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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The excitement over Kenny Chesney Saturday proved to be a little too much for some people with the night ending with several fights and numerous arrests. Police say 49 people were arrested inside Heinz field during the concert, with another 24 arrests taking place near the venue on the North Shore. Police say most of the arrests were for disorderly conduct, public intoxication and aggravated assault.

FARGO — Police here arrested a mother and son Saturday night after the son refused to leave the Kenny Chesney concert after vomiting on other concertgoers and his mother began pushing police officers. Justin Krohmer, 26, was asked to leave the Fargodome about 11 p.m. after vomiting on people, but refused to do so. His family then intervened and his mother, Susan Krohmer “was physically pushing the police officers while they were dealing with Justin,” Sgt. Mark Lykken said.

Excerpt - The Faulkner County Sheriff's Office and other local law enforcement have joined a search for a man from the Mount Vernon-Enola area who ran from Secret Service agents. Faulkner County Sheriff Karl Byrd said the man may have a gun and has lately been calling the sheriff's department acting as if he is mentally disturbed. "He has called us with strange calls, 'This is Kenny Chesney. Someone stole my tour bus.' Or, 'This is Lt. Gary Moore. I found Kenny Chesney's tour bus in a shed.'" ~ snip ~ "He had a thing for Chelsea Clinton. I don't...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco blocked the Bush administration today from imposing a rule that would require employers to fire workers identified as illegal immigrants in government records or face possible prosecution. U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney granted a nationwide temporary restraining order sought by the AFL-CIO and affiliated unions to keep the government from sending letters to employers demanding that they clear up workers' citizenship status. The order will be in effect until Oct. 1, when another federal judge will consider whether to grant an injunction that would block the rules until a trial on...

NEW YORK -- Leave it to a country singer to compare the breakup of his marriage to losing a big-screen TV. Kenny Chesney told Life magazine that breaking up with Renee Zellweger was "like opening the door to your house and having someone come in and take your big-screen TV off the wall during the big game, and there's nothing you can do about it." Chesney said his music has helped him deal with the breakup of his brief marriage to the "Bridget Jones" actress. "It's like medicine -- and obviously I need that now," the 37-year-old country singer told...

Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney have split - just four months after marrying in the Caribbean. The couple shocked fans when they announced that they'd wed on May 9 in a sunset ceremony on St. John in the Virgin Islands before 35 close family and friends. It was the first marriage for both. No further details about the couple's split have been made available, but People magazine reports that they're having their marriage annulled. Unfortunately for Zellweger, fellow Texan Dr. Phil McGraw's summer prediction that her marriage to Chesney would last just four months has been proven right. At the...

LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger and country music star Kenny Chesney were married Monday in a small ceremony on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a publicist for Zellweger said. The ceremony took place in front of close friends and family, Los Angeles-based publicist Nanci Ryder said in a statement. The bride wore a Carolina Herrera dress, she added. It was the first marriage for both. The couple met at the Concert of Hope tsunami relief benefit Jan. 15, where Chesney was singing and Zellweger was answering telephones, the syndicated TV show "The Insider"...