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'Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures' Where: Nickelodeon When: 8 and 8:30 p.m. Friday Rating: TV-G (suitable for all ages)

Michael Jackson's makeup artist testified Friday that although the singer once asked her if she had painkillers, she never broached the subject of his addiction with him. Karen Faye said that during Jackson's 2005 molestation trial in Santa Maria she would spend a lot of time with the performer, arriving at 3 a.m. to help him get ready, and felt it was not appropriate to confront him about his misuse of prescription drugs.   “I was a place of safety for him, and peace,” Faye said.

Two sheriff's deputies were credited Wednesday with saving the life of an 8-month-old boy, who was in critical condition after falling into a half-filled bucket of water. The youngster, Eddie Zenteno, was taken to Doctors Hospital, then transferred to the pediatric intensive care ward at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a nursing supervisor said. Sheriff's spokesman Pat Hauser said Deputies Helen Pena and Charles Dery went to 1219 S. Amalia Ave. shortly after 9 a.m.

What's on your "bucket list"? Westchester resident Elliot Kharkats wants to know. Inspired by similar projects that have sprung up around the world, the 33-year-old Russian-born Internet marketer installed a large chalkboard in the 8700 block of La Tijera Boulevard. "Before I die I want to .... " are the words stenciled at the top of the chalkboard attached to a large gate on his backyard fence. Kharkats has provided chalk to encourage passersby. PHOTOS: Chalkboard bucket list "This board is for other people, not for me. This is an interactive art piece for other people," he said.

A Thai insurance salesman killed his wife and kept her chopped-up remains in a bucket for more than two years, police said. Preecha Chatchaisakul, 39, confessed to murdering his wife in 1988, chopping up her body and putting the pieces in plastic bags in a bucket, they said. Preecha left his apartment three months ago and police were called in when a neighbor complained of the smell. Preecha feigned madness when arrested, the police said.

A year-old girl nearly drowned in a bucket of dog food and water but was in satisfactory condition in a hospital Sunday, authorities said. Lillian Lindsey found her daughter, Kayla, half submerged in the large bucket Saturday, police said.

Wonderful article on apricots I caught by accident while in Irvine on business ("The Quest for 'Cots," June 7). I grew up in the Sacramento Valley on a ranch, picked and cut 'cots. You're right about the flavorless fruit that is around today. We bought two lugs last year just off I-5 at Hahn Road (north of the I-505/I-5 junction), variety unknown. Looked great, even smelled pretty good. But not worth the calories. In the old days (1950s), we had Blenheims and Royals, and I agree on the flavor, even better with a little orchard dirt.

A welder was killed at a construction site on Mission Gorge Road Thursday when a 2 1/2-ton earth-moving bucket fell on him, the county coroner's office said. Ronald Gaston Ruby, 47, of Lemon Grove was welding the 6-foot-high bucket with a U-shaped bottom when--"for unknown reasons"--it tipped over onto him, apparently killing him instantly, Deputy Coroner David Lodge said. Ruby was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials of V.R. Dennis Construction Co.

One man was killed and another injured Friday night when a 30,000-pound crane they were operating on a sound stage at Universal Studios fell through a temporary plywood floor, authorities said. The accident occurred while the men, who were riding in a bucket suspended from the crane, were dismantling a set for the feature film "Batteries Not Included," Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. David Carolan said.

  LONDON -- Remember Paul the Octopus, the intuitive invertebrate who correctly predicted the winners in the 2010 World Cup, even choosing Spain over the Netherlands in the final by eating a mussel in a box with a Spanish flag on it? Well, a British newspaper is trying to follow in Paul's suction-cupped steps, using Larry the Donkey for some Olympics predictions. The London Daily Telegraph asks the donkey a question, then a two children each hold out a bucket of food marked with a possible answer.

KFC's new Li'l Bucket Kids Meals are launching at the chicken chain nationwide on the same day that consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest said nearly all kids meals “flunk nutrition.” KFC's new packaging involves a smaller, colorful bucket covered with interactive games. Kids can choose from among several varieties of chicken, sides and drinks. Each container comes with a pouch of GoGo squeeZ applesauce, which looks a little bit like those plastic “flask on the fly” Pocket Shot booze bags that sparked controversy a few years back.

