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CINCINNATI – Mississippi basketball coach Andy Kennedy avoided jail time Monday by pleading guilty to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct for his altercation with a cab driver. Kennedy was sentenced to 40 hours of community service and six months probation by Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Dwane Mallory. The …

MUSKEGON, Mich. – A trial opened in Muskegon County Circuit Court on Ted Nugent (search)’s lawsuit against a summer festival that canceled a concert after he allegedly made racial comments on a Denver radio show. Nugent filed the breach-of-contract claim against the Muskegon Summer Celebration (search). The festival canceled his …

Traffic fumes could damage DNA. Signs of DNA damage were higher among toll booth attendants than their colleagues working in an office, reports a new study from Taiwan. Most people are exposed to far fewer fumes than what swirls in the air around toll booths. They aren’t mired in smog, …

WASHINGTON – Former Rep. Gary Condit (search) has settled his defamation lawsuit against Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne. The terms of the settlement were filed with the court on Monday and the case has now been dismissed without prejudice. Dunne is issuing an undisclosed sum to Condit and releasing an …

LONDON – Oil prices briefly surpassed $55 a barrel Thursday and settled at their highest level since late October. The recent rally — crude futures are up more than $10 since the year began — reflects concerns that the world’s petroleum supply is being stretched thin by strong economic growth, …

This is a partial transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume,” March 18, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “Special Report With Brit Hume” weeknights at 6 p.m. ET BRIAN WILSON, GUEST HOST: Turning back to our top story tonight, Congress tried unsuccessfully today to block the removal …

It’s kind of amusing to see President Bush encouraging Arab tyrants to let their people vote. After all the screeching about the Iraq war, it seems to have a certain persuasive power many people thought it would never have. Remember when people said America’s arrogance and unilateralism had robbed the …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraqi police mistook a group of Iraqi soldiers for insurgents Thursday and opened fire, sparking a 10-minute gunbattle that killed five in the northern town of Rabia (search). In the south, protesters demanded their representative be named the country’s new oil minister. The soldiers in Rabia, about …

LOS ANGELES – Prosecutors are asking a judge to permit evidence at Phil Spector’s (search) murder trial that the record producer has a history of pulling guns on women, according to court filings. The prosecution motion, filed Feb. 17 and unsealed Monday, lists nine occasions dating to 1972 when Spector …

ROME – Italy’s lower house of parliament was to vote Tuesday on whether to approve funding to continue Italian troop deployment in Iraq through June. The measure was expected to be approved as Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s (search) conservatives have comfortable majority in the Chamber of Deputies (search). The premier is …