
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 12, 1991                   TAG: 9104120411
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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FOR THE RECORD

The Associated Press reported erroneously in a story published Thursday that New Kids on the Block singer Donnie Wahlberg had pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from a hotel fire.

Wahlberg agreed to make public-service announcements on topics such as fire safety and drugs in return for eventual dismissal of a reduced charge of misdemeanor criminal mischief.

He did not enter a plea and a prosecutor said the charge would be dismissed when Wahlberg completed the announcements under a pretrial diversion program. The singer had been charged with arson following his arrest March 27 after a hallway fire in a Louisville, Ky., hotel, where he was staying.

by CNB