NEWS LITE : AMY CARTER GIVES BIRTH TO BABY BOY.

Amy Carter has given birth to a baby boy, the 10th grandchild of former President Jimmy Carter, 74, and his wife, Rosalynn.

Hugo James Wentzel was born Thursday about 9 p.m., weighing 7 pounds 13 ounces and measuring 20 inches.

Both mother and child were doing fine, Carrie Harmon, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center, said Friday.

Carter, 31, and her husband of three years, James Wentzel, live in Atlanta near the Carter Center, where she was elected to the board of councilors in March 1998.

Classical jazz will be aired in Greece

American soprano Jessye Norman will perform at an ancient Greek theater in September despite concerns from archeologists.

Culture Minister Elisavet Papazoi on Friday allocated the open-air Epidauros theater, about 35 miles southwest of Athens, to the singer for a performance commemorating the centennial of jazz great Duke Ellington's birth.

An advisory board had recommended that Norman appear at a smaller theater next to Epidauros, where performances are limited so the ancient site is protected.

Busta Rhymes sued for child support

Trevor George Smith, better known as rap star Busta Rhymes, has been sued by a woman who claims he is the father of her child.

Jill Miskelly, 25, filed the paternity suit earlier this month.

She claims the child, Mariah Elizabeth Miskelly, is Smith's, the result of a night they spent together in January 1998.

A paternity test showed that the chances are 99.99 percent that Smith is Mariah's father.

In January, Smith started voluntarily making child support payments of $1,250 a month, but Miskelly's attorney said that was not enough.

North Carolina law typically calls for child support to be set in proportion to a parent's income.

Lawsuit dropped by former Prince

The Artist formerly known as Prince has dropped his lawsuit against Uptown magazine.

Lawyers say the nonprofit publication written and produced by fans has agreed that, among other things, it will no longer publish ``discographies'' of bootlegs of The Artist's recordings.

The Chanhassen, Minn.-based musician also wants Uptown to stop using the unpronounceable symbol he adopted in 1993 in place of his name. Uptown officials said they had been using the symbol ``out of respect.''

Cornish patriots defend delicacy

When an American food critic derided the Cornish pasty as more suitable as a doorstop than a delicacy, he sparked what is turning into a national movement to defend the small savory pie.

One baker in Cornwall, England burned an American flag to protest William Grimes' recent New York Times column, which asserted that the region in southwest England offers ``more bad food per square mile than anywhere else in the civilized world.''

And one of Britain's biggest pasty makers, Ginsters, is launching a national advertising campaign to defend the traditional Cornish treat, a small pie (pronounced PAHS-tee) that contains potato, beef and vegetables.

``In urgent meetings with our advertising agency over the last 24 hours, we even discussed the possibility of placing a poster outside Mr. Grimes' office in New York,'' said Peter Judge, Ginsters' sales and marketing director. ``We hope he will eat his words.''

But Grimes said Friday that he stands by his July 21 column.

During two one-week trips to Cornwall, he said he tried dozens of pasties - none of which lived up to the hype.

``I understand it's dear to their hearts, but they need to make a better pasty,'' said Grimes, who describes the pasties he ate as ``awful, bland, football-shaped objects that were nearly inedible.''

KEEP OFF: Dog helps with goosey problem

Hundreds of geese that had the run of Central Park in Fremont, Calif. have finally been corralled by a dog freed from the pound to keep them in the pond.

Luke dons a vest every day and chases the Canadian geese into the water but never hurts them, said Judy Felber, the park's supervising ranger.

Felber said she rescued Luke from the pound in August and immediately put him to work. The dog is a McNab, a Northern California breed that is a cross between a border collie and a Scottish collie.

``We had tried everything to get rid of the geese,'' she said Friday. ``People heard of our problem and sent us ideas from all over the nation. We even tried dead decoys to scare them off.''

As many as 1,600 unruly Canada geese monopolized the 450-acre park in the summer, making a dirty mess and gobbling grass down to the mud.

Luke is cutting down on the number of geese that linger after the big summer visit, according to Felber.

``He makes them leave earlier,'' she said. ``We only had 78 last week.''

Some geese have gotten so used to the routine that they jump in the lake when Felber merely whistles, her normal signal for Luke to do his job.

``The whistle makes them do it even when he's not with me,'' she said.

Luke was trained by dogs used to handle cattle, she said.

``The dogs did such a good job their owners now run a company called Goose Busters,'' she said. The dogs are used at golf courses and other places that attract birds.

News Lite is compiled by Tim Epperson from Daily News staff and wire reports.

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PHOTO (1) Amy Carter and her husband, Jim Wentzel, are proud parents.

Charles Plant/Associated Press

(2) A trained sheepherding dog keeps geese off the grass at Fremont, Calif.'s Lake Elizabeth.

Aric Crabb/The Fremont Argus