R&B singer Beyonce Knowles has been named as the richest star under 30 - with an estimated $80 million in the bank. The Crazy In Love star, 27, topped the list of wealthy young celebrities compiled by Forbes magazine, just weeks after Knowles and her husband Jay-Z were named Hollywood's richest couple by the publication.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines is the target of a defamation lawsuit by the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old boys slain in 1993.Maines spoke out for three people convicted of the slayings and alleged the stepfather was instead involved in the killings.