LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5  -- The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church says members of the newly formed conservative body "are no longer Episcopalians."

In her first public comments since a coalition of 700 parishes announced formation of a new North American church in a dispute over gays, the Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori predicted that the exodus had largely run its course.

"They are no longer Episcopalians," she told the Los Angeles Times. "They have made that very clear in their departures."

Leaders of the new Anglican Church in North America split after taking issue with what they view as the Episcopal Church's liberal policies on the role of gays in the church.

Los Angeles  - Rock guitarist Joe Satriani has sued British supergroup Coldplay, claiming that their hit single Viva la Vida was largely copied from his instrumental track If I Could Fly.

Los Angeles - German juggernaut Dirk Nowitzki dominated through three quarters, before JJ Barea took over in the fourth.

Los Angeles  - Rodney Rogers, who starred in college and played in the NBA for 12 seasons, is paralyzed from the shoulders down as a result of an all-terrain vehicle accident, the News & Observer of Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, reported Thursday.

Dave Odom, who coached Rogers for four years at Wake Forest University, told the newspaper that his former All-America forward is paralyzed from the shoulders down.

"Say a prayer for Rodney and his family," Odom told the newspaper.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 - U. S.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 - Hollywood actor Jack Black plays Jesus Christ in the new online video "Prop. 8 -- The Musical."

Conceived and written by Marc Shaiman, and directed and staged by Adam Shankman, the video addresses the recent passage of California's Proposition 8 referendum, which overturns a state Supreme Court ruling that laws against same-sex marriage violated the state constitution.