Lab tests on suspected illegal drugs taken from rapper T.I.’s car Wednesday night should be completed by Friday, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s spokeswoman.

Police arrested T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, and his wife, “Tiny” Tameka Cottle, during a traffic stop on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood on Wednesday night.

Harris, 29, and Cottle, 35, allegedly possessed a controlled substance, the spokeswoman said.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. (AKA), Omicron Tau Omega Chapter and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Spring/Woodlands/Huntsville Chapter donated school supplies to Harris Academy an elementary school located in Houston’s historic Acres Homes community.

“Houston’s North community has a great need. As National organizations we are charged with supporting our local schools.” says Kelly Hodges, Chairman of the School Supply Drive. Harris Academy is just one of many schools. Unfortunately we can’t support all of the schools but it we can start with one!”

You need four things to get ready for body painting: “A shave, clean underwear, wine and nipple coverings,” says model Veronica Guerra.

With a passion for education and community involvement popular actor Idris Elba encouraged TSU students to “stay true to their goal of obtaining a college education.” Elba recently spoke at the historically black Texas Southern University. He told students to stay in school and take advantage of every opportunity given to them to succeed.

“As scripted.” That’s a phrase one of our television producers barks (or gently intones) in our ears when everything is to proceed as planned. It hardly ever happens on a college football Saturday. It would never happen every Saturday. But the 2009 season largely went “as scripted.”

Did you know that from the AP poll on Sept. 20 through the poll just before conference championship weekend that the same three teams occupied the top three spots? Alabama, Texas and Florida were the dominant trio pretty much wire to wire.

The Italian carmaker said Thursday it wants to replace an adhesive that in some circumstances can melt due to overheating and possibly ignite.

Fires in the car that sells for €197,000 ($253,000) have been reported in California, Switzerland, China and France

Police are investigating the death of an 18-year-old man found by his father at a home in southeast Houston on Wednesday.

The body of Patrick Russell Carver was discovered in a home in the 9900 block of Southport near Fuqua about 10:40 a.m., police said.

Police said he had apparent blunt force trauma on his head and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Certainly in this country, Bob Marley’s dreadlocked shadow is cast over all other reggae. His legend is so vast that there are two separate bands featuring former members of his groups: The Wailers, who have the formidable Aston “Family Man” Barrett, one of the greatest bassists of all time, and the Original Wailers (playing Friday night at Scout Bar), who have a pair of great Marley guitarists in Al Anderson and Junior Murvin.

Last month, at Tales of the Cocktail, a week-long convention for the spirits industry in New Orleans, Eben Freeman, best known as the creator of smoked Coke and “solid” cocktails at the now-defunct Tailor in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, gave a seminar on protecting one’s intellectual property as a bartender. The panelists, Sheila Morrison from the Trademark Office, and Riley Lagesen, who has a private business law practice with a niche focus on the restaurant industry, discussed the nature of a bartender’s creative work and who is allowed to use it. After the seminar, I spoke to Freeman, who admitted he came up with the idea for the talk after becoming fed up with other bartenders and establishments taking credit for and profiting from his recipes and techniques. (Fat washing, for example, the process by which a spirit can be infused with, say, bacon, was pioneered in part by Freeman, yet is often attributed to others.) “Someone needs to get sued … to set a precedent,” he told me.

Cincinnati Bengals wide-receiving duo Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens refer to themselves as the Batman and Robin of the NFL, but in the hip-hop world, Jay-Z and Eminem are more like the Batman and Superman of music. And just like it’s rare to see the two titans of comics together in the same panel, you know it’s a special occasion when Slim Shady and Jigga team up for a live show.