SOUL SINGER KEEPS ON TURNIN' - OUT OF PRISON, BACK TO L.A.

Soul singer Ike Turner is free after more than 17 months behind bars on cocaine charges. Turner, 59, was released Tuesday and planned to return to Los Angeles, said Larry Kamien, associate warden at the California Men's Colony West Facility in San Luis Obispo. Turner had pleaded guilty to cocaine charges and received a four-year sentence but received time off for good behavior. Turner and his former wife, Tina Turner, sang such hits as "Proud Mary" and "River Deep, Mountain High" before divorcing in 1976. Turner admitted in 1986 he had been addicted to cocaine for 15 years.