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The Michael Jackson story came back to life this week with a ruling by the Los Angeles County Coroner that the death of the pop star two months ago was homicide.

And so we slipped our hand back into our bejeweled glove and started looking around for new tidbits of news to share with you about the Story of the Century. (Yes, it’s early, but after watching TV these last few months we’re pretty sure the cable networks have called it.)

First, from our old pal William Heisel, a fella who knows a thing or two about medical investigations, comes the clearest explanation we’ve seen yet of what Jackson’s docs did and why their actions leave them extremely vulnerable to all manner of legal repercussions.

In a blog post on USC’s Reporting On Health Web site,  our boy Bill (who after leaving the Register and later the Los Angeles Times now works for a health research outfit in Seattle) pores over the court documents filed in the Jackson case and concludes that Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson’s personal physician, may or may not eventually be found criminal responsible for the singer’s death, but certainly seemed to be acting  “more like a dealer” than a doctor.

For more tidbits from this new wave of Jackson death coverage, read on….

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It’s still not too late to win tickets to that exclusive ‘Hannah Montana’ concert at Verizon Amphitheater in Irvine on Friday, Pedro has learned.

Fans can enter to win tickets in a drawing to be held at all Bristol Farms supermarket locations, including Newport Beach, Mission Viejo and Long Beach.

And right before the concert begins on Friday, Radio Disney will be hosting a live event at the Bristol Farms at 810 Avocado Ave. in Newport Beach, where fans can compete — in a “Hannah Montana” karaoke contest, we’re told — to win tickets to the show that day.

Enter to win tickets at each location through the end of business on Thursday, Oct. 9. The Newport Beach event runs from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

And the concert — which is being filmed for the upcoming “Hannah Montana” movie  — starts at 5 p.m Friday.

Good luck!

Even a month ago at Wimbledon, Gwen Stefani was big as a house, as the ob-gyns like to say behind your back.

And so it seemed logical and true-ish when we heard that In Touch reporting that Stefani had scheduled a C-section at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to deliver Baby No. 2 with rocker husband Gavin Rossdale.

A few hours later came word that she’d delivered Son No. 2, or as birth certificate reads, Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale.

Makes his 2-year-old brother sound positively old-fashioned with the name Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, doesn’t it?

 Speaking of Gwen:

• Remember when No Doubt was just a local band?
• Remember when Gwen turned into a thin-skinned diva?
• Remember when everybody hoped No Doubt would get back together?

Even when if you’re the most popular girl on the planet, as the Miley Cyrus PR agents bill her, you still have to get out there and promote the new product.

And so, Miley appears on ‘Good Morning America’  on Friday, July 18. The GMA appearance is part of their summer concert series, so surely you’ll hear her perform ‘7 Things,’ the first single from her new ‘Breakout’ CD.

The album — her second under her own name — seems intended to push her toward a slightly older audience, while not abandoning the millions of younger kids who fill her bank account thanks to her role as the star of the Disney Channel’s ‘Hannah Montana.’

It’s a bit of tightrope walk, but seems to be working so far: ‘7 Things,’ which has an ‘angry’ Miley singing about the seven thing she hates about some boy who dogged her, is at No. 2 on the most recent Radio Disney Top 30 countdown.