New information is released on the Ben Roethlisberger investigation; a disgraced sprinter is getting a new career; Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man; pillow talk gets real as a man marries his pillow.  See the latest KISS News Now!

• New details are emerging about what happened between Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger and the college sophomore from Atlanta.  The athlete's told police that while he and the 20-year-old had contact, nothing was consummated--and that afterward, she fell and hit her head.  A lawyer says two Pennsylvania cop friends were in the group celebrating Roethlisberger's birthday with him last week, and didn't see anything out of place.  The coed has left Georgia College & State to be with her family in Atlanta, and has asked for privacy.
  
  
• Federal regulators are now looking into the crash of a Toyota Prius in a New York suburb. The driver said it accelerated on its own down a driveway and across a road, and into a wall.  Reports of sudden accelerations in Priuses are spiking, but experts on consumer psychology say that's because media attention is making drivers think anything unexpected that goes on with their car--even a misplaced foot--can be chalked up to actual danger.
  
  
• The roads are still dangerous, but not as deadly.  Traffic fatalities in the U.S. are at their lowest level since 1954, when the government first starting tracking such data.  Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says awareness programs on seat belts and drunk drivers have helped, and that fewer people are in their cars these days due to the economy.  Distracted drivers--like those eating, drinking or using cell phones--account for 80% of wrecks.
  
  
• A Cobb County jury convicts a 20-year-old Douglasville man of beating and stabbing his 16-year-old girlfriend to death back in 2008--after Marlisa Wells told him she was pregnant and wanted to keep the baby.  An autopsy showed the teen wasn't actually pregnant.  Matthew Wilkins will be sentenced next week.
  
  
• Many grocery shoppers don't think of how they're compromising privacy when they pull out their store loyalty cards to log discounts at checkout.  The CDC was able to use that information recently to track the source of a salmonella outbreak in 44 states.  Investigators found it was the pepper in a salami from a Rhode Island company.  Consumer advocates worry that kind of shopping-habit information is too easy to misuse.
  
  
• Former sprinter Marion Jones is balling. The disgraced Olympian has signed a contract with the WNBA's Tulsa Shock. Jones was the starting point guard on North Carolina's national championship team in 1994. She was drafted by Phoenix in 2003, but never played in the WNBA. Jones was stripped of her five Olympic track medals after admitting in 2007 that she took a performance-enhancing drug before the 2000 Games.
  
  
  
  
  
• Talk about strange bedfellows.  In South Korea, a 28-year-old man has married a body pillow which has a blonde anime character on it.  Video shows the man taking his pillow, "Fate Testarossa," on amusement park rides and to dinner, where he orders two plates of pasta. There's also footage of him putting the pillow in her white wedding dress and kissing the missus.  Must be some great pillow talk between those two.
  
  
  
  
• What recession?  Forbes reports the number of billionaires jumped from under 800 a year ago to more than a thousand now.  And on top of the list is someone new:  Mexico's telecom titan Carlos Slim slips past Bill Gates.  His worth is an estimated $53.5 billion.  It's the first time since 1994 someone from outside the U. S. has been in the #1 spot.
  
  
• A final agreement on health care is almost in hand. Congressional leaders and administration officials moved closer to working things out during a closed-door meeting yesterday evening in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office.  Any final deal would hinge on cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office.
  
  
• Iowa police accuse a man of going to church for porn--not prayer.  They say the guy broke into the First Christian Church and used the equipment to watch adult flicks. When cops arrived, he was hauling away a garbage can filled with food, clothes, and a 26-inch flat-screen TV.
  
  
• A northern Mississippi school district has canceled next month's high school prom because a couple of girls wanted to come as each other's dates.  18-year-old Constance McMillen wanted to wear a tux and bring her sophomore girlfriend to prom. The Itawamba County school board said it would be a distraction.
  
  
• Want OJ?  Get ready to pay.  Blaming January's deep freeze for damaging crops, Tropicana says starting in May, the 64-ounce orange juice shrinks to 59 ounces, but the price stays the same.  A gallon of OJ will jump as much as 5%-8%.
  
  
• R. Kelly is sidelining himself from his upcoming European tour. A statement from the singer's people say R. Kelly has developed nodules on his vocal cords and his doctor has told him to rest his voice for at least a month--delaying the planned March 22nd start of the tour.
  
  
• The KISS 104.1 weather forecast:  rainy, breezy high of 61 today, low of 51 tonight.