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LITTLE ROCK — Fergie is expecting her first child. A representative for the Black Eyed Peas singer confirmed the baby news Monday. Fergie’s actor husband Josh Duhamel Tweeted about the news, saying: “Fergie and Me and BABY makes three.” The 37-yearold Fergie and 40-year-oldDuhamel married in 2009. She joined the Black Eyed Peas when the group released its third album, Elephunk, in 2003. Fergie launched her solo debut, The Duchess, to much success in 2006. It featured five Top 5 hits, including “Fergalicious” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry.” Duhamel has appeared in the Transformers films and most recently in Safe Haven.

Letters from John Lennon’s killer detailing his obsession with the novel The Catcher in the Rye to the police officer who arrested him went on sale Monday through a Los Angeles auction house. The four missives from Mark David Chapman to Stephen Spiro are for sale through Moments In Time, which specializes in historical documents and rare autographs, at a fixed price of $75,000, auction house owner Gary Zimet said. Zimet is selling the letters on behalf of Spiro, who arrested Chapman on Dec. 8, 1980, shortly after he shot Lennon outside The Dakota, the ex-Beatle’s Manhattan apartment building.The letters are typed and signed by Chapman. They were written over several months in 1983, after he had pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. In the first letter, from Jan. 15, 1983, Chapman says his reason for writing, besides wanting to be Spiro’s friend, is to ask for help in locating his copy of The Catcher in the Rye, which he was reading at the time of his arrest. Spiro said he received the first letter at the Manhattan precinct where he worked and wrote Chapman back because he was hoping to get evidence on a possible hit list of other victims and people acting with Chapman. The letters stopped abruptly, and Spiro said he believes someone told Chapman not to write to the Police Department anymore. An injury ended Spiro’s job as a New York police officer in 1983, but he said he kept the letters in a file for more than 30 years. He decided to sell them in part to pay off hefty medical bills from cancer and other illnesses and because he thought they should be in the public domain. Spiro, 66, had no contact with Chapman after the last letter. Chapman, 57, was denied parole in August for the seventh time.