(Tuesday, 10 February 2009)  Chris Brown is due in court in March; Georgia's U. S. Senators say they'll vote against the economic stimulus plan; baseball's richest player apologizes for using steroids.  Read today's KISS News Now! 

• Wrigley is spitting out Chris Brown, yanking his Doublemint Gum ads until his legal problems are sorted out.  Brown, 19, is scheduled in court for an arraignment March 5 on a charge of making criminal threats.  Celebrity "gotcha" site TMZ is quoting police sources as saying 20-year-old Rihanna was bruised, bitten and had a bloody nose after Sunday's altercation in which she allegedly told cops that Brown, 19, had hit her with his fists.  The fight reportedly started inside a $2,000-a-day rented Lamborghini, and a witness say things escalated when the pair both jumped out of the car.  TMZ also reports police took pictures of her injured face.  Rihanna hasn't been seen in public since Brown's arrest.
  
   
• President Barack Obama says the economic meltdown is now a full-blown crisis, and that the economic stimulus is the righ thing to do.  Still, both Georgia's U. S. Senators are fighting the bill.  Senator Saxby Chambliss insists his reasons are not political.
  
  "I cannot support this spending plan," says Chambliss, "a plan which not only adds over a trillion dollars to our national debt, but most importantly, a plan which will do nothing to truly stimulate the economy."
  
  Despite authoring a homebuyers' tax credit which was unanimously added to the legislation, Senator Johnny Isakson says he, too, will vote "no" on the bill, which is still expected to pass the Senate.
  
  
• Spelman College becomes the latest Atlanta school to announce cutbacks; the women's college is eliminating its department of education and letting nearly 2 dozen staffers go.  Clark Atlanta and Morehouse also had job cuts within the past week, citing down enrollment and the economy.
  
  
• DeKalb County's police chief is on two weeks' paid leave as the CEO probes Chief Terrell Bolton's use of comp time.  Bolton's lawyer says the previous CEO authorized the days off:  37 days in 2007, and 24 days through November 2008.
  
   
• Baseball's highest-paid player admits using steroids between 2001-2003.  Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez says he thought he had to use them to prove he was worth the accolades and 10-year platinum contract worth $252 million.  He's apologized to fans, and says he stopped juicing before he had the first of his three MVP seasons.  His admission, in which he calls himself "naive" and "stupid," comes just days after a Sports Illustrated story outing him as one of 104 players who tested positive for steroids in a 2003 survey by Major League Baseball.  There were no penalties for doing so at the time, and the test was supposed to remain anonymous.  It was only in 2004 that testing with penalties began.
  
  "It was such a loosey-goosey era. I'm guilty for a lot of things. I'm guilty for being negligent, naive, not asking all the right questions," Rodriguez said. "And to be quite honest, I don't know exactly what substance I was guilty of using."
  
  
• Federal authorities make an arrest in Texas in January's fatal shooting of a 19-year-old outside an Atlanta recording studio.  U.S. Marshals say they arrested 25-year-old Melvin Bardwell without incident Monday morning.
  
  
• The California octuplets' mother gets $490 a month in food stamps along with child disability payments to help feed and care for her six other children, according to her publicist.  Mike Furtney says Nadya Suleman doesn't see that assistance as "welfare."  Three of her previous children are disabled, but he declined to discuss the disabilities or the amounts of those checks. 
  
  
• The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: sunshine, then clouds later in the afternoon, high near 70.  Low 52.  Wednesday, a 50% chance of showers in the afternoon or evening and a breezy high of 67.