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LOS ANGELES — A Florida woman arrested on suspicion of firing gunshots at Rihanna’s Los Angeles home while 10 people were inside is expected to make her first court appearance on Tuesday afternoon. Prosecutors said they are reviewing a case presented by police and 35-year-old Ivanna Lisette Ortiz is expected to be arraigned later in…

NEW YORK — Mark Ballas is returning to Broadway in “Chicago” and the “Dancing with the Stars” pro will be reuniting with an old friend. Ballas, playing slippery lawyer Billy Flynn starting April 6, will share the stage with his Roxie, Whitney Leavitt, the “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star who was his dancing partner…

NEW YORK — When Gustavo Dudamel first walked into the New York Philharmonic music director’s office, he noticed black-and-white photos that included Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Mahler and Willem Mengelberg. Ready to succeed them as music director on Sept. 1, he added the only color shot in the room: himself with his mentor, José Antonio Abreu….

PARIS — PARIS (AP) — Chanel ‘s Matthieu Blazy is still building. Six months into his tenure at the Parisian stalwart, the designer staged his second ready-to-wear collection at Paris Fashion Week Monday, where brightly colored cranes rose from a holographic floor — a deliberate signal that the construction is ongoing. For Parisians who have…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Riches and paid appearances haven’t followed Jessie Holmes since he won the world’s most famous sled dog race, the Iditarod, last year. He doesn’t mind. A carpenter and a former cast member of National Geographic’s reality show “Life Below Zero,” Holmes has instead been content to return to his austere, hand-built homestead…

Tommy DeCarlo, who sang with the band Boston for nearly 20 years after posting a Myspace tribute to the band’s original singer, has died at 60 Tommy DeCarlo, who became the lead singer of classic rockers Boston for nearly 20 years based on a Myspace tribute to the band’s original singer, has died. DeCarlo’s children,…

NEW YORK — A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize. Philip and William Taubman’s “McNamara at War” is this year’s winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, The New York Historical announced Monday. The Taubmans’ book traces McNamara’s ascent as a…

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Simon & Schuster has named a former Amazon.com executive, Greg Greeley, as its new CEO. The publisher announced Monday that Greeley’s appointment is effectively immediately. The 62-year-old Greeley succeeds Jonathan Karp, who announced last year that he was stepping down to head his own imprint at the company,…

NEW YORK — Family, friends and fans will gather Monday morning in New York to pay tribute to Willie Colón, the Grammy-nominated architect of urban salsa music and social activist who died last month at 75. A public funeral Mass will be held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in midtown Manhattan, following a weekend of private…