LONDON - Police say Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor who also served as the prime minister's spokesman, has been arrested in Britain's tabloid phone-hacking scandal.
London police said a 43-year-old man was arrested Friday morning over allegations of phone hacking and police bribery and was in custody at a London police station. They did not name him but offered the information when asked about Coulson.
The Murdoch media empire on Thursday shut down the 168-year-old muckraking tabloid. The paper has been engulfed by allegations its journalists paid police for information and hacked into the phone messages of celebrities, young murder victims and the grieving families of dead soldiers.
