This report in the Parkersburg (W. Va.) News & Sentinel is pretty confusing, but it appears that a story published in "an alternative newspaper from Columbus, Ohio" caused Kevin Radcliff ("also known as Amanda Love") and Steven Lantz to engage in fisticuffs inside Radcliff's Club Utopia. Radcliff was acquitted of battery, says the paper.

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The details of the out-of-court settlement are confidential, but it does include the terms on which Sutcliffe Associates' SelectAlternatives program will license Tele-Publishing Inc.'s patents and other intellectual property, the two companies announced yesterday. TPI and SA are both AAN Associate Members and both will continue to provide personal advertising technology to newspapers. "The settlement provides publishers with some choices going forward," says TPI President David Dinnage. "We feel that this is a win for all parties involved."

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