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Lohan faces assault, reckless driving

NEW YORK

Actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested Thursday in New York City after police said she hit a woman during an argument, then hours later was charged in California with lying to police and reckless driving for a June crash in which her Porsche slammed into a dump truck.

The “Mean Girls” and “Freaky Friday” star was arrested at 4 a.m. and charged with third-degree assault.

She left a police precinct nearly four hours later with a black jacket pulled over her head.

Lohan, 26, reportedly got into the spat with another woman at Club Avenue, in Manhattan’s Chelsea section. She struck the woman in the face with her hand, police said. The woman did not require medical attention.

After the June crash, the actress told police her assistant was driving, but detectives determined Lohan was behind the wheel, police said. Prosecutors charged her with three misdemeanors: providing false information to police, reckless driving and willfully obstructing a police officer from their duties.

W.Va.-set ‘Buck Wild’ series debuts Jan. 3

CHARLESTON, W.Va.

Move over, “Jersey Shore” cast. A bunch of wild young West Virginians are about to fill your time slot.

MTV will begin airing the reality show “BUCKWILD,” shot in Sissonville and Charleston, at 10 p.m. Jan. 3, spokeswoman Candice Ashton said Thursday. Two half-hour episodes will air back-to-back each week, following nine “carefree and adventurous friends.”

The network ordered 12 episodes of the show last fall, and a trailer shows the cast drinking and swearing, four-wheeling and fighting, even filling a dump truck with water and using it as a swimming pool.

The cast includes: Shain, a former high-school prom king who missed the dance because he had to work; Shain’s best friend, Joey, a self-proclaimed ladies’ man; and Shae, a nursing student who goes for the bad boys.

There’s also: Anna, a “wild child” trying to decide between work and school; brave but troublemaking tomboy Ashley; Morgantown native Cara, who’s recovering from a failed relationship; heart-breaking pretty boy Tyler; danger-avoiding college student Katie; and the oldest of the group, Salwa, a college graduate living at home with strict parents and always eager to start the party.

Vindicator wire services