Early this morning, one of Miley Cyrus' tour buses crashed in rural Virginia. The vehicle was carrying several members of Cyrus' production crew but not the singer herself. The driver of the bus is dead and one of the crew members was sent to the hospital.

There are all sorts of tragedies that are inherently tied to rock music (overdoses, car crashes, production accidents and the like), but there have been far too many incidents involving tour buses. It shouldn't be shocking, as they are unruly mammoths forced to push forward (usually in the middle of the night) over all manner of terrain for hours and hours at a time. They're difficult to handle and difficult for other drivers to deal with.

Last week, Canadian singer/songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk updated her MySpace blog to let fans know that her tour bus had run off the road (she blamed the incident on her driver falling asleep). Just a few months ago, Bret Michaels' tour bus was struck by another car (though no injuries were reported on either side). In August, Canadian rockers MercyMe were involved in a crash that killed two people in Indiana. Last fall, Roots' drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson sent a Twitter message from an ambulance after their bus crashed outside of Paris, France. That's five major accidents in just a year, and the list goes on and on.

Of course, the most notorious (and tragic) bus accident in rock history came in September of 1986, when original Metallica bassist Cliff Burton died when the band's bus skidded off the road and crashed in Sweden (there's even a memorial stone by the crash site). The driver was awake and alert but undone by black ice in the middle of the night.

The tour bus is typically the best and most cost-effective way for most bands to cross the country (or the continent), but there's clearly a safety issue here. Are there any solutions? It's hard to tell, but something needs to be done.

Every day a multitude of stars wanders through the halls of MTV News to talk about their latest projects and goof around with our intrepid correspondents. But sometimes we catch stars elsewhere, and that's why we put together Spotted!, a daily compendium of stars in the wild.

On Saturday night (October 24), the Ultimate Fighting Championship returned to Los Angeles' Staples Center for the first time since 2006 for UFC 104, a pay-per-view event headlined by Lyoto "The Dragon" Machida and Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in a match for Machida's light heavyweight championship. (The champion retained in a unanimous decision despite the fact that Rua did far more damage and was the aggressor for most of the fight. It was one of the greatest robberies in UFC history.) Because UFC often attracts celebrities and because the show was in Los Angeles, there were a number of famous attendees at Saturday night's show. Fight enthusiast Ashton Kutcher was there with wife Demi Moore, and "Entourage" star Jeremy Piven was in attendance as well. Also spotted in the crowd? Janet Jackson, whose late brother Michael was also a UFC supporter (he was sometimes spotted at shows in Las Vegas). And sitting behind Jackson was fellow musician and grappling fan Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas.

Jackson and Will.I.Am weren't the only stars out in Los Angeles over the weekend. Katy Perry celebrated her birthday with boyfriend Russell Brand at a costume party in West Hollywood on Saturday night, while Sunday saw Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato visit the Nokia Theater for Disney's annual Concert for Hope. Click here for these photos as well as the rest of the "Spotted!" archive, which includes over 300 candid shots of Britney Spears, Madonna, Beyoncé, Drake, Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, the Jonas Brothers, Adam Lambert and Tokio Hotel!

On the massive timeline that is the universe, five days doesn't seem like an awfully long time, but consider how different the world was on Monday morning: Soupy Sales was alive, Lil Wayne was a free man, people were still wondering what Rihanna's new single would sound like and the content of "Michael Jackson's This Is It" was still relatively mysterious. But now that we're five days older and that much wiser, it's time to take a look back at anything you might have missed in the Newsroom.

» Rihanna unveiled her new single "Russian Roulette," which also came with an edgy album cover that immediately put it in rare company.

» Adam Lambert also had a busy week of debuts, as his made its way to the Web, along with the epic video for that same song.

» Drake added "college basketball coach" to his ever-growing list of occupations.

» Whitney Houston performed on TV in the U.K., busted out of her dress and still managed to absolutely kill "Million Dollar Bill."
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Every day a multitude of stars wanders through the halls of MTV News to talk about their latest projects and goof around with our intrepid correspondents. But sometimes we catch stars elsewhere, and that's why we put together Spotted!, a daily compendium of stars in the wild.

