BROOKE BURKE: I Have Thyroid Cancer

Dancing With the Stars co-host Brooke Burke reveals in an online video that she's been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

Brooke says she's scheduled to have to have thyroid surgery and insists that she's "going to make a positive out of this negative thing." 

NASHVILLE: Rayna's Mansion on the Market

The Music City mansion that Rayna Jaymes calls home on the hit series Nashville is up for grabs -- for $19.5 million. The 20,000-square-foot spread sits on six acres of land in the upscale Belle Meade neighborhood on the west side of the city.

Scenes have been shot in the kitchen, master bedroom, bathroom and pool area, and the mansion’s facade is often used to set up scenes inside the home.

Jackson Browne has played at the mansion, and former president George W. Bush once held a fundraiser there. During the 2010 flood, the home’s wine cellar was submerged in five feet of water, but the homeowners refurbished the area and salvaged their stock of 4000 bottles of wine.

Source: WKRN

LENNY KRAVITZ: Headlines New Miami Festival

Lenny Kravitz will headline the main stage on the closing day of the inaugural UR1 Music and Art Festival in Miami on December 8th and 9th. Other artists lined up for the two-day gathering in Bayfront Park include Fun, Keane, The Offspring, Jane's Addiction, Lou Reed, Slash and Kanye West.

WALLFLOWERS: Live All Over

Wallflowers frontman Jakob Dylan says that unlike in the past, they wrote the songs on their new album, Glad All Over, specifically to be played live. He tells M: Music and Musicians magazine that he'd "never invested too much" in writing songs that would work in concert. "The last two records stand well as records, [but] they didn't exactly offer a lot of variety in what I was able to do in the shows." This time, he says, "we had our eye on playing live."

The band took to its Facebook page Thursday to reiterate that this Sunday's show at the Paramount Theater in Huntington, New York, on storm-ravaged Long Island, is still on.

The second single from Glad All Over, "Love Is a Country," hits the airwaves on November 19th.

ROD STEWART: Blondes Have More Tears Too

Rod Stewart was caught wiping away tears of joy the other night in England after his beloved Celtic soccer club scored a two-to-one Champions League win against Barcelona, a victory that is being described as one of the greatest in the team's 125 years.

BARACK OBAMA: Sheds More Tears

The day after the election, President Barack Obama visited the Chicago headquarters of his re-election campaign. The President praised the staff’s efforts and became choked with emotion while trying express his gratitude.

The unscripted moment earned loud applause from the staff, and shouts of encouragement.

The President attempted to praise the young staffers, who he claimed were more focused than he was at their age. They’d already accomplished much more than he had when he first arrived in Chicago at age 25. Obama told the staff that he was confident that they’d become high achievers, whether working in the private sector, non-profit, or as a public servant. His lip started to quiver while saying (quote) “You're just going to do great things! And that's why, even before last night's results, I felt that the work that I had done in running for office had come full circle.. Because what you guys have done means the work that I'm doing is important, and I'm really proud of all of you."

WEIRD NEWS: Rob Thy Neighbor

A Florida woman was busted on charges of stealing thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from her neighbors, but has been allowed to stay out of jail – while she tries to remember where she put the stuff!

Anita Louise McGillicuddy's neighbors came to her door to voice suspicions that she was behind a series of small thefts that added up to more than four thousand dollars in losses, which she readily admitted. She even returned some of the items that she was accused of swiping, but insisted she had no idea where most of it was because she was totally wasted when she committed the crimes – most of which she doesn't even recall.

She says she was drinking heavily and recalls breaking into the home, but not leaving with armfuls of stuff. Her roommate promised to pitch in on the hunt for the stolen goods. (Florida Sun-Sentinel)

WEIRD NEWS: Singin' the Jailhouse Blues

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can send you to prison – when you sing them in the middle of the street in an effort to avoid getting tossed behind bars.

A Florida man made that discovery earlier this week when he stationed himself in the middle of the street for an obscenity-laced musical rant against police and the very idea of jail. Kirk John Tinney was wandering around on a neighborhood street, stumbling and approaching cars while singing the hip-hop classic '[Bleep] the Police]' as well as a more recent rap hit about not being sent back to jail.

Tinney also had music blaring at top volume inside his apartment, which led to a noise complaint. When he refused to stop singing about not going back to jail, cops made the decision for him, hauling him in on charges of disorderly intoxication and disturbing the peace. (WPTV)

WEIRD NEWS: The Pen Is Mightier

An attorney in Dallas who was being evicted from his office came up with a response and grabbed a writing implement – not to draw up legal papers, but to draw giant images of male genitals all over the walls.

Tom Correa was disbarred in Texas after the incident, which occurred shortly after he was given the boot from his office on Halloween. When the landlord's representative showed up the next day to check out the property, he found counters and light fixtures damaged by a sledgehammer and the graphic graffiti across all the walls.

Correa had also defecated in several places on the floor. He's being held on $500,000 bond. (Dallas Morning News)

WEIRD NEWS: Sandy Raises the Bar

Hurricane Sandy gave the term "sand bar" a whole new meaning for some residents of Brooklyn – by yanking a beachside tavern off its moorings in one neighborhood and floating it two miles downstream, completely unharmed.

The bar, which was located on federal parkland at a marina, was lifted from its moorings at the height of the storm and propelled down a swollen creek until it washed up on a dead end street in a residential neighborhood – with its chairs and tables undamaged, and dozens of bottles of liquor intact.

Residents of the Gerritsen Beach neighborhood, who were in need of a drink by the time the the storm moved on, treated themselves to the contents. One man said, "We had Jameson's, Skyy Vodka and a bunch of beer. We packed 40 people in there. That's a lot of body heat to stay warm." (New York Post)

NOR'EASTER: 150K New Power Outages in NJ

The nor'easter that blew threw New Jersey and the rest of the Northeast last night left 150,000 more customers in the dark. That brings the total of power outages in the state up to 390,000 following superstorm Sandy. Although damage was minimal on the reeling Jersey Shore, most of the outages were concentrated in areas hard-hit by Sandy.

Meanwhile, the new storm turned out to be a surprising snowmaker. Freehold, New Jersey received more than a foot of the white stuff, while other towns picked up between two and six inches.

Source: Asbury Park Press

PUBLIC URINATION: Mother Fined $2,500 After Toddler Pees in Public (audio)

The mother of a three-year-old boy received a ticket for $2,500 after a cop caught her son relieving himself on his front lawn.

It happened in Piedmont, Oklahoma (yes, that's pronounced "Peed-mont"). Mom Ashley Warden said that her son is being potty trained and "goes when he wants to go." Grandmother Jennifer Warden joked that for "$2,500 we all should be allowed to go all over our front lawn."

Police and even the city's mayor realized it was all a mistake and said that the ticket will be thrown out.

Source: AP

SKYDIVING IN LINGERIE: Women Face Their Fears

What's more liberating than skydiving? How about skydiving in your underwear? That's what Jennifer Hoffman and Marisa Gallegos, the founders of Esme & Eve Photography, plan to do on November 17th.

The pair, along with five other women, will make that jump from a plane near Lake Elsinore, California, wearing nothing but parachutes and their undies.

It's all part of a promotion for their photography company's campaign "Be Bold. Take the Leap" in which they are urging women "to face their fears, take a risk and push against whatever is holding them back from carrying out their dreams."

Source: ABC News