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Rapper Snoop Dogg was arrested Tuesday in Burbank, Calif., after leaving NBC Studios where he had taped a performance for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Police said they are investigating Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, for illegally possessing a handgun and drugs.

Police seized a handgun, cocaine and marijuana after searching his home and car, said Sgt. Kevin Grandalski.

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Nov. 27, 2006 — Nirvana’s iconic 1991 single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” beat out hits from Madonna, Britney Spears and U2 to be named the best pop song in 20 years by Britain’s Q Magazine.

In its November issue, which celebrates Q’s 20th anniversary, the publication set out to identify the top 20 singles of the past two decades. Their picks range from pop sensations like Britney Spears’ ” … Baby, One More Time,” and Outkast’s “Hey Ya” to The Prodigy’s punk/techno mix “The Firestarter” and Guns N’ Roses’ hard-edged rock ballad, “Sweet Child O’ Mine.”

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NEW YORK (AP) — Tracy Morgan, a former “Saturday Night Live” regular who co-stars on NBC’s “30 Rock,” was arrested Tuesday in Upper Manhattan on drunken driving charges, the district attorney’s office said.

The 38-year-old comedian was stopped around 4:30 a.m. while driving a Cadillac Escalade on the Henry Hudson Parkway near West 158th Street, said Edison Alban, a spokesman for District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.

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Have the Colts broken their Patriots jinx? It appears that way — at least in the regular season.Peyton Manning went over 300 yards for the third consecutive game and Tom Brady was uncharacteristically sloppy with four interceptions as the Colts scored a 27-20 win over their bitter rivals.

With the win, Indianapolis went to 8-0 on the season and remained the league’s only unbeaten team.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sacha Baron Cohen’s Kazakh alter-ego Borat made glorious returns at the box office, surprising Hollywood with a No. 1 debut.

“Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” 20th Century Fox’s big-screen incarnation of Cohen’s Kazakh journalist from “Da Ali G Show,” took in $26.4 million during its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Last year, more than 5,000 janitors in Houston decided to form a union, giving organized labor one of its biggest victories ever in the South.

But now the janitors are locked in a new struggle. They have gone on strike because five Houston cleaning companies have rejected their proposal for a salary increase to $8.50 an hour, up from the current average of $5.25 an hour.

The companies say the proposal for a 62 percent increase, along with health insurance, is unrealistic.

The janitors, who generally work four hours a day, say they are merely asking for enough to support their families.

The tensions, and the theatrics, intensified sharply yesterday as the union’s supporters blocked a main thoroughfare in front of the Galleria mall, staging a sit-in that led to the arrest of 12 people. For nearly two hours, the group blocked Post Oak Boulevard, just outside a Neiman Marcus store, with the police seeming confused about how to handle the situation.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Justice Department plans to dispatch more than 800 federal observers and monitors to 20 states to protect voting rights in potentially troubled polling locations, officials announced Tuesday.

That is a record number of federal officials watching polling stations in an off-year election.

“Yes, the anticipated closeness of races is one factor in our decisions about where we’ll be sending people,” said Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Wan Kim.

Kim said he would not identify until Monday the more than 65 cities and counties to which the observers will be sent.

The locations where federal observers will be stationed are selected because of past polling problems, an uneasy history among ethnically or racially diverse groups, or where fears and allegations of potential violations are asserted.

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