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It's National Cheesecake Day!

Ellen DeGeneres is leaving American Idol. In a statement Thursday, Ellen said, "A couple months ago, I let Fox and the American Idol producers know that this didn't feel like the right fit for me. I told them I wouldn't leave them in a bind and that I would hold off on doing anything until they were able to figure out where they wanted to take the panel next."

A Facebook page called "I'm lost. Help me find my family" has been set up in an attempt to reunite a tattered stuffed animal with his owner. UK cafe owner Liz Everett started the page after the lost bear was accidentally left in her Suffolk cafe. There's also a Twitter page.

Fire officials in Ohio (Middletown) city said a man sparring with a punching bag accidentally caused a natural gas leak when he knocked the meter off his wall. Energy crews were able to shut the gas off about an hour after the leak began.

In theaters this weekend: Dinner for Schmucks (PG-13); Cats & Dogs: Revengs of Kitty Galore (PG); Charlie St. Cloud (PG-13)

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Chelsea Clinton July 31 wedding to Marc Mezvinsky will reportedly run around $2 million.

Long Island, New York, authorities are looking for a male suspect who walked into a bank Thursday dressed as Darth Vader and held up a teller at gunpoint. He was wearing a Darth Vader mask, blue cape and camouflage pants.

If you get an email from BP CEO Tony Hayward saying you can get $500,000 in grant funding -- in exchange for emailing back some personal info -- click 'delete'. It's a phishing scam.

Justin Bieber will guest-star on the season premiere of CSI September 23. Bieber will play a 16-year-old singing sensation. Rehearsals should be easy.

In theaters this weekend: Salt (PG-13) and Ramona and Beezus (G)

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Today is National Fried Chicken Day.

Over 200,000 people have been tricked into clicking on a malicious link that is spreading across Facebook. The link is posted on user walls by a rogue program.

James Cameron's Titanic's coming to theaters in 3-D format in 2012...yes, we need tragedy in 3-D...what's next Schindler's List???

A new study shows it takes longer to read books on an e-book reader versus a printed book. The study found that reading speeds declined by 6.2% on the iPad and 10.7% on the Kindle compared to print...maybe its just the people who read on those devices are below average readers??

An Austrian jeweler has sold a gold and jewel-encrusted vuvuzela to a Russian businessman for over $21,000. The plastic vuvuzela horn is decorated with expensive white gold and diamonds.

On DVD today: Brooklyn's Finest and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo .

In Russia a man is teaching his dog how to scuba dive...maybe he can figure out how to bury all this oil too!! Bury the crude, boy! Bury the crude!