Tawny Kitaen faces drug possession charge

Tawny Kitaen facesdrug possession charge
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. -- Tawny Kitaen has been charged with felony drug possession after deputy sheriffs said they found cocaine in her apartment. The 45-year-old actress, who co-starred in the 1984 comedy "Bachelor Party," is scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 18 at Harbor Justice Center in Laguna Niguel, said Susan Kang Schroeder, a spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney's office. If convicted, sentences could range from a drug diversion program to up to three years in prison, Schroeder said Tuesday. Deputies responding to a request for a welfare check in May found 15 grams of cocaine in Kitaen's San Juan Capistrano apartment, authorities said. They said her two children were home at the time, and Kitaen had given deputies permission for the search.
It wasn't immediately known whether Kitaen had retained a lawyer. An after-hours message left for an attorney who previously represented her wasn't immediately returned.
In 2002, Kitaen was arrested on charges she abused her then-husband, former Angels pitcher Chuck Finley. Finley was playing for the Cleveland Indians at that time.
She agreed to anger management and conflict resolution counseling in exchange for the dismissal of two misdemeanor counts of spousal abuse.
Pioneering bluesmanRobert Lockwood Jr. dies
CLEVELAND -- Robert Lockwood Jr., a pioneering Mississippi Delta blues guitarist and singer who forged a career in Cleveland, has died, a hospital spokesman said. He was 91.
Lockwood died of respiratory failure at University Hospitals Case Medical Center at 5 p.m. Tuesday, said spokesman George Stamatis. He had been a patient since suffering a stroke Nov. 3.
Lockwood was born in Turkey Scratch, Ark. At 11, he started guitar lessons with legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, who briefly moved in with Lockwood's mother.
"He never showed me nothing two times," Lockwood said in a 2005 interview with The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer. "After I got the foundation of the way he played, everything was easy."
Lockwood worked on street corners and in bars and became a musical mentor to B.B. King, who listened to Lockwood in the 1940s on the "King Biscuit Time" radio show broadcast from Helena, Ark. Lockwood moved to Chicago in the 1950s and was a session player on records by Little Walter, Sunnyland Slim, Roosevelt Sykes and other blues musicians. He branched out from the delta-style blues to jump blues, jazz and funk. In 1960, he moved to Cleveland and played in blues clubs for decades. As a solo performer, Lockwood earned Grammy nominations for two albums: 1998's "I Got to Find Me a Woman" and 2000's "Delta Crossroads."
Today's birthdays
Actor Michael Gough is 89. Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas is 62. Actor Steve Landesberg is 61. Singer Bruce Hornsby is 52. TV personality Robin Roberts ("Good Morning America") is 46. Actress Salli Richardson-Whitfield is 39. Actor Oded Fehr is 36. Rapper Kurupt (Tha Dogg Pound) is 34. Actor Page Kennedy is 30. Actress Kelly Brook is 27. Actress Miley Cyrus (TV: "Hannah Montana") is 14.