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Ex-Miss USA: above legal alcohol limit

DETROIT

Former Miss USA Rima Fakih was driving with a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when she was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in the Detroit enclave of Highland Park, according to a police report released Tuesday.

The report obtained by The Associated Press says the 26-year-old from Dearborn was pulled over early Saturday going 60 mph, weaving in heavy traffic and changing lanes with a turn signal.

The report says she was driving a black 2011 Jaguar and “immediately identified herself as Miss USA.”

The former Miss Michigan was born in Lebanon. She won the Miss USA Pageant in May 2010. Her reign ended June 19, 2011.

Two breath tests showed a 0.19 percent and a 0.20 percent blood-alcohol level.

Singer Howard Tate dies in NJ apartment

TRENTON, N.J.

Soul singer Howard Tate has died in his New Jersey apartment a decade after a career resurrection that followed years of tragedy and obscurity.

A spokesman for the Burlington County medical examiner says Tate was 72 when he died of natural causes Friday in Burlington City.

Tate was born in Macon, Ga., and grew up in Philadelphia.

In the late 1960s and early ’70s he had three top 20 R&B hits, including “Get It While You Can,” written by his longtime producer Jerry Ragovoy and made more famous by Janis Joplin.

But Tate fell into drug addiction and ended up homeless.

Vindicator wire services