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Megan Fox announces birth of baby boy

NEW YORK

Megan Fox has taken to social media to announce the birth of her baby boy.

The “Transformers” actress wrote on her Facebook profile Wednesday that she and husband Brian Austin Green welcomed a son named Noah Shannon Green on Sept. 27.

Fox and Green were married in 2010. This is their first child together.

They began dating in 2004 when Green appeared on the TV show “Hope & Faith,” on which Fox had a supporting role.

Green has a son named Kassius from a previous relationship with actress Vanessa Marcil.

Flavor Flav arrested in domestic case

LAS VEGAS

Entertainer Flavor Flav was arrested Wednesday on felony and misdemeanor charges after arguing with his fiancee and threatening to attack her teenage son with a knife, Las Vegas police said.

The 53-year-old former rapper, hip-hop and reality television star, whose legal name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr., was taken into custody about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday at a home several miles southwest of the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas police Officer Bill Cassell said.

Patrol officers did not report that anyone was injured.

Dutch art thieves were no ‘Ocean’s 11’

AMSTERDAM

In Hollywood movies, heists usually feature criminals who plan meticulously and use high-tech equipment to avoid detection.

But the thieves who snatched seven paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Monet worth millions from a gallery in Rotterdam appear to have taken a less-glamorous approach, relying mostly on speed and brute force.

In other words, the theft from the Kunsthal exhibition on avant-garde art was more “smash and grab” than “Ocean’s 11.”

Dutch police said Wednesday they had no suspects in the case, the largest art heist in the country for more than a decade, though an appeal to witnesses had produced more than a dozen tips for investigators to follow up.

‘Puppet March’ to defend funding

WASHINGTON

More than 1,000 puppeteers and public- broadcasting supporters have signed on for a march on the National Mall in Washington three days before the election.

The so-called Million Puppet March being planned online is scheduled for Nov. 3.

By Wednesday morning, more than 1,000 participants had responded on Facebook, saying they would attend.

It comes after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s remarks during a presidential debate calling for the elimination of funding for PBS, which airs the popular children’s show “Sesame Street.”

Organizers originally called the event a Million Muppet March. But they note that they’ve changed the name to include sock puppets, hand puppets, marionettes, shadow puppets and mascots.

Vindicator wire services