Xbox 360 repairs will cost Microsoft $1B

SEATTLE - In another setback for Microsoft Corp.’s unprofitable entertainment and devices division, the company says it is planning to spend at least $1 billion to repair serious problems with its Xbox 360 video game console.

Microsoft declined to detail the problems that have caused an onslaught of “general hardware failures” in recent months but said Thursday it will extend the warranty on the consoles to three years.

Gore arrest highlights Rx drug abuse

CHICAGO - Drug abuse experts say the arrest of Al Gore’s son underscores the growing problem of prescription drug abuse among America’s youth. College students use the stimulant Adderall, an attention deficit drug, to get a speedy high or pull all-nighters.

The other drugs police say they found in Al Gore III’s possession - marijuana, Xanax, Valium and Vicodin - also are campus favorites, experts say.

Tony Parker and Eva Longoria get married

PARIS - Professional basketball star Tony Parker married “Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria at a civil ceremony in Paris on Friday - a prelude to their expected star’studded weekend wedding bash at a lavish and storied chateau.

Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe officiated and gave a speech saying how happy he was that they were married in the City of Light, said the mayor of Paris’ 4th District, Dominique Bertinotti.

UCLA student has old Hilton cell number

LOS ANGELES - For months, Shira Barlow’s cell phone was flooded with wrong-number calls and text messages, mostly between 2 and 4 a.m. on weekends. Told they had reached a college student, callers refused to believe it.

“Baby girl, how are you?” one man purred in a foreign accent. “Why are you doing this?” a woman asked. “This is so rude.” And there were several seemingly random references to “Paris.”

As in Paris Hilton.

Feds search Michael Vick’s property

SURRY, Va. - Federal agents investigating possible dogfighting searched property owned by Michael Vick on Friday.

Portsmouth’s WAVY-TV broadcast video of investigators working under a blue tarp on a portion of Vick’s wooded property in southeastern Virginia. They were sifting dirt collected in white buckets and clearing brush. Some wore T’shirts with the wording “POLICE.”

The U.S. attorney’s office, contacted Friday by The Associated Press, would neither confirm or deny the search or an investigation. Surry County officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

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