AP - A judge on Wednesday refused to dismiss a misdemeanor driving without-a-valid-license case against Britney Spears.

AP - NEW YORK (AP) — It's Britney, baby, one more time. Despite her train-wreck performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last year, the network confirms Spears will kick off the show once again.

AP - A Los Angeles man claims in a lawsuit that Gene Simmons took him for a ride on a marketing deal with the Indy Racing League.

Reuters - Britney Spears is to star at this year's MTV Video Music Awards, a year after a calamitous comeback performance at the same award ceremony. But this time the pop singer won't be performing.

E! Online - Looks like Akon may get Konvicted after all.

AP - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered a concert promoter to pay R&B singer-songwriter Ne-Yo $700,000 stemming from A lawsuit filed earlier this year.

AP - Solange Knowles turns out to be a little sensitive about using a certain b-word.

AP - Akon is headed to trial on criminal charges he tossed a fan offstage at an upstate concert last summer.

Reuters - A Paris music festival will offer discounts to disappointed Amy Winehouse fans after the troubled British soul singer cancelled a gig at the last minute, organizers said on Wednesday.

E! Online - Because of some backstage machinations, Ne-Yo is a little bit richer.

E! Online - Great White is hoping to make peace with the past—and put their legal problems behind them.

E! Online - For Bob Dylan fans, the answers these days are blowin' in the keys of C, G, D, F, A, B and E.