THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The NCAA Final Four saw a decline in ratings across TNT, TBS and TruTV with overall March Madness ratings down 12% from last year. The North Carolina-Syracuse matchup averaged 12.9 million viewers, down 43%, while the Villanova-Oklahoma game was also down 31% with 10.5 million viewers.
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• Alaska Airlines has bought Virgin Airlines.
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• K$esha says that she was offered an out from her record contact if she retracted her claim that she was raped by her former producer.
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• Game of Thrones stars Kit Harrington and Rose Leslie are actually an item away from the cameras.
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• Rhode Island's top marketing official has resigned after making a promotional video for the state using pictures from Iceland.
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• "Duck Dynasty" star Willie Robertson is joining Fox News as a contributor.
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• A company called Chubb Limited Insurance is going to offer cyberbullying coverage in the U.S.
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• Martin Sheen is producing and narrating a documentary professing the innocence of O.J. Simpson.
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• The Philadelphia 76ers are on track to tie the all-time NBA worst regular season record ever at 9-73 -- a record already held by the 76ers.
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• Caitlyn Jenner is going to join the cast of the Amazon TV series, "Transparent."
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• Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, celebrated her 18th birthday on Sunday with her new boyfriend. By hitting 18, she now receives $8 million a year from the Michael Jackson estate. That figure gets a bump when she's 33 and then again, when she hits 40.
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• With her ex Blake Shelton in the house, Miranda Lambert brought her new boyfriend to the ACM's on Sunday night. A guy by the name of Anderson East.
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• Iggy Azalea is being slapped with a fine from the IRS, for allegedly not paying $391,000 in taxes back in 2014.
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• U.S. women's soccer star Abby Wambach picked up a DUI arrest in Portland over the weekend.
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• When you try to sneak in a text or use your cell phone without a bluetooth connection, they say it ups the chance of being in an accident by 23%.
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• Avril Lavigne and estranged husband Chad Kroeger walked the red carpet together at the Juno Awards over the weekend, Canada's version of the Grammy's.
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• You're going to be hearing more and more about "The Panama Papers," which allegedly put a spotlight on billions of dollars being hidden offshore, by world leaders and the famous.
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• There's talk of killing the $100 bill, because it's mostly used in criminal activity. Agree?