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Published: May 16, 2009
■ Prosecutors in Colorado Springs, Colo., have dropped charges against a man accused of shooting at bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman and another man. An assistant district attorney for El Paso County, Dan Zook, said that an attempted-murder charge was dropped because of conflicting witness statements and because the evidence was weak. Chapman and bail bondsman Bobby Brown told Colorado Springs police that they were fired on while chasing Hoang Nguyen, 35, last month after Nguyen missed a court date on a domestic-violence charge. The pursuit was being videotaped for A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter reality-TV show.
■ Rapper T.I. must come to Little Rock, Ark., by Tuesday to serve a prison sentence on federal weapons charges. T.I., whose real name is Clifford J. Harris Jr., will be serving his sentence of one year and a day at the Forrest City low-security federal prison. Paperwork filed in his federal court case shows that he has until noon Tuesday to report for his sentence. Harris pleaded guilty to the charges after he tried to buy a stash of machine guns and silencers to protect himself after his best friend was killed. He will also pay a $100,000 fine.
■ The little girls who made the New Kids on the Block a boy-band sensation in the late 1980s and early 1990s are all grown up, and now they have disposable income. So what better way to show their love for Jordan, Jonathan, Joey, Donnie and Danny than spending three days with them on a Caribbean cruise? About 2,100 women, most in their 20s and 30s, paid more than $1,000 each for a sold-out, three-day Carnival Cruise Lines trip that left Miami for the Bahamas yesterday. The band will perform twice during the trip, allowing half the passengers to come one night and the other half the next. Other activities include meet-and-greets and photo-ops.
■ Actor Vinnie Jones, a former British soccer player, was acquitted of assault Thursday for his role in a bar fight in downtown Sioux Falls, S.D. Jones, 44, was charged with misdemeanor simple assault for a Dec. 4 fight at Wiley's Tavern. Surveillance video showed a bloodied Jones punching Juan Trevino-Barrera, 24, in a hallway minutes after Barrera's friends hit Jones with a beer glass and beer bottle, causing deep cuts to Jones' nose and forehead. Jones' movie credits include Snatch; Gone in Sixty Seconds; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; and X-Men: The Last Stand. Barrera testified that the attack was unprovoked, but the defense argued that it was self defense. Jones said he was in South Dakota as part of a pheasant-hunting party.
■ It's another milestone for NBC's Today show: the 700th week in a row as TV's most-popular morning show. Nielsen Media Research statistics show that last week continued an unbeaten streak that began in December 1995. Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric were the co-hosts then. Now it's Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira.
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