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U2 postpones tour because of family illness
By wire services
Published March 10, 2006
U2 has postponed the final 10 dates of its "Vertigo" world tour because of illness in a band member's family.
"Any fan of U2 will realize that this decision has not been taken lightly," promoter Arthur Fogel said.
The statement, released Wednesday, gave no details of the nature of the illness or the band member affected. A family illness was cited when U2 postponed the start of its world tour in January 2005. When Dublin's Sunday World newspaper identified the relative and the illness in a front-page story, guitarist the Edge obtained a temporary injunction, claiming invasion of privacy.
The postponed tour dates were in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Hawaii.
Insurance lapse stops work at Neverland Ranch
California barred workers from Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch on Thursday and fined the singer $69,000 because the estate's workers' compensation insurance policy had lapsed.
The "stop order" was issued after a worker reported that a co-worker who had been injured did not have the state-required health coverage, said Dean Fryer, spokesman for the California Department of Industrial Relations.
Regulators determined coverage for 69 employees at the Santa Barbara County ranch lapsed Jan. 10, Fryer said.
Jackson, 47, has lived in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain since being acquitted of child molestation charges last year.
Men indicted for posting upcoming album to Web
Two men accused of violating copyright laws have been indicted in Nashville.
Robert Thomas of Milwaukee and Jared Bowser of Jacksonville are accused of making portions of alternative country artist Ryan Adams' Jacksonville City Nights available for download on a Web site last August - about a month before the record's commercial release on Nashville-based Lost Highway Records.
If convicted on all counts, Thomas and Bowser each face up to 11 years in prison.
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