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Dreadlocked heartthrob Jason Castro, 20, was booted from "American Idol" last night, leaving three finalists in contention for the "Idol" title and a recording contract later this month: David Archuleta, rocker David Cook and the only remaining female, Syesha Mercado.

One of the America's most successful country singers, Eddy Arnold, 89, died today in a Nashville-area care facility. Arnold is best remembered for his song "Make the World Go Away." Arnold had many other No. 1 country hits as well as a Top 10 hit on pop music charts.

A pioneer of "The Nashville Sound," he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1966 and, in 1967, became the first person to receive the Country Music Association's entertainer of the year award.

Ice cream mogul Irvine Robbins, 90, who co-founded the Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream company, died this week at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. The company's website says that although their advertising slogan promotes 31 flavors of ice cream, they've actually created over 1,000 ice cream flavors.

Cashing in a $6,000 life insurance policy, Robbins used the proceeds to open his first ice cream parlor in December 1945 in Glendale, CA. By the late 1940s, he and his brother-in-law, Burton Baskin, who owned an ice cream parlor in nearby Pasadena, partnered to create Baskin-Robbins.

Wedding photographs of newlywed Jenna Bush, 26, daughter of President George Bush, can be seen on CNN. Her Oscar de la Renta white organza wedding dress was decorated with embroidery and beading. Jenna Bush wed Henry Hager last night at President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch.