Tale of the tape

Ozzy covers John Lennon for 70th milestone

NEW YORK — John Lennon would have been 70 this week, and who better to honor his legacy in song than … Ozzy Osbourne? Yes, Ozzy Osbourne. The Black Sabbath heavy-metal king has made a cover of Lennon’s “How,” available Tuesday on Apple Inc.’s iTunes to benefit Amnesty International. Osbourne says Lennon was a “driving force for humanity.” He also credits the Beatles as the inspiration for his musical career.

Anna Nicole Smith portrayed as coconspirator

LOS ANGELES — In a new twist at the Anna Nicole Smith drug trial, prosecutors are casting the dead celebrity model in the role of coconspirator who pressured her two doctors and her lawyer-boyfriend to provide her with excessive prescription drugs.

Times Square attempted bomber gets life sentence

NEW YORK — The man who plotted to kill Americans by driving a homemade car bomb into Times Square and leaving it to explode has been sentenced to life in prison. A federal judge gave Faisal Shahzad (FY’-sul shah-ZAHD’) a mandatory life prison term at his sentencing Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. The bomb he had packed into the back of an SUV sputtered, injuring no one in a Times Square packed with tourists.