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(LEAD) N. Korea to hold rock festival in March: report SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korea, under international censure for trying to arm itself with nuclear weapons, plans to host an international rock music festival next year, the country's main radio station said Friday. The Voice of Korea said in a report that the "Rock for Peace" festival will be held in Pyongyang, the capital, on March 1, a major national holiday marking an anti-Japanese public uprising in 1919. The North's radio station carried the same report in its English Web site, with an announcement that Western musicians, including...

Florida police have arrested an ex-convict at a rock festival wearing a stolen bright orange prison uniform. The 25-year-old from Lakeland allegedly stole the uniform when he was released in January. Pasco County officers say he should have been at home under a curfew when they arrested him at the Livestock festival. Sheriff's detective Mark Morrison became suspicions when he saw: 'Polk County Jail' written on the man's shirt and trousers. The suspect told officers he was in a Halloween costume. He's been arrested for violating his parole. "He stood out in the crowd," sheriff's spokesman Jon Powers told the...