AP - Fans are gathering hours early for a public tribute to Michael Jackson at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, the fabled venue that helped make a 9-year-old Jackson a star.

AP - Media coverage of Michael Jackson’s death began receding following an extraordinary worldwide outpouring, with the shock wearing off and the pace of new developments slowing.

AP - The chief of the nation’s second-largest school district is fuming over comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s magazine photo shoot with high school football players.

E! Online - The question of whether Michael Jackson had a valid will at the time of his death just got a little more complicated.

Reuters - A little-known Swedish software firm has snapped up file-sharing website The Pirate Bay with the hope of turning the source of legal controversy into a money-spinner that appeals to both users and content providers.

Reuters - A woman who inherited some Chinese carved jade from her father has scored the first $1 million appraisal from experts on the U.S. television program “Antiques Roadshow,” the producers said on Monday.

AP - At the BET Awards over the weekend, Michael Jackson’s father, Joe Jackson, was back in front of the cameras. Wearing a black fedora and oversized sunglasses, he spoke proudly of his son, paid tribute to “a superstar” and promoted his own new record label.

Reuters - “The News Has No Clothes,” a stage show mixing politics and comedy and featuring comedian Lewis Black and former White House press secretary Dana Perino, might be the next late-night television format.

Reuters - Veteran screenwriter Dan Gordon (”The Hurricane,” “Wyatt Earp”) has signed to write the screenplay for “The King of Sting,” a drama about con man Craig Glazer.

AP - Two weeks before he died, Michael Jackson wrapped up work on an elaborate production dubbed the “Dome Project” that could be the final finished video piece overseen by the King of Pop, The Associated Press has learned.