LITTLE ROCK — Motley Crue singer Vince Neil has been released from jail after serving 10 days of a 15-day sentence for a drunkendriving conviction. The Las Vegas Sun reports the 50-year-old rocker got out of the Clark County Detention Center on Friday. Neil pleaded guilty in January to driving drunk last summer near the Las Vegas Strip. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail and 15 days on house arrest under a plea deal that spared him a trial. He was also fined $585. Neil could have faced up to six months in jail if convicted. Las Vegas police said he was stopped in his black Lamborghini sports car June 27 after leaving the Las Vegas Hilton resort.
CNN is reformatting Parker Spitzer as an ensemble program with Eliot Spitzer - and without Kathleen Parker, who has been the ex-New York governor’s co-host forthe past four months. Effective Monday, the program will be renamed In the Arena. Several people will join Spitzer in the arena each night, including E.D. Hill and Will Cain and “others within and outside the CNN family,” the executive in charge of CNN/U.S., Ken Jautz, said in a memorandum Friday afternoon. Hill, a former Fox News anchor, and Cain, a former columnist for National Review, are both conservative. Almost since the day it started in October, Parker Spitzer was mired by backstage clashes and disagreements, and it was never able to generate ratings traction in the 7 p.m. hour. Parker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post, will continue to appear on CNN occasionally, a CNN spokesman said. In a statement provided by CNN, Parkersaid, “I have decided to return to a schedule that will allow me to focus more on my syndicated newspaper column and other writings.” Both the Fox News Channel and MSNBC tower over CNN at 7 p.m., as they have for several years.
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