Having divorced herself from her Twitter account, Miley Cyrus clearly has more time to work on proper business. Case in point: The 17-year-old singer appeared in New York over the weekend to work on "Sex and the City 2," the sequel to the hit 2008 film that was based on the classic HBO show of the same name. Cyrus plays herself in the movie, and the scene she appears in takes place at a red carpet premiere where she has a run-in with Kim Cattrall's Samantha. Why do they go head-to-head? It turns out they're wearing the exact same dress. Hilarity is bound to ensue. "Sex and the City 2" promises to be a delightful passing of the torch from one diva to another.

Cyrus wasn't the only one hitting a red carpet in New York (though hers was fictional). Mary J. Blige took a trip to Cipriani in Manhattan on Saturday night (October 17) to help celebrate Ne-Yo's birthday, while Cyndi Lauper and Sharon Osbourne both hit the streets to film the latest season of the Donald Trump reality show "The Celebrity Apprentice." Click here for these photos plus the entire "Spotted!" archive, which includes over 300 candid shots of Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, the Jonas Brothers, Justin Bieber and Adam Lambert!

The Newsroom is clearing out for the weekend, and if you're like us, you're either headed to a screening of "Where the Wild Things Are," dinner at your favorite Mexican restaurant or drinks at the local tavern. But before you let yourself get mesmerized by Spike Jonze or order another quesadilla, check out everything you might have missed this week in the Newsroom. There were plenty of birthdays, big interviews and bucks hunted — something for everybody!

» There are still a few more days before "Michael Jackson's This Is It" opens, but the new song "This Is It" has already been unleashed. Though Paul Anka had some qualms, it seems like the public approved.

» The wrestling and music worlds lost a crossover icon this week, as Captain Lou Albano passed away. He'll be remembered for his great promos, his nose for television and his strange group of friends, including Hulk Hogan and Andy Warhol.

» I apologized to Miley Cyrus for driving her away from Twitter, but it didn't change her mind. Bummer.

» The soundtrack to "New Moon" is out in stores right now, so be sure to stay caught up with some great videos from the artists on the album.

» Jim Cantiello weighed in on Adam Lambert's new song "Time for Miracles," calling the "American Idol" runner-up's voice "brizzonculent" (whatever that means).
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"I think she's smart enough to realize there is some interference of the brain that she doesn't want to deal with. Artists have enough to deal with. She's a child, she's a fantastic artist — I think there's enough mental real estate being taken up by dealing with all of that stuff. For whatever reason, I am old enough and smart enough to tell someone to go f--- themselves if they tell me to go f--- myself. I think if you're in Miley's situation, it might take a little too much time to play goalie for your own heart and mind. So I totally get it."

-Twitter enthusiast John Mayer, commenting on Miley Cyrus' decision to delete her account on the microblogging service, which caused quite a media stir last week. Mayer sat down with MTV News' Tim Kash to talk about his new album Battle Studies, the just-premiered video for its first single "Who Says" and a reality he calls "The Hate-rix." "I call it that because it's not really happening. It's just this fake world of people criticizing other people," he laughed. "It's a shame, but look, that's what it comes down to in America. Miley is somebody who's made a bunch of money doing something she loves. Most people do things they hate, for less money. If somebody can repurpose something that somebody loves doing for a lot of money, in order to make a little bit of that money, they're gonna do it. So nobody hates Miley Cyrus; they're just picking up on her brand, repurposing it, to try to make a little bit of Miley cash. It's damaging people's minds."

After her Twitter account mysteriously vanished last week, Miley Cyrus took to the Internet this weekend to deliver an explanation in the form of a well-choreographed rap. In the video, Cyrus raps, "I stopped livin' for moments and started living for people ... I want my private life private." basically saying that she wants to withdraw from cyberspace in order to make her personal life a little more, well, personal. But there was another line in the rap that really hit home and made me feel a little guilty. "Everything that I type and everything that I do/ All those lame gossip sites take it and they make it news." While I'd like to think that Newsroom is something more than a "lame gossip site," I can't help but wonder if I became part of the problem.

You see, a few weeks ago I wrote this tribute to Cyrus' Twitter feed after following it for weeks. As I explained in that post, what I liked best about it were the notes she wrote in between all the rehearsals, photos shoots and career-related things she narrated on her site. They were thoughts I found desperately, existentially sad. It was a helpful reminder that no matter how famous she becomes, Cyrus is still only 16 years old and has had to grow up in the most surreal circumstances possible. Unlike a lot of celebrity Twitter, which comes across as desperate self-promotion, Cyrus' feed humanized her in ways that no Barbara Walters interview or magazine article had in the past.

