis' glittery pre-Grammy showcase was winding down after a number of electric performances when the grandest name of all, Whitney Houston, walked on stage to close the evening with what promised to be a show-stopping tribute to her famous cousin, Dionne Warwick.

LOS ANGELES If the whole singing and acting thing ever falls apart for Jennifer Hudson, you might find her working at a tattoo parlor.

LOS ANGELES Producer RedOne says his goal in music was to "find the next Madonna or Britney (Spears)." Then he met an unsigned artist named Lady Gaga.

DETROIT The Detroit symphony has set what it believes is a record for the most viewers of a live, online performance by a U.S. symphonic group.

OSLO, Norway It's not the face of North Korea the world is used to: five young musicians adding a playful twist to one of the most popular Western pop songs of the 1980s.

LOS ANGELES She's been a sensation since she's been born, and now Blue Ivy has made her public debut.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. The annual pre-Grammy Clive Davis gala is so hot this year that even Diddy is getting calls from celebrities who are trying to get on the bill - and in the seats.

LOS ANGELES Tony Bennett performed on the very first Grammy Awards, and as he returns for the 54th show this Sunday, the singer says it never gets old.

DETROIT Rapper-rocker Kid Rock - incensed over a column questioning where the musician's "Made in Detroit" line of T-shirts actually are made - lashed out at the writer in an expletive-laced letter on the company's website.