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Britney Spears and a photographer whose foot she ran over have settled a lawsuit.

Ricardo Mendoza sued the pop singer in May, accusing her of assault, battery and negligently driving her car when she ran over his foot in Beverly Hills in October 2007.

Court records filed in Los Angeles show a settlement notice was filed on Monday. The records do not disclose the terms of the agreement.

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• The stage in a long-closed central Indiana high school where James Dean first performed is up for sale. The group that owns the dilapidated Fairmount High School hopes to find a buyer to salvage the stage as it works on plans to demolish the building. Dean grew up on a farm near Fairmount and graduated from the high school in 1949.

• Joseph Wiseman, 91, an actor who played the sinister scientist and title character of Dr. No in the first James Bond feature film, died Monday.

A clump of hair believed to have been trimmed from Elvis Presley's head when he joined the Army in 1958 has sold for $15,000 at a Chicago auction house. -- From Wire Reports