VALLEJO, Calif. The plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West's mother before she died has been sentenced to a year in jail for drunken driving.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. A judge has sealed records in a paternity suit filed by a California man who claims he is the biological son of the late country singer Eddy Arnold.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Beyonce Knowles, Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson are all multitasking for the NAACP Image Awards, earning nominations Wednesday in both music and film categories.

NEW YORK Jay-Z isn't performing at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, but he is planning to make a big splash on the eve of the event.

LOS ANGELES Lisa Marie Presley is expressing her condolences over Jett Travolta's death and defending Scientology, the religion that Presley, John Travolta and Kelly Preston follow.

ATLANTA Rapper T.I. went to court and promptly paid an $8,000 overdue lawyer bill for the mother of two of his sons, telling a judge the debt was an oversight.

BERLIN Florian Schneider, a co-founder of Kraftwerk, the German band that built the foundation for electro-pop and scored a chart-topping global hit with "Autobahn" in 1974, has left the group, its label said Tuesday.

DETROIT Ron Asheton, the guitarist for the Stooges whose raw sound helped inspire the first generation of punk musicians, has died. He was 60.

OSLO, Norway British singer Amy Winehouse dropped her appeal in a Norwegian drug case and will accept a fine for illegal marijuana possession in 2007, her attorney said Tuesday.

BERLIN Fans of Germany's renowned Berlin Philharmonic can now follow the orchestra's performances from anywhere in the world through a new "digital concert hall" accessible via the Internet.

BERLIN Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and his orchestra of Arab and Israeli musicians have canceled performances in the Middle East this weekend because of fighting between Israel and Hamas, he said Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia The good girl gone bad has promised to be good for one night.

NEW YORK The final note of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign may very well be sung by Jon Bon Jovi.

NEW YORK The final note of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign may very well be sung by Jon Bon Jovi.

LOS ANGELES It looks like the old Dead are gettin' on.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. In Dec. 30 and Dec. 31 stories about New Year's Eve parties, The Associated Press reported that the economic downturn contributed to slow ticket sales for events hosted by R&B singer John Legend and Lindsay Lohan. It is typical for New Year's Eve parties hosted by Opium Group to sell out the afternoon of Dec. 31, and they did for the latest parties, spokeswoman Vanessa Menkes said.

NEW YORK At the end of Giacomo Puccini's "La Rondine," an enamored woman jilts her ardent but poor lover, saying she can't give up her old life as a rich man's mistress.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Music sales have continued to slump in 2008 as the increased number of downloads of digital tracks failed to make up for a plunge in the sale of compact discs.

MIAMI Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly thinks his team has figured out how to beat Virginia Tech.