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Battling Brit Taken to Hospital

Posted Jan 4, 08 3:35 AM CST in Gossip,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Pop star Britney Spears was taken to a hospital on a stretcher early this morning after police responded to a heated custody argument with her ex-husband at her home, CNN reports. She was to be tested for drugs and alcohol and given a psychological evaluation, said officials. She appeared to be conscious as she was placed in an ambulance. Doctors will determine whether to invoke a law allowing Spears to be held for 72 hours while she is evaluated.

The troubled singer has been involved in a protracted custody battle over her two young sons with ex-hubby Kevin Federline. She missed two of three court-ordered depositions in the last few weeks, and was late to the third one yesterday. Her attorneys asked to be taken off her case earlier this week because of a "breakdown" in communication with their client.

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Photographers try to get a shot through the back window of a Los Angeles City Fire Department ambulance, believed to carrying entertainer Britney Spears, as it leaves her residence, Thursday, Jan. 3,...   (Associated Press)
Britney Spears is carried on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance from her home in Beverly Hills Ca. late Thursday night Jan. 3, 2008. Police were called to Spears' home Thursday night in a custodial dispute...   (Associated Press)
Photographers stand outside the gated residence of entertainer Britney Spears, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)   (Associated Press)
Photographers try to get a shot through the back window of a Los Angeles City Fire Department ambulance, believed to carrying entertainer Britney Spears, as it leaves her residence, Thursday, Jan. 3,...   (Associated Press)
Mark Vincent Kaplan, the attorney for Britney Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline, speaks to the media on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, in Los Angeles. Spears appeared Thursday for a deposition in her child-custody...   (Associated Press)
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