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CHICAGO (AP) -- Nationally syndicated Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene resigned after acknowledging he engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a teenage girl, the newspaper said Sunday.

In a note on the paper's front page, editor Ann Marie Lipinski said Greene acknowledged the sexual conduct with a girl in her late teens whom he met in connection with his column.

Greene, 55, has written extensively on social issues and American life in columns syndicated for newspapers around the country.. He also has written several books and provided commentary on Tribune-owned WGN TV.

Billy Joel to look for love in town

NEW YORK (AP) -- Billy Joel says he's looking for someone to spend his life with, and plans to rent an apartment in Manhattan to meet women.

"I'm not going to meet anyone out here," said Joel, who lives in East Hampton, a posh community in nearby Long Island. "In my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets."