LOS ANGELES Officials investigating the death of Whitney Houston are trying to determine whether she drowned in a bathtub shortly before she was set to attend a pre-Grammy Awards gala.

LOS ANGELES The voice floats confidently but quietly in the first few lines of Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You," the song for which the superstar vocalist, who died Saturday of unknown causes at the Beverly Hilton Hotel,will always be remembered.

EAST ORANGE, N.J. Outside the Whitney E. Houston Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, the flag flew at half-staff in the icy wind as Principal Henry W. Hamilton remembered the gangly 15-year-old who lived up the road, and who excitedly showed off her modeling portfolio to him one afternoon in 1978.

Days before her death in a Los Angeles hotel, Whitney Houston behaved erratically during an appearance at a rehearsal for a Grammy awards party.

WASHINGTON Pop singer and actress Whitney Houston has died at age 48 of unknown causes, on the eve of the Grammy Awards.

LOS ANGELES Guests arriving for a pre-Grammy party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday night were abuzz with the news of the death of Whitney Houston, who died earlier in her room at the hotel.

LOS ANGELES The death of Whitney Houston at the age of 48 is a deep loss for the music world. But it also has reverberations in another artistic realm - the movies.

LOS ANGELES Singer Whitney Houston, who reigned as one of the world's top pop stars in the 1980s and '90s but suffered from recurring bouts with drugs and alcohol, was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel room Saturday.

Let's first remember the good times.

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court has nine justices, but if the constitutional fight over same-sex marriage reaches them this year, the decision will probably come down to just one: a California Republican and Reagan-era conservative who has nonetheless written the court's two leading gay rights opinions.