Travolta home

Actor John Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston, returned home to Ocala, Fla., with the remains of their 16-year-old son, Jett, who died at the family vacation home in Grand Bahama. The couple received an urn with his ashes and left the island chain Monday night, said Obie Wilchcombe, a member of the Bahamas parliament and a family friend. Doctors performed an autopsy Monday on Jett but did not release results. An undertaker said the teen's death certificate listed "seizure" as the cause of death. In Ocala, Mayor Randy Ewers said the city sent the Travolta family condolences. "They're fantastic people, really family oriented," Ewers said. "We want to respect their privacy as much as possible." (AP)

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 yesterday. Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were arrested during a concert stop in the western city of Bergen in October 2007 on charges of possessing 7 grams of marijuana. They were held overnight and released after paying fines of $428. Winehouse, 25, later appealed the fine, claiming Norwegian police made mistakes in the case. (AP)

Prosecutors, in a sexually explicit court motion filed yesterday, said that they will fight dismissal of a three-decade-old conviction of director Roman Polanski for raping a 13-year-old. The motion, drawing on transcripts of grand jury hearings in 1977, provided details of a photo shoot in which the girl was given champagne and part of a Quaalude pill, was told to disrobe, and was raped by Polanski. The girl, now a 44-year-old woman, has said she never wanted Polanski to go to prison and says the case should be dismissed. Polanski, 75 and living in exile in France, wants to return to the United States. A hearing is scheduled for Jan. 21 in Los Angeles. (AP)

An attorney for actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright says prosecutors have agreed to drop all charges in an incident at a Louisiana bar last year. Brolin, Wright, and five crew members of the Oliver Stone film "W." were arrested on misdemeanor charges at the Stray Cat Club on July 12. Brolin and Wright were charged with interfering with police officers after a disturbance involving a crew member broke out. (AP)

When he returned to hosting CBS's "The Late Late Show" after his holiday break, Craig Ferguson held his left hand up to the camera and announced that he'd gotten married to art dealer Megan Wallace Cunningham. This is Ferguson's third marriage. He has a 7-year-old son, Milo, from his second marriage. (AP)

"We did not break up!"
- Lindsay Lohan, setting the record straight in a MySpace post about herself and DJ Samantha Ronson.