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Australian trial over Johnny Depp’s dogs pending next year
ROD McGUIRK
Associated Press
CANBERRA, Australia (AP)
— Actor Johnny Depp’s
wife Amber Heard an-
nounced on Monday that
she will fight charges that
she smuggled the couple’s
Yorkshire terriers Pistol and she would come to Austra-
Boo into Australia.
Heard was charged in July
with two counts of illegally
importing the dogs into the
country and one count of
One Direction leads the way on Twitter’s list of 2015 tweets
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Messages of love and
gratitude shared by the
boy band One Direction
topped Twitter’s charts this
year, eclipsing President
Barack Obama’s celebra-
tion of the U.S. Supreme
Court’s decision legalizing
gay marriage.
One Direction members
accounted for half of
the 10 most recirculated
tweets, including the three
most popular.
All the One Direction
tweets were either direct-
ed at bandmates or the
group’s fans. None are
likely to be remembered
for heralding pivotal mo-
ments in history.
“All the love as always.
H,” One Direction’s Harry
Styles tweeted in March
after Zayn Malik an-
nounced plans to leave
the group. Styles boasts
26.3 million Twitter follow-
ers. The band’s other cur-
rent and former members
have amassed between
16.6 million and 23.7 million
followers apiece.
Project to play music from Rock Hall inductees in Cleveland
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleve-
land is set to receive col-
orful rock ‘n’ roll-themed
sculptures that play snip-
pets of songs from its rock
hall inductees at regular
intervals.
The Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame and Museum and
Destination Cleveland are
planning to put the sculp-
tures along the downtown
business spine ahead of
the 2016 Republican Na-
tional Convention.

producing a false docu- in the appropriate forum of reported. Heard did not ap- tine regulations to prevent
ment to quarantine offi- the Court, is not intended pear at the Southport Mag- diseases such as rabies
cials. She could face up to to in any way diminish the istrates Court in Queensland from spreading to its shores.
10 years in prison and heavy importance of Australia’s state on Monday for the lat- Bringing pets into the coun-
fines if convicted. laws,” she said in the state- est hearing. A court official, try involves applying for a
In a statement, Heard said ment. The Gold Coast Bul- who would not be quoted permit and quarantine on
she instructed her lawyer to letin newspaper said her by name because of gov- arrival of at least 10 days.
plead not guilty, and that lawyer had asked the trial ernment policy, said the Heard is accused of illegally
date be moved up from an case was adjourned until bringing her dogs into Aus-
lia to fight the charges in available date in March. Dec. 15. The official could tralia on a private jet when
a trial next year on a date The pair’s legal team would not comment on what else she visited Depp, who was
yet to be set. “My decision not say whether Depp had taken place during filming the latest Pirates of
to defend these charges, would also attend the court Monday’s court hearing. the Caribbean movie on
as will become apparent for the trial, the newspaper Australia has strict quaran- the Gold Coast.q

Niall Horan, from left, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne of One Direction arrive at tor Leonard Nimoy philoso-
phizing five days before his
102.7 KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball iHeartRadio at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Messages of love and death and Caitlyn Jenner
introducing herself after
gratitude shared by the boy band One Direction topped Twitter’s charts this year, eclipsing her transition from one-
time Olympic decathlon
President Barack Obama’s celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing gay champion Bruce Jenner.
Twitter also released some
marriage. One Direction members accounted for half of the 10 most recirculated tweets, of the most popular top-
ics, denoted by hashtags,
including the three most popular. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP) that resonated with the
more than 300 million us-
Obama nabbed the fourth on gay marriage as “a big Arabia King Salman af- ers of its short-messaging
service. The list included
spot in the Twitter rankings step in our march toward ter his crowning, hip hop (hashtag)JeSuisParis after
released Monday with a equality.” personality Kayne West last month’s terrorist attack
June 26 tweet that hailed Other tweets in Twitter’s calling for people to do in France, (hashtag) Black-
the Supreme Court’s ruling Top 10 came from Saudi everything they can, ac- LivesMatter after police
shootings of African-Amer-
icans in several U.S. cities,
(hashtag) LoveWins after
the Supreme Court’s rul-
ing on gay marriage and
(hashtag) RefugeesWel-
come as people fled the
Middle East for Europe.
Although Twitter Inc. has
built a big audience,
Facebook’s social network
is five times larger. A list
about what people were
talking about on Face-
book this year is expected
to be released soon, too.q

The installation, called Jennifer Kramer tells WKYC- ors such as lime green, pink 30 seconds at noon and
TV that the project will be a and purple. 30 seconds at 5 you heard
“Rock Box,” is expected to unifying force in downtown Reigelman and Greg Har- some unbelievable, excit-
Cleveland. “We always say ris, president and CEO of ing instrumental that was
be made up of stacks of that we have great dots, the Rock Hall, said the proj- coming out of these boxes
but we don’t have a great ect was inspired by build- through the city?’ “
2-foot-square loudspeak- way of connecting them,” ings that let out sounds reg- The design calls for about
Kramer said. The speakers ularly, such as church bells, 50 speaker boxes to be
ers that play music from will be made of black steel. sirens, and whistles. installed in various sizes of
Mark Reigelman II, who “I lived for a long time in stacks and towers.
rock Hall of Famers. The graduated from the Cleve- a town that had a noon The city gave final approv-
land Institute of Art, said whistle and a 5 o’clock al for the $500,000 project
goal is to create a stron- the center of the speakers whistle,” Harris told The on last Friday. It’s being
that look like the horn of a Plain Dealer. “I thought, funded by Destination
ger link between the hall gramophone will have col- ‘Wouldn’t it be great if for Clevelandq
of fame and downtown,
which are separated by
railroads, a 70-foot drop in
elevation, and highways
and ramps.
Destination Cleveland
communications manager