Snoop Dogg leaves Britain after airport fracas

London – Snoop Dogg flew out of Britain on Friday following his arrest over a fracas at Heathrow Airport in which seven police officers were injured.

The 34-year-old rapper boarded a Virgin Atlantic flight bound for Johannesburg, South Africa, late Friday. He was due to perform in Durban today.

Snoop and five other men were arrested Wednesday on charges of violent disorder and affray and spent the night in jail, the Metropolitan police said.

Police said Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, and the other men, all U.S. citizens in their 30s, had not been charged with any offenses. They were released Thursday but must return to London for further questioning.

Rapper 50 Cent sounds off on host Oprah Winfrey

New York – He usually saves his beefs for other rappers; this time, 50 Cent is going after Oprah Winfrey.

In an interview with The Associated Press, 50 complained that Winfrey rarely invites rappers on her talk show: “I think she caters to older white women.”

“Oprah’s audience is my audience’s parents,” the 29-year-old said. “So, I could care less about Oprah or her show.”

He’s not alone in his resentment.

Rapper-actor Ludacris, aka Chris Bridges, said in the May issue of GQ magazine that Winfrey was “unfair” during a show he appeared on in October with co-stars from best-picture Oscar winner “Crash.”

“She edited out a lot of my comments while keeping her own in,” he said. “Of course, it’s her show, but we were doing a show on racial discrimination, and she gave me a hard time as a rapper, when I came on there as an actor.”

NPR, Christian radio listeners hearing Howard Stern instead

Baltimore – Some commuters hoping to ease into their day with National Public Radio or Christian broadcasts are hearing shock jock Howard Stern instead.

Their favorite stations aren’t broadcasting Stern’s show, which has moved to satellite radio provider Sirius. Instead, poorly installed or defective satellite radio units, which act as mini-FM transmitters, are being blamed.

“Usually they’re upset, because they don’t know what’s going on. This isn’t what they tuned in to (hear),” Charles W. Loughery, president of the Word FM Radio Network, a group of contemporary Christian stations in eastern Pennsylvania, told The (Baltimore) Sun.

Some of the units use FM signals to broadcast the satellite signal to the car’s audio system using frequencies low on the FM band such as 88.1, often reserved for noncommercial, religious or educational stations. The signal from the satellite system can sometimes override broadcasts from those stations for listeners in nearby cars.

Anthony Brandon, president and general manager at an NPR affiliate in Baltimore, said he has sent 60 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, which says it is investigating.