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Country singer Chris Cagle, 39, was cited for misdemeanor assault after allegedly punching a fan's boyfriend in the face. The singer had finished performing a benefit show at a Tucson, Ariz., nightclub early Thursday when he declined to sign an autograph for the woman, police spokesman Sgt. Mark Robinson said. The woman became belligerent and, and "called him every name in the book," Robinson said Friday. When the bouncers were escorting the woman and her beau out of the club, another incident occurred, which Robinson declined to describe. At that point, the boyfriend was bopped, Robinson said.
Lott is itchin' to write
Departing Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., has decided to write a congressional version of "Profiles in Courage," the 1950s book that won then-Sen. John Kennedy, D-Mass., a Pulitzer Prize. Instead of the Kennedyesque profiles of courageous Americans, Lott is writing 20 chapters on lawmakers who took courageous stands.
Update
Case is flushed
A Scranton, Pa., woman who was cited for loudly cursing at her overflowing toilet — and then at a neighbor who told her to quiet down — has been acquitted on First Amendment grounds. District Judge Terrence Gallagher dismissed the disorderly conduct charge against Dawn Herb, 33, ruling Thursday that she was within her rights when she let loose a string of profanities Oct. 11. Herb was cited after Patrick Gilman, a police officer who lives near Herb, called authorities to complain.
That'll cost you
Parking boo-boo
At least 26 Norwegian motorists were charged between $37,000 and $148,000 when they used their bank debit cards to pay for street parking in the central Norwegian city of Trondheim last week. Because of a computer glitch, the machine dispensing parking permits multiplied the amount of time they bought by 10,000, and automatically deducted it from their bank accounts, the city-owned parking company said Friday.
Art notes
Hirst donates 4 works
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British artist Damien Hirst donated four of his works to the Tate collection, including a replica of his prize-winning installation of bisected cows in formaldehyde, the museum said Friday. A Hirst piece set a record in June for the highest price paid at auction for a work by a living artist, selling for $19.1 million.
Passages
Floyd Red Crow Westerman, 71, an American Indian activist, actor and folk singer who appeared in "Dances With Wolves" and performed with Willie Nelson and other musicians, died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from leukemia.
Laura Archera Huxley, 96, a lay therapist and author who was the widow of "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, died Thursday at her Hollywood Hills, Calif., home of cancer.
Today in History
1890: Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River, S.D., during a confrontation with Indian police.
1944: A single-engine plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller, who was a major in the Army Air Forces, disappeared over the English Channel while en route to Paris.
1961: Ex-Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli court.
Today's Birthdays
Actor-comedian Tim Conway, 74. Actor Don Johnson, 58. Director Julie Taymor, 55. Director Reginald Hudlin, 46. Actress Helen Slater, 44. Actor Adam Brody, 28. Actor George O. Gore II, 26
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