Hunter S. Thompson died on Sunday, alone with a gun in his kitchen in Woody Creek, Colo. In doing so, he added heft to a legend that came to obscure his gifts as one of journalism's most influential practitioners.

The New Jersey state attorney gene has filed a lawsuit against Blockbuster charging that the rental chain's "End of Late Fees" advertising campaign is "fraudulent and deceptive."

In a lengthy article titled "Hard News: Daily Papers Face Unprecedented Competition," Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post on Sunday sketched an exceedingly unpleasant future for the print newspaper as we know it. Or as he said in his lead: "The venerable newspaper is in trouble."

Yesterday, an Omaha, Nebraska man, web-page designer Andrew Fischer, 20, auctioned off his forehead for $37,375 to be used as advertising space for one month by the anti-snoring remedy SnoreStop. "I look forward to an enjoyable association with Andrew - a man who clearly has a head for business in every sense of the word," SnoreStop CEO Christian de Rivel said.

PEARLAND, Tex. - Here in the Houston suburbs, Banana-Vision has arrived. That's the industry nickname for the 42-inch high-definition L.C.D. monitor installed directly over a pyramid of bright yellow bananas in the produce section of the local Wal-Mart store.

Even as many marketers are trying to entrance consumers with longer commercials on television, advertisers on the in-store network at Wal-Mart are honing the sale of products in 10-second spots.

Hunter S. Thompson, the maverick journalist and author whose savage chronicling of the underbelly of American life and politics embodied a new kind of nonfiction writing he called "gonzo journalism," died yesterday in Colorado. Tricia Louthis, of the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office, said Mr. Thompson had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., yesterday afternoon. He was 65.

In the ongoing culture wars over whether gays should have the right to marry, an animated question reared its head on Sunday prime-time television: as goes "The Simpsons," does the nation go, too?

Actor John Travolta's direct involvement enabled MGM and General Motors Corp. to put together a major Cadillac product-placement deal for the new film Be Cool in record time, according to participants.

For the first time in its history, CNN's Headline News is tinkering with its all-news format.