Mumford & Sons win Grammy for album of the year
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Posted: 02/11/2013
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LOS ANGELES - At this year's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Mumford & Sons has won Album of the Year with "Babel."
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Record of the Year went to Gotye featuring Kimbra, with "Somebody That I Used to Know." Prince presented that award.
The awards ceremony also featured a number of memorable performances.
Justin Timberlake returned to the stage to perform his newest single, "Suit and Tie."
The group FUN. performed "Carry On" and went on to win a Grammy for Best New Artist and Song of the Year for their hit, "We are Young."
LA fugitive manhunt brings heavier Grammy policing
There was a heavier-than-usual police presence at the Grammy Awards because of a dangerous former Los Angeles police officer believed to have killed three people in a region-wide rampage last week.
Police Cmdr. Andy Smith says the always heavily guarded Grammys saw even more officers at Staples Center on Sunday as the hunt for 33-year-old fugitive Christopher Dorner continued.
The search was focused in mountains 80 miles away, but police said Dorner could be anywhere, and most of the targets he threatened in an online manifesto have ties to the LAPD -- which typically has a visible presence at the Grammys.
Scores of officers were outside Staples, others were stationed on a hotel roof across the street and Grammy participants' credentials were being checked constantly.
Dorner's manifesto mentions many celebrities, but makes no threats to entertainers.
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