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Lawsuit over filming of Beyonce video settled

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawsuit filed by a Los Angeles man upset with the disruption from a Beyonce Knowles music video shoot has been dismissed and settled. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge dismissed Philip Markowitz’s suit against the Grammy-winning singer on Friday. Markowitz’s lawsuit alleged the shoot for “Why Don’t You Love Me” had “shattered” his privacy and kept him from having access to his home in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood



Hong Kong model arrested after Nevada desert event

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Hong Kong fashion model was busted on felony drug charges at the Burning Man counterculture festival in Nevada and crashed her rented motor home into Reno’s landmark arch the next day, authorities said Wednesday.



Highway deaths fall to lowest level since 1950

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people dying on the nation’s roads has fallen to its lowest level in six decades, helped by a combination of seat belts, safer cars and tougher enforcement of drunken driving laws. The Transportation Department said late Wednesday that traffic deaths fell 9.7 percent in 2009 to 33,808, the lowest number since 1950. In 2008, an estimated 37,423 people died on the highways



Va. philanthropist, billionaire John Kluge dies

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Pratt to Montag: Sorry for my outrageous behavior

NEW YORK (AP) — Former “The Hills” star Spencer Pratt is apologizing to his estranged wife, Heidi Montag, for acting out in their breakup. The two starred on the MTV reality soap, which ended in July.



Appeals court lets government halt torture lawsuit

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program that flew terrorism suspects to secret prisons.