LOS ANGELES Eddie Cibrian is suing Life & Style Weekly for defamation over a recent story claiming he was cheating on girlfriend LeAnn Rimes.

LOS ANGELES Court records show James Van Der Beek has filed for divorce from his wife of nearly six years.

SAN FRANCISCO The Miss California USA pageant director who became embroiled in a war of words with former title holder Carrie Prejean has donated 30-seconds of free ad time to the state's largest gay rights group.

CHICAGO For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.

LOS ANGELES ABC says the final season of "Lost" will begin in February with a night devoted to the drama.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio The woman who bore twin girls for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick said Thursday that she was living in a West Virginia motel around the time a police chief is accused of breaking into her eastern Ohio home.

NEW YORK You might say our national nightmare is over. Or is it just a TV series?

WASHINGTON Museum visitors in Washington will get the chance to step into "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert's old NBC office, which has been reassembled at the Newseum.

NEW YORK Chaz Bono says beginning the sex-change process to turn him from a woman to a man is "the best decision I've ever made."

LOS ANGELES Ladies' man Ricardo Bomba is bringing his charms to "The Simpsons," and it's all the doing of a hospital operations manager with a vivid imagination.

NEW YORK Fox News Channel correspondent Major Garrett called himself a "conscientious objector" in his network's fight with the White House after a brief interview with President Barack Obama Wednesday during which the topic never came up.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. Authorities have arrested a fugitive wanted in three San Francisco Bay area slayings after his case was featured on "America's Most Wanted."

LOS ANGELES NBC has scheduled next year's Emmy Awards for August, instead of September when they're usually aired.

LOS ANGELES Nicole Richie has been admitted to a Los Angeles hospital and is being treated for pneumonia. Her representative says she's doing well.

NEW YORK Country music helped ABC to its best ratings week in more than a year.

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Co. for Nov. 9-15. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.

PHOENIX NBC newsman Brian Williams said Wednesday he's not sure if Walter Cronkite would have succeeded in the age of cable news, blogs and Twitter.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. The California Energy Commission on Wednesday approved the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions.

PHOENIX NBC newsman Brian Williams received the first Walter Cronkite Award for his work in journalism Wednesday since the veteran anchorman's death this summer.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. In a widely watched ruling that could be followed by other states, California passed first-in-the-nation energy efficiency standards for new television sets.