Kanye West arrested

Kanye West arrested

LOS ANGELES — Kanye West faces more than just a “Love Lockdown.”

Los Angeles city prosecutors have charged the rapper with misdemeanor battery, grand theft and vandalism over the videotaped destruction of a paparazzo’s camera.

West was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport days after performing at the MTV Video Music Awards in September. The celebrity gossip site TMZ shot video that showed West breaking the flash of a photographer’s camera inside a terminal, and his manager breaking the camera itself and accosting TMZ’s videographer.

West faces two and a half years in jail if convicted.

Jessica Lange injured

NEW YORK — Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange has been hospitalized after a short fall from her steps at her home near Duluth, Minn.

Lange’s representative, Leslee Dart, says the 59-year-old actress bruised her ribs, broke her collarbone and received a small cut on her forehead.

Dart says Lange, who was vacationing when she fell Tuesday, “will be completely fine and expects to be released from the hospital imminently.”

Lange co-stars with Drew Barrymore in the HBO film “Grey Gardens.”

Today's birthdays

Actress Ursula Andress is 73. Singer Ruth Pointer (Pointer Sisters) is 63. Actress Glenn Close is 62. Actor Bruce Willis is 54.