The Cherry Blossom Festival, a program of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce, is the one of the longest continuously running ethnic festivals in Hawai'i.

To learn more, visit www.cbfhawaii.com.

B.B. KING BUYS HOMETOWN CLUB

INDIANOLA, Miss. — B.B. King is the new owner of a juke joint in his Mississippi Delta hometown.

Mary Shepard has owned Club Ebony in Indianola for the past three decades. King and other artists have played there throughout the years.

A Mississippi Delta Blues Trail Marker outside Club Ebony says Count Basie, Ray Charles, James Brown and Ike Turner are among the musicians who have played there since 1945.

Shepard says she sold the club to the bluesman because she wants to relax and spend time with her family.

Indianola is about halfway between Jackson and Memphis, Tenn.

SINGER CRITICALLY INJURED IN CRASH

HOUSTON — Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira was critically injured yesterday when his band's bus crashed on a highway in the metro area, city and hospital officials said.

Navaira and his band, Rio, had performed at a Houston nightclub on Saturday night. At about 5 a.m. yesterday, the band's bus slammed into traffic barrels on Interstate 610 northbound in Bellaire, a well-to-do enclave within the city west of downtown Houston, Bellaire police Sgt. Daniel Kerr said.

Navaira, 45, was one of eight passengers on the bus who were injured, said Houston Assistant Fire Chief Omero Longoria. Navaira was listed in critical condition at Memorial Hermann Hospital.

'HORTON' NO. 1 2 WEEKS IN A ROW

HOLLYWOOD — "Horton" sat atop the box office again on Easter weekend, holding off openings of Tyler Perry's "Meet the Browns" and "Drillbit Taylor" to remain in the No. 1 spot, grossing an estimated $25.1 million.

The animated retelling of a Dr. Seuss story about a conscientious elephant has made $86 million in two weeks. It's the first movie of the year to hang onto the top spot two weekends in a row.

Fox Searchlight's horror film "Shutter," came in third at the box office, grossing $10.7 million, closely followed by Paramount's Owen Wilson movie, "Drillbit Taylor," which took in $10.2 million. The Warner Bros. film "10,000 B.C." slipped to No. 5 in its third week in theaters. It has made $76.1 million so far.