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May 9, 2008CLEARWATER, Fla. - A judge in Florida says the 17-year-old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan must serve eight months in jail for reckless driving.
Nick Bollea was led off to begin his sentence immediately after Friday's ruling. When he's released, he will be on five years' probation and lose his driving privileges for three years.
LAS VEGAS - Toni Braxton's return to the stage on the Las Vegas strip has been pushed back for at least another month.
A spokeswoman for Harrah's Entertainment says the target date to resume "Toni Braxton: Revealed" at the Flamingo Las Vegas hotel is now June 6.
YONKERS, New York - Singer Mary J. Blige is establishing a foundation to help women develop careers and gain self-confidence.
Blige, whose current album is "Growing Pains," and Steve Stoute, who founded a youth-oriented brand consulting firm, say they're setting up the Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now.
LOS ANGELES - She's not just fast. She's very fast.
Meet Daphne, the speedy new character on NBC's "Heroes," who plans to give the show's superhumans - especially time traveller Hiro and his sidekick, Ando - a run for their money when she debuts on the popular NBC series' upcoming third season, which went back into production last week.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says California must increase tax incentives to movie and television studios as a way to keep them from moving their productions out of state.
He says incentives being offered by other states are luring studios away and costing California tens of thousands of jobs.
ATLANTA - Even though Raven-Symone can now add movie producer to her long list of accomplishments, some people still perceive her as just a little girl.
But the former "That's So Raven" star is trying to show she's graduated from the child phenom role and has more substance to her than the animated character that's still endlessly shown, via reruns, on the television screen.
CHICAGO - Jury selection began Friday in the child pornography trial of Grammy-winning singer R. Kelly, who is accused of having sex with a girl as young as 13 on videotape.
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Vincent Gaughan outlined the 14-count indictment against the R&B superstar to potential jurors who packed into the courtroom. Gaughan refused to allow reporters to view the jury selection. A court official said there were not enough seats.
GENEVA - An icy, pear-shaped 38-carat diamond that belonged to the only daughter of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis went on display in Geneva on Friday.
The stone Christina Onassis wore on a pendant necklace, which is to be auctioned June 11 in London, has been valued at between $3.5 million and $4.3 million.
LOS ANGELES - Near as Lee Pace can tell, the best way to scare audiences away is to tell them how good something is.
"I think people are really cautious about important movies," said Pace, who stars in "The Fall," opening Friday. "If you're told, 'There's an important movie coming out,' people would rather chew glass than go see it."
BERLIN - Berlin's Holocaust memorial played host to an open-air concert on Friday, with musicians spread out across the field of concrete slabs and performing a modern experimental piece.
The Kammersymphonie Berlin twice performed composer Harald Weiss' sombre 17-minute piece "Vor dem Verstummen" ("Before Silence Falls") to mark the third anniversary of the monument's opening to the public.
PHOENIX - Authorities say DMX has been arrested on drug and animal-cruelty charges in Phoenix following an overnight raid on the rapper's house.
The Maricopa County sheriff's office says the 37-year-old, whose real name is Earl Simmons, at first tried to barricade himself in his bedroom. He came out as a SWAT team entered during the early-morning raid Friday.
NEW YORK - Rapper Foxy Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbour with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served.
The two women got into a fight July 31, 2007, over Brown blasting her car stereo outside their Brooklyn apartment building.
TORONTO - Here are the top 10 television programs in Canada, with viewer numbers, for the week of April 28-May 4:
LOS ANGELES - A judge has reinstated a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G., reversing an earlier decision to dismiss the case.
U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper threw out the lawsuit March 21 after determining the family missed a state deadline for bringing a claim against the city and two former police officers. The lawsuit was originally filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, then moved to federal court.
ROME - Italy has reached a verbal agreement with a U.S. museum in Cleveland for the return of artifacts Rome says have been looted or smuggled out of the country, a government lawyer said Friday.
Talks between Italy and the Cleveland Museum of Art are near their final stage, said lawyer Maurizio Fiorilli, who has helped negotiate the return of Italian antiquities from several other U.S. museums.
LOS ANGELES - Nothing ever seems to change in the stormy love-hate relationship between Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood.
The characters created by Harrison Ford and Karen Allen in 1981's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" are back at it with "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," due out May 22.
LOS ANGELES - Another Canadian has become a big name at the Playboy Mansion.
Jayde Nicole is Playboy's 2008 Playmate of the Year. The 22-year-old brunette bombshell is featured in a ten-page nude pictorial in Playboy's June issue that comes out this week.
TORONTO - Renowned Canadian playwright Judith Thompson unveils what she calls one of the most "creatively gratifying" stage productions of her 30-year career this weekend.
But she didn't write it, nor did she come up with the initial concept. It was soap maker Dove that first hatched the idea for "Body & Soul," which sees 13 Canadian women - aged 45 to 78 - going onstage to tell their own stories of racism, abuse, cancer, motherhood, immigration and divorce, among other things.
