AP - The Kiss Army fan club has an enthusiastic new recruit: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

AP - The drummer for the rock group Hanson is now a first-time father.

AP - A Las Vegas hotel has announced that the rest of Toni Braxton's scheduled shows have been canceled so the singer can focus on her health.

AP - A Long Island home at the center of a bitter dispute between 50 Cent and the mother of his son was destroyed by a suspicious fire early Friday.

E! Online - Kanye West is getting his late mother's affairs in order.

E! Online - Perhaps the Hanson brothers are trying to spawn a symphony orchestra.

E! Online - Recovery is going to be the only thing on Toni Braxton's to-do list for awhile.

Reuters - Newly crowned "American Idol" champion David Cook took over America's Hot 100 singles chart on Thursday, sending a record-breaking 11 new titles into the tally a week after he won the top-rated TV talent show.

E! Online - Well, that's one way to show the measure of a man.

AP - Tenor Marcello Giordani is canceling his performances through July because of a recurrence of a herniated disk.

AP - A coroner ruled Thursday that R&B singer Sean Levert died of natural causes after falling ill in jail, and his family reacted by saying his death possibly could have been prevented.

AP - A prosecution witness used images of a lower back mole on Thursday to link R. Kelly to a sex tape at the center of the R&B star's child pornography trial.