Gore going a little too fast

Astoria, Ore. — Former Vice President Al Gore was cited for speeding as he drove a rented car to visit family on the coast earlier this month.

Gore, who was alone, was issued a $141 ticket for driving 75 miles per hour on a highway in the northwest corner of the state, police said this week. The speed limit is 55 mph.

He was issued the ticket on Aug. 3, said Lt. Dale Rutledge of the Oregon State Police.

Gore will pay the fine, spokesman Mike Feldman told The Associated Press Friday.

The trooper said Gore, who carried Oregon when he ran for president in 2000, was polite throughout the encounter.

Regis logs record TV time

New York — Regis Philbin, who will turn 73 next week, has lived a lifetime on television. Logging 15,188 hours on the tube has yielded him fame, fortune — and now a place in the record books.

Friday’s broadcast of “Live With Regis and Kelly” gave the talk-show host the Guinness World Record for most hours on camera. He passes broadcaster Hugh Downs for the record, as calculated by Guinness World Records researcher Stuart Claxton.

“Now it’s all a big blur,” Philbin told The Associated Press Thursday as he looked back on his career that began as a San Diego news anchor in 1958. “When you look back, that’s a lot of hours on TV.”

With now officially the longest resume in television, Philbin wonders, “You’d think it might make me better, but I don’t know.”

LeBron jumps to comic pages

Cleveland — A secret organization is forcing LeBron James to compete in underground basketball tournaments, and he must use his own skills — and enhanced superpowers — to win the King of Basketball title.

Read all about it in his new comic book, “King James.”

The comic is part of a promotion for James’ new sports drink, Powerade Flava23. Starting Sept. 1, buy three bottles of the Cleveland Cavaliers star’s burgundy, sourberry-flavored drink, and get a comic book.

“I’ve always enjoyed reading comics, so helping to create a comic of my own is really cool,” James said. “I mean ripped muscles, impossible moves, scoring at will and beating the bad guys — who wouldn’t want to be a heroic basketball player in a comic book?”

Anti-Bush music tour grows

New York — The coalition of the willing-to-rock is growing.

Sheryl Crow, Jack Johnson and Crosby, Stills & Nash have joined the nearly 20 other musicians trying to unseat President Bush in November.

Crow and company were added to the Vote for Change tour, which boasts a lineup of artists including Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Pearl Jam and Dave Matthews Band. The musicians will perform in an array of combinations at some 38 shows in 32 cities over the course of 12 days in October, concert promoters announced Thursday.

Money generated from the concerts will go to America Coming Together (ACT), which promises on its Web site to “derail the right-wing Republican agenda by defeating George W. Bush.” The shows will play in election swing states.