Knight arrested

Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight (inset) was arrested yesterday in Las Vegas on drug and assault charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife, police said. Police responding to a report of a car hitting a curb near the Las Vegas Strip said they found Knight standing over his longtime girlfriend with a knife in his hand. He is accused of having the drugs ecstasy and hydrocodone when arrested. The 43-year-old founder of Death Row Records was being held on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a controlled substance, possession of dangerous drugs without a prescription, and battery domestic violence. (AP)

Former teen star Mackenzie Phillips was arrested yesterday on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance at Los Angeles International Airport. Phillips, 48, was heading to New York when she failed to pass a security screening and a secondary search turned up a small amount of cocaine and heroin in her possession, airport police said. Phillips is the daughter of John Phillips, the late leader of the singing group the Mamas and the Papas. She has struggled with drug addiction and was fired from "One Day At a Time," which ran from 1975 to 1984, for drug-related causes. (AP)

Federal authorities yesterday arrested a blogger suspected of streaming songs from Guns N' Roses' unreleased album "Chinese Democracy" on his website. FBI agents arrested Kevin Cogill, 27, on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws. They said he posted nine unreleased Guns N' Roses songs on his website in June. (AP)

"I am so surprised to hear that question....I am getting married and having a child today." - George Clooney, toying with a questioner at a news conference in Venice who asked him whether he might ever settle down