AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Ashanti was one of music's hottest stars, with two multiplatinum albums and a Grammy under her belt, until her third disc, 2004's "Concrete Rose," landed like a brick on the music charts.

AP - NEW YORK (AP) — A book publisher has sued Victoria Gotti for the return of an advance she was paid to write a memoir she never delivered.

AP - TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Deputies at a west Florida jail have transferred Hulk Hogan's son out of solitary confinement into a communal cell.

AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Third-place "Dancing With the Stars" finisher Cristian de la Fuente is back in the swing of things.

Reuters - France said farewell to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent at a funeral on Thursday attended by supermodels, film stars and President Nicolas Sarkozy.

AFP - With a military salute, crowds thronging the streets and the cream of global couture in attendance, France's "prince of fashion", Yves Saint Laurent, was given a grand send-off at his funeral Thursday.

Reuters - The U.S. Federal Communications will act soon on Sirius Satellite Radio's proposed purchase of rival XM Satellite Radio, the chairman of the FCC said on Thursday.

AP - There's a good reason why Dwight Yoakam hasn't performed at the Country Music Association's annual festival in 20 years.

AP - The movie is about a woman who hits a guy with her car and drives home with him still lodged in the windshield — then parks in the garage, closes the door and leaves him there to die.

AP - Jeff Probst says the upcoming season of "Survivor" has already hit a few snags.

AP - Model-turned-first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, actress Catherine Deneuve and the Shah of Iran's widow were among mourners Thursday at the funeral of legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent.

AP - R. Kelly's attorneys continue to try to cast doubt on prosecution witnesses who say they know the alleged victim at the center of the R&B singer's child pornography trial.

AP - English writer Rose Tremain won Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women Wednesday with a novel about an Eastern European migrant in Britain.