Thank you, Lonely Planet, for one of the best musical compilations around: the Top 40 Rock 'n' Roll Travel Sites . Why should any dedicated rock fan go to St. Louis, Zanzibar or the Budokan judo hall in Tokyo? The guidebook company's Robert Reid provides compelling reasons to see all three, but more on that later. The list offers far more than the usual suspects and includes a level of detail that might make rock fans consider taking off on their own round-the-world tour. Reid's travel venues go way back, with the honorable Chuck Berry as the No. 1 chart topper and the reason to go to St. Louis.

CARLSBAD, Calif. - Dreamers have long looked to the Pacific Ocean as the ultimate answer to California's water needs: an inexhaustible, drought-proof reservoir in the state's backyard. In the last decade, proposals for about 20 desalting plants have been discussed up and down the coast. But even with construction about to begin on the nation's largest seawater desalination facility, 35 miles north of San Diego, experts say it is doubtful that dream will ever be fully realized. "While this Poseidon adventure may work out, I don't look for a lot of that," said Henry Vaux Jr., a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of resource economics who contributed to a 2008 National Research Council report on desalination.

This website is a handy tool you can use to build your bucket list from travel photos shared by your Facebook friends, as well as a visual portal into your friends' vacations. Name: Traverie.com What it does: Imports travel photos posted by your Facebook friends and organizes them by city and country. You can keep track of where they have been and where you hope to go. What's hot: The "Dream" mode is the most inspirational. Traverie rolls out a location across your screen with a collage of travel photos taken by your Facebook friends.

Ice hotels are quirky subfreezing structures. They feature elaborate ice sculptures, ice beds and usually an ice bar. The first one was built in 1991, about 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle in a village in Sweden's Lapland, and it has been re-created every year since. But you don't have to go that far for a little cold comfort. The Ice Hotel , or Hotel de Glace, in Canada's Quebec City, about 10 minutes from downtown, has 32 rooms and suites (some with fireplaces, which seems like cheating)

As a longtime football analyst on Fox, Terry Bradshaw has said many things that make no sense. But a comment he made Sunday while describing a touchdown run by the Miami Dolphins' Reggie Bush has many people both scratching their heads and fuming in anger. Bradshaw was talking over a clip of a back-and-forth run by the African American running back when he called out to cohort Jimmie Johnson, "Look at this, Jimmie! Like he was chasing that bucket of chicken that wind was blowing the other day. " Not only was the statement nonsensical, but it also seemed to employ a negative racial stereotype.

If the remains of a body cremated at a Newport Beach mortuary did not fit into an urn, the excess ashes at one time were thrown into a bucket with the overflow from many other bodies before burial, a retired mortuary worker testified Monday in the trial of a widow's lawsuit against the park. Ruth Wiese, 80, claims in her suit that employees of Pacific View Memorial Park & Mortuary in Corona del Mar mishandled the remains of her husband after his death on April 7, 1984.

As a longtime football analyst on Fox, Terry Bradshaw has said many things that make no sense. But a comment he made Sunday while describing a touchdown run by the Miami Dolphins' Reggie Bush has many people both scratching their heads and fuming in anger. Bradshaw was talking over a clip of a back-and-forth run by the African American running back when he called out to cohort Jimmie Johnson, "Look at this, Jimmie! Like he was chasing that bucket of chicken that wind was blowing the other day. " Not only was the statement nonsensical, but it also seemed to employ a negative racial stereotype.

BAY SHORE, N.Y. -- The "W" in the 10-foot-tall sign on the building has burned out, but inside the cavernous Lowe's hardware store here, a massive generator keeps the aisles lit brighter than daylight. The parking lot is full as customers from the hard-hit shores of Long Island to the north and south come to buy tools and materials to patch roofs, drain waterlogged basements and find ways to banish the dark. The store has sold its full inventory of some 700 generators in the last two days and managers are hoping another shipment will come in soon.

The man believed to be a serial bank robber known as the Bucket List Bandit -- because he told tellers he had only months to live -- was arrested this week in Oklahoma. Michael Eugene Brewster, 54, of Pensacola, Fla., was pulled over Thursday on a traffic stop in the small town of Roland near the Oklahoma-Arkansas border; he's suspected of robbing a bank in Erie, Pa., three days earlier.  A tipster helped agents identify Brewster before the stop, Special Agent Rick Rains of the FBI's Oklahoma City office told the Los Angeles Times.