LOS ANGELES (AP) — A corporate lawyer for AEG Live LLC says the concert giant did not perform any background check on Michael Jackson‘s personal physician.

Lawyer Shawn Trell also testified on Tuesday that the company did not perform such screening on any independent contractors who worked with Jackson on his ill-fated “This Is It” tour.

Trell also said AEG did not supervise or monitor former doctor Conrad Murray‘s care of Jackson, who died in June 2009 of an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.

Murray was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter for administering the fatal dose to Jackson.

Jackson’s mother Katherine is suing AEG claiming it failed to properly investigate Murray before agreeing to pay him $150,000 to work as the singer’s tour physician.

AEG denies it hired Murray or bears responsibility for Jackson’s death.

LONDON (AP) — A first edition copy of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” that contains author J.K. Rowling‘s notes and original illustrations has sold for 150,000 pounds ($228,000) at a London auction.

Sotheby’s said the work, offered as part of a charity book sale jointly organized with the writer’s association English PEN, was sold to an anonymous bidder by telephone late Tuesday.

Rowling peppered the book with about two dozen illustrations and many personal annotations, including editorial decisions and a note on how she came to create the game of Quidditch.

Other participating authors in the charity sale included Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Seamus Heaney, Lionel Shriver and Yann Martel.

The funds raised will benefit English PEN, which promotes the freedom to read and write.

NEW YORK (AP) — Two charter airplanes carrying the “Today” show anchor team and their crew from Hawaii to Yellowstone National Park were diverted in the air to Oklahoma for coverage Tuesday of the catastrophic tornado outside of Oklahoma City.

Television networks rushed their big names to the scene, including anchors Brian Williams of NBC‘s “Nightly News” and Scott Pelley of the “CBS Evening News.” Both broadcasts were expanded on Tuesday to cover the story, as was ABC’s “World News,” with Diane Sawyer remaining in New York.

Similarly, Shepard Smith of Fox News Channel, Anderson Cooper of CNN and Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC led cable news teams on the story. MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” broadcast from Moore, Okla.

For “Today,” in the unaccustomed position of fighting back from the No. 2 spot against ABC’s “Good Morning America,” it marked the third time in recent months that news disrupted special broadcast plans. Savannah Guthrie’s interview with President Barack Obama was virtually forgotten because it happened only hours before the Boston Marathon explosion. And Matt Lauer was poorly positioned in Texas on the day Boston was shut down for the marathon suspect manhunt.

The Oklahoma tornado came in the midst of the NBC show’s “Great American Adventure” road trip, which had the team scheduled to visit five places in five days. They made one, Monday on the beach at Waikiki, and were headed to Yellowstone when executive producer Don Nash was reached in the air and told about the tornado.

“A lot of time and effort went into the Yellowstone visit,” he said. “But, ultimately, we are first and foremost a news program and this was a big news story. In the end, it was an easy choice.”

The planes with Lauer, Guthrie, Natalie Morales, Al Roker and Willie Geist were instead sent further east.

It’s likely that the third visit of the week, to Chicago, will also be cancelled, Nash said. He’s playing it by ear for Thursday’s trip to Orlando, Fla., but said “Today” is determined to keep Friday’s plans to check on recovery progress from Superstorm Sandy at the New Jersey shore as the summer beach season begins.

“It’s the right show to do on a week like this,” Nash said.

While “Good Morning America” did not send its hosts to Oklahoma, weather reporter Sam Champion was well-positioned. He had traveled to Kansas on Sunday to be in place when there were forecasts of severe weather.

“CBS This Morning” co-host Norah O’Donnell traveled to Oklahoma to anchor that network’s extended coverage Tuesday morning.

NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN says that it is cutting its workforce.

The sports media giant said in a statement Tuesday: “We are implementing changes across the company to enhance our continued growth while smartly managing costs.” The company would not say how many jobs are being eliminated, but they include unfilled positions.

ESPN has about 7,000 employees worldwide, with about 4,000 at its headquarters in Bristol, Conn. The vast majority work behind the scenes.

This is the latest in a series of recent job cuts at several Disney divisions. ESPN specifically has seen costs increase with skyrocketing prices for the broadcasting rights to live sports.

DUNWOODY, Ga. (AP) — Police in suburban Atlanta say rapper Chief Keef, whose name is Keith Cozart, has been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.

Dunwoody police spokesman Timothy Fecht says officers arrested Cozart after responding to a call about illegal drug activity at the Le Méridien hotel just north of Atlanta Monday afternoon. Fecht says officers saw smoke and smelled marijuana wafting from a room.

It wasn’t immediately clear what Cozart was doing in Georgia. Representatives at his booking agency said they didn’t have contact info for an attorney for the 17-year-old Chicago native and didn’t know much about the incident.

Cozart was arrested in January and spent about two months in juvenile detention for violating probation on a weapons conviction. He had received probation for pointing a gun at police in 2012.