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The University Daily Kansan 2009
Disturbance ends rap awards show
PASADENA, Calif. — An awards show honoring the best in rapt music had to be cut short when a fight broke out in the audience and scores of people tried to rush the stage.
When police tried to quell the disturbance Tuesday night at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, several in the audience turned on them and began pelting officers with bottles and compact discs.
No one was arrested, and no one was reported hurt.
The second annual The Source Hip-Hop Awards Show was being taped for broadcast on UPN next week, but network officials said the fate of that broadcast now is in doubt.
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Dennis Rodman is being sued for $10 million by a woman who claims he raped her after they met in a bar last summer.
"The accusation is false," Paul Meyer, the former basketball player's lawyer, said Tuesday. "This matter will be vigorously defended."
Tina New, 30, said she was raped by
Rodman on Aug. 20, 1999. She reported the alleged attack to police 10 days later, but the Orange County district attorney's office declined to file charges, citing insufficient evidence.
BOSTON — Call it payback for money spent on skating lessons.
Former Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan's father has won $1 million on a $5 scratch-off lottery ticket.
Dan Kerrigan bought the ticket Aug.
16 at Center Beverage package store
in Stoneham, and was so disbelieving
of his luck that he had store employees
double-check it.
LOS ANGELES — A judge says there's insufficient evidence to prove discrimination claims by a former Price is Right model who sued Bob Barker and the show's producers.
Barker sued Holly Hallstrom after she left the show in 1995, denying claims she made to the media that she was fired because she had gained too much weight.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The first time George Strait heard the song "Murder on Music Row," he wasn't supposed to take it seriously. MCA Records head Tony Brown played it for the star as an amusing curiosity.
Unlikely country song receives nominations
The Associated Press
Strait took it seriously. He recorded the song — which is about Nashville losing
as a duet with Alan Jackson and put it on a hits album. It climbed the country charts to No. 37 with no promotion, or even an official release as a single.
touch with its musical roots
Now, the country music industry — the very industry the song criticizes — has given "Murder on Music Row" two nominations for its prestigious Country Music Association
But songwriters Larry Cordle and Larry Shell said their message was clear. Sitting in Shell's office a block from the skyscrapers of Music Row, the duo shouted with evangelical fever.
Awards.
"We want our country music back, man!" Shell said. "There always comes a time in your life when you have to stand up for
something or not be counted. We want to be counted that we are trying to stand up for country music with this song."
The pair said they believed such artists as Shania Twain, Faith Hill and Lonestar have threatened traditional country music with crossover hits.
Many Nashville artists now strive to reach younger listeners with pop
songs about first love instead of divorce and drinking songs that contain steel guitars and fiddles.
The version by Strait and Jackson is nominated by the CMA for best vocal collaboration, and Cordle and Shell are nominated for best song. The winners will be announced Wednesday, Oct. 4, at the Grand Ole Opry House, broadcast live by CBS.
McDonald's to adopt higher animal-rights standards
The Associated Press
and water to cause hens to lay more eggs.
Washington McDonald's Corp. has ordered its egg suppliers to make improvements in the way they treat their hens, including providing the birds with bigger cages.
Under the new rules, hens will have to have 72 square inches of space, compared with about 50 square inches now.
The new standards also will ban the practice of "forced molting," in which farmers withhold food
The standards were recommended to the company by a panel of scientific advisers that McDonald's formed to address concerns about the way food ant
mals are being treated, said Robert Langert, senior director of public and community affairs for McDonald's.
McDonald's also wants to phase out the practice of trimming the beaks of hens, which is done to prevent them from injuring each other.
During the past two years, McDonald's also has required beef
and pork processors to improve their handling of livestock prior to slaughter. McDonald's, which has long been targeted by animal rights activists, conducts regular audits of the packing plants to determine whether the animals are being treated humanely and will suspend purchases from slaughterhouses that don't meet the company's standards.
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