• Essence Fest celebrates black music, culture
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Queen Latifah dropped by the Essence Music Festival on Friday to help celebrate its 15th year of uplifting and empowering the African-American community through issues-filled seminars by day and high-powered musical performances by night.
• Powerful sedative found in Michael Jackson's home
  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home, a law enforcement official said Friday as the city planned for a massive crowd at the singer's memorial service.
• Neverland closes until after LA Jackson memorial
  LOS OLIVOS, Calif. (AP) -- Like an old Western boomtown, the makeshift village that sprang up around the gates of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch was vanishing Friday, with visitors and vendors packing up tents, tarps, posters and CDs.
• LA police plan for huge crowd at Jackson memorial
  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles city officials are preparing for massive crowds downtown during Tuesday's public memorial for Michael Jackson at Staples Center, even though only 17,500 tickets are being offered to the public.
• Madonna to pay tribute to Jackson in concert
  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Madonna is paying tribute to Michael Jackson in the same arena where he was to stage his great comeback.
• ABBA's Andersson shoots down London reunion talk
  LONDON (AP) -- Forget those reports that Swedish supergroup ABBA will be reuniting to cover Michael Jackson's sold-out concert dates.
• Obama says he grew up listening to Michael Jackson
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The King of Pop had a fan in the White House.
• Tributes to Jackson spring up in unlikely locales
  PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Michael Jackson permeated popular culture so thoroughly that people and towns nationwide with no connection to him are holding services in his honor.
• Los Angeles police under scrutiny in Jackson death
  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The investigation of Michael Jackson's death is widening as questions intensify about the drugs he took, the doctors who provided them and the actions of police.
• Geller, ex-bodyguard tell of Jackson drug abuse
  LONDON (AP) -- Two of Michael Jackson's former confidantes, medium Uri Geller and ex-bodyguard Matt Fiddes, say they tried in vain to keep the pop superstar from abusing painkillers and other prescription drugs suspected of leading to his death -- but others in the singer's circle kept the supplies flowing.

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