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TMZ has learned Gary Coleman is currently hospitalized in Utah -- and we're told he's in critical condition.

Gary Coleman has been hospitalized in Utah and is, per one report, in "critical condition." The former Diff'rent Strokes star, who lives in the state, was transported from his home to a surgical ICU yesterday afternoon, E! News has confirmed. But so far the details are sketchy. "We're just getting bits and pieces right now, so there's really nothing to report," Coleman's manager told E! News. "If there's anything to announce, we'll let you know." While the circumstances surrounding his hospitalization remain unclear, Coleman's brother-in-law told TMZ that the 42-year-old actor was in critical condition after sustaining a head injury...

Senator Barack Obama will promise change -- and spells out specifics such as tax cuts for the middle class -- as he accepts the Democratic presidential nomination tonight. Obama also warns that Republican John McCain would mean four more years of President Bush's flawed policies, declaring “America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.”. Here are excerpts of the speech, titled "The American Promise," just released by Obama's campaign: “Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story – of the brief union between a young man from Kenya...

Her appointment at the Civil Right's Commision expires next month There's something about Mary ...

<p>LOS ANGELES - Films and television shows featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and other celebrity candidates in California's gubernatorial recall election will likely not be broadcast in the state for the next few months so that stations can avoid having to give rival candidates equal time.</p>

OBITUARIES Nedra Volz, 94; TV Actress Played Many 'Old Lady' RolesBy Myrna Oliver, Times Staff WriterNedra Volz, a character actress remembered for her early 1980s roles as housekeeper Adelaide Brubaker on the popular television comedy "Diff'rent Strokes" and postmistress Miz Emma Tisdale on "The Dukes of Hazzard," has died. She was 94.Volz, who played her customary "old lady" role in her final film, "The Great White Hype," which was released in 1996, died Jan. 20 in Mesa, Ariz., of complications of Alzheimer's disease.[...]