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From The Associated Press

A misdemeanor assault case against Hank Williams Jr. has been dismissed in Memphis, Tenn., 10 months after a cocktail waitress accused the country singer of yelling obscenities and choking her at a local hotel, a prosecutor said.

Holly Hornbeak had testified that Williams, 57, left red marks and bruised her neck when he choked her.

District Attorney William Gibbons would not say whether Hornbeak wanted to drop the case or if the parties reached a financial settlement.

Ben Stiller had to put on pink shoes, a blond wig and silver headband and strut against an Owen Wilson impersonator before claiming Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award.

"Just like at home, honey," Stiller, 41, said to his wife, actress Christine Taylor, as he put on the female attire.

Financial guru and best-selling author Suze Orman says she wishes she could marry her partner Kathy Travis, partly because it would save them both a lot of money.

"Both of us have millions of dollars in our name," she told The New York Times Magazine in its Feb. 25 edition. "It's killing me that upon death, K.T. is going to lose 50 percent of everything I have to estate taxes. Or vice versa."

The host of CNBC's "The Suze Orman Show" has had a seven-year relationship with Travis.

With a liquid net worth of about $25 million and real estate holdings of $7 million, Orman said she enjoys spending money and playing the stock market.