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LITTLE ROCK — Jack Ingram better be in a chatty mood come Tuesday. The country singer will try to break the world record for most radio interviews in 24 hours as part of a promotional blitz for his new album, Big Dreams & High Hopes. Communications gurus TJ Walker and Jess Todtfeld hold the current record after speaking to 96 different radio stations in 24 hours last June, said Guinness World