Tuesday, November 22, 2011
newsmakers
Springsteen reveals England concert dates
NEW YORK
Bruce Springsteen has announced the first dates for his European tour with the E Street Band.
They’ll play four shows in England next summer.
The dates are June 21 in Sunderland; June 22 in Manchester; June 24 at the Isle of Wight festival; and July 14 at Hard Rock Calling in London.
The European shows will run from mid-May through the end of July.
They’ll also be touring in the United States. That information will be released down the road.
This will be the first tour for the E Street Band since saxophonist Clarence Clemons died in June from complications of a stroke.
Springsteen’s last tour was the “Working on a Dream” tour, which ended in 2009.
Las Vegas school wins Hot Chelle Rae concert
LAS VEGAS
A Las Vegas high school was getting a private concert from pop band Hot Chelle Rae after winning an anti-bullying contest.
The concert was set for Monday at Southwest Career and Technical Academy.
The school won for having what organizers say is southern Nevada’s largest commitment to combat bullying. Students took an online pledge against bullying and voted for their school through the Flip the Script School Takeover Contest sponsored by Las Vegas-based radio station KLUC.
Hot Chelle Rae is known for its hits “Tonight Tonight“ and “I Like It Like That.” The Nashville-based band was named new artist of the year Sunday at the American Music Awards.
Judge refuses retesting of Jackson evidence
LOS ANGELES
A Los Angeles judge refused Monday to allow new laboratory tests on evidence used to convict Michael Jackson’s doctor.
In advance of Dr. Conrad Murray’s sentencing next week, his lawyers filed a motion Friday — nine days after he was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter — for additional analysis on the drug vial believed to have contained the fatal dose of the anesthetic that killed Jackson.
A lawyer for Murray, J. Michael Flanagan, said lab tests on the residue inside the vial might invalidate a theory proposed by a prosecution medical expert on the final day of the trial. That witness, Dr. Steven Shafer, suggested Murray had removed a small amount of the anesthetic propofol from the vial and then added another drug to prevent a burning sensation before hooking Jackson up to an intravenous drip.
At a hearing Monday, Flanagan told Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor that tests on the ratio of the two drugs “could be material to confirm or negate this hypothesis.”
A prosecutor opposed the testing as “neither here nor there.”
“The trial is done. It was a fair trial,” Deputy District Attorney David Walgren said.
The judge agreed, saying the defense should have asked to test the vial before the case went to the jury.
Vindicator wire services