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From The Associated Press

The drummer for the country group Alabama has been sued by his fellow band members, who say he was overpaid $202,670. The lawsuit filed in the Circuit Court of DeKalb County, Ala., claims that in 2003 Mark Herndon was paid for his share of net merchandise sales during the band’s “American Farewell Tour” before a final accounting was done. The final accounting, the suit claims, found that “there were no net merchandise revenues as defined by the contract.” The lawsuit seeks to recover the money.

The four members of Alabama, Teddy Gentry, Randy Owen, Jeff Cook and Herndon. have not performed together live since the 2003 farewell tour. Band members did gather Saturday for the unveiling of a group of bronze statues in their honor in Fort Payne, Ala.

Anne Heche’s five-year marriage to Coleman Laffoon is officially over, but not without a pinch to her pocketbook. A judge ruled that Heche must pay $275,000 to her ex-husband, along with monthly child-support payments of $3,700 for the care of their 6-year-old son, Homer. Heche will also have to pay 75 percent of Homer’s private-school tuition. She and Laffoon, a cameraman, met while working on a documentary about Ellen DeGeneres, with whom Heche was romantically linked for three years.