But now that I consider what I was really doing, I can see why Cyrus decided to bail out. Who wants an entire media complex dissecting your every word about what foods you like or what emo songs you're listening to? Her Twitter gave a fascinating sneak peek into Cyrus' inner life, but what right does anybody have to that information? (Save for the people who, you know, actually know her.)

So Miley, I'm sorry for driving you off the Internet. Just know that my intentions were good, and if you ever feel like coming back to the Twitter fold, I'll be here waiting to click "Follow" once again.

A heart-shaped cupcake and a copy of the "Raise Your Voice" DVD to Hilary Duff today, as she'll be celebrating her 22nd birthday today. Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers and whoever else is currently cashing checks on Disney crossover careers should buy Duff a shot today, as she was the guinea pig for the current crop of breakout stars currently enjoying success in the worlds of television, film and music. Duff first came to the attention of the populace as Lizzie McGuire, the feisty teen kid with an animated alter-ego (or something) on the show of the same name. Her ubiquity on what became the Disney Channel's flagship program allowed her to make the jump into movies, where she starred in hits like "A Cinderella Story" and "Agent Cody Banks." Her music career followed soon after, debuting with 2003's Metamorphosis. 2004 must have been a special year for Duff, as her second, self-titled album happened to drop on her birthday.

That album spawned the hits "Fly" and "I Am," though her biggest success remains her debut, which contained the smashes "So Yesterday," "Why Not?" and "Come Clean." The latter tune got a ton of traction by being the theme song to the MTV series "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" (where Kristin Cavallari and Lauren Conrad — the current stars of "The Hills" — first got national media attention). But "Come Clean" probably would have become a hit on its own, as it's a top-shelf mix of rock and pop sounds that absolutely predicted the rampaging success of Miley Cyrus that would come later.

It's time for another weekend, which means there must be a fresh week's worth of news and insight here in the archives of the Newsroom blog. The smoke finally cleared on the Kanye West "interruption" incident at the Video Music Awards, but plenty of other things filled the void: The premiere of "Dancing with the Stars," the emergence of the friendship between Hayley Williams and Taylor Swift, the premiere of a new Miley Cyrus video and a possible new job for Paula Abdul. This week, we also went behind the scenes with the likes of LeBron James, Paramore, Justin Bieber and Kris Allen. Check out the week's highlights below before you pack the kids in the car and drive to the lake.

» Miley Cyrus premiered the new video for her hit single "Party in the U.S.A." this week. We polled the public and asked the question: Too sexy? Not sexy enough?

» Paramore invited MTV News down to Nashville for a visit, and we even got the guided tour of frontwoman Hayley Williams' car.

» "American Idol" winner Kris Allen dodged a bunch of questions but still came across as charming.

» The "Kanye West interrupts" meme was successfully killed by the Emmy Awards.
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Despite all the fireworks on last night's episode of "Dancing with the Stars," Miley Cyrus still grabbed the biggest headlines of the night with the short preview of the "Party in the U.S.A." video. This morning, the entire clip premiered, and it features Cyrus in short shorts and cowboy boots hanging on the back of a pickup truck and singing in front of an American flag (in a scene that reminded MTV News' Jim Cantiello of the opening scene of the 1970 biopic "Patton"). The buzz surrounding the video — the first from Cyrus' new EP Time of Our Lives — was mostly about Cyrus' sexier approach to presenting herself on video.

But we never really know what the general public is thinking until we ask them, which is why we grabbed our trusty cameras, took the elevator to the lobby and headed out into Times Square to play the video for fans and get their reactions to Cyrus' latest video. Is it a winner, or is it just too much?

The painfully unscientific results are in, and it looks like "Party in the U.S.A." has people sharply divided, with 71 percent of those polled coming down on the side of "Not feeling it." Most people found the clip to be "too sexy" and several aren't buying her transition from Disney diva to actual diva. Still, a handful of people did enjoy the video's energy and thought that the added bit of sexiness was a healthy progression for Cyrus.

What do you think? Does "Party in the U.S.A." rock or should it be rejected? Leave your thoughts in the comments or head over to Your.MTV.com to make your voice heard!