Rap artists are known for stirring up controversy, but now five current and former Detroit officials are whipping up their own storm by suing the rapper Dr. Dre for allegedly invading their privacy.

Danielle Steel has just completed her 54th book, and more than 470 million copies of her romance novels have been sold worldwide.

The situation could hardly have been more ironic. At the same time that Nevada's top officials were fighting against becoming the nation's nuclear waste dumping ground, the state proudly unveiled a new license plate design: a mushroom cloud from an atomic explosion.

State Senator Enoch Kelly Haney has once again made Oklahoma history. In 1980, he became the first full-blooded Native American to serve in the legislature.

Movie and television producers planning to film scenes with a backdrop of Boston's picturesque skyline, Public Garden or Fenway Park may face more complicated shoots: The city's Film Bureau closed at the end of June.