NEW YORK (AP) -- Rapper Busta Rhymes has been arrested and charged with assault, police said Sunday.

Few details about the arrest and the attack that prompted it were immediately available, although police Officer Martin Speechley said they occurred about a week apart.

Representatives of the rapper, whose legal name is Trevor Smith, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Messages left for Violator Management and for a lawyer who once represented Rhymes were not immediately returned.

Police have been wanting to interview Rhymes since the February shooting death of one of his bodyguards, Israel Ramirez.

Ramirez, 29, was killed outside a Brooklyn studio where Rhymes was recording a music video.

The rapper and another bodyguard were sued the following month by a fan who says the two men beat him after he asked for the Rhymes' autograph.

Grim search for bodies enters second day

DREXEL, Missouri (AP) -- Officers were being briefed Sunday in the search for human remains in a rural Missouri yard, a day after authorities announced that bone fragments from at least two people were found there.

Karr begins journey to U.S.

BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- The suspect in the 1996 death of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey left his Bangkok jail cell Sunday for a flight back to the United States, where he is to be questioned by investigators.

Polygamists' children rally for their families

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- Calling their lives blessed, more than a dozen young women and girls from polygamist families in Utah spoke at a rally Saturday, calling for a change in state laws and the right to live their life and religion.

Remains of up to 6 people found in yard

DREXEL, Missouri (AP) -- The remains of at least two people were found in a rural Missouri yard, where the bodies of as many as six people might have been dumped, sheriff's officials said Saturday.

Army burning mustard gas at depot

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- The Army has begun draining and incinerating thousands of containers of mustard gas held in storage at a facility in the Utah desert.