No due date for Dion...

Canadian pop singer Celine Dion isn’t pregnant after all.

Dion’s U. S.-based publicist, Kim Jakwerth, said Wednesday the couple’s doctor had initially confirmed a pregnancy in August through in vitro fertilization.

When that information started to leak to the public, Dion confirmed it. But a day later, she found out the embryo had not been implanted successfully.

Jakwerth said Dion did not immediately announce that she wasn’t pregnant because she was hopeful another implantation would work, and had wanted to keep the matter private.

Jakwerth said the couple is going to keep trying.

Dion’s husband, Rene Angelil, told the Journal de Montreal that he and Dion are disappointed but determined, and that they take comfort in the fact they already have one child.

Dion, 41, and Angelil, 67, have an 8-year-old son, Rene-Charles, who was conceived by in vitro fertilization.

Anchor’s killer convicted...

A man who told police he had been hoping to steal a laptop was convicted of capital murder Wednesday in the beating of an Arkansas TV anchorwoman so brutal that her face was shattered and she never regained consciousness.

The panel was to reconvene later Wednesday to weigh whether Curtis Lavelle Vance should be executed or sentenced to life in prison without parole for the Oct. 20, 2008, attack on Anne Pressly at her Little Rock bungalow.

Vance, 29, of Marianna, was also convicted of residential burglary along with rape and theft of property.

After the verdicts were read, Pressly’s mother, PattiCannady, raised a hand and said, “Praise God. Praise God.” She burst into sobs.

Once the jurors had left, Vance gestured toward the empty jury box, pointed to his eyes and ears and shook his head.

Pressly, 26, was an anchor at KATV and had a bit part in the President Bush biopic “W”.

Dobbs calls it quits...

CNN host Lou Dobbs shocked his viewers Wednesday when he announced that he would be leaving the network effective immediately.

The longtime host of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” said on his show that it would be his last and that he was ready “to pursue new opportunities.”

He said CNN had allowed him to be released from his contact, which was set for the end of 2011 and that he was considering a number of options.

“I will let you know when I set my course,” he said.

The longest-running anchor on CNN’s air, Dobbs was one of the nation’s leading financial journalists before turning his program in a more opinionated direction. His persistent advocacy against illegal immigration angered many.

“I’m the last of the original anchors here on CNN and I’m proud to have had the privilege to helping to build the world’s first news network.” CNN’s average prime-time audience was third behind Fox and MSNBC during October, and it was even eclipsed by sister network HLN among younger viewers, according to the Nielsen Co.