By PAUL ELIAS Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Olympic gold medalist Antonio Pettigrew was identified Friday in government court documents as a user of illegal and banned performance-enhancing drugs.
The gold medalist in the 4×400 relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics is one of seven elite athletes once trained by Trevor Graham who are scheduled [...]

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By TRAVIS REED Associated Press Writer
OCALA, Fla. (AP) _ After haggling with revenue agents, criminal investigators and eventually U.S. prosecutors for almost a decade, Wesley Snipes finally caught them by surprise.
Hours before he was to be sentenced Thursday for failing to file income taxes he insisted he never had to pay, the action star cut [...]

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By DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) _ For a time, ”Harry Potter” superfan Steven Vander Ark seemed to be living a geeky dream.
His Web site _ an obsessive catalog of spells, characters and creatures in J.K. Rowling’s novels _ was a hit among fellow fanatics. He spoke at conventions. Journalists sought him [...]

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By: Todd Knode
Fan Fiction is the genre of literary works written by fans that add to a storyline or characters created by someone else.  Though fan fiction has exploded on the Internet it started decades ago and became popular in Star Trek centered science fiction magazines.  One of the more popular genres today is the [...]

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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) _ A smiling J.K. Rowling stepped out of a car and strode into a lower Manhattan courthouse early Monday for the start of her lawsuit against a publisher.
Rowling, who wore a gray pinstriped jacket and a gray knee-length skirt, didn’t speak as she entered the courthouse where [...]

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By MARK JEWELL AP Business Writer
BOSTON (AP) _ Leaving a copyrighted song where others can get at it with peer-to-peer software doesn’t constitute a copyright violation until someone downloads it, a federal judge said in a record industry lawsuit against college students.
The Boston judge’s comments in a Monday pretrial ruling conflict with statements, also made [...]

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By TERRY KINNEY Associated Press Writer
CINCINNATI (AP) _ The Cincinnati Bengals have released wide receiver Chris Henry, after his fifth arrest since 2005.
The 24-year-old Henry was in Hamilton County Jail pending a court appearance Thursday after being accused of punching an 18-year-old man in the face and breaking his car window with a beer bottle. [...]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Mel Gibson, who’s being sued by a writer over payment for the ”The Passion of the Christ” screenplay, wants to keep financial information about the blockbuster movie out of the public eye.
Benedict Fitzgerald claimed in his February lawsuit that Gibson misled him into accepting a small payment for writing the script [...]

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By SAMUEL MAULL Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) _ A Manhattan jury has convicted Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma of assault.
She faces up to 25 years in prison. The rapper was convicted Thursday in state Supreme Court.
The defense had conceded that Remy Ma fired a shot at a friend she suspected of stealing $3,000, but said [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) _ Heirs of the late actor Steve McQueen have gone to court to stop an apparel manufacturer from using the King of Cool’s name and likeness to promote its products without their consent.
Chadwick McQueen and The Terry McQueen Testamentary Trust say in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that [...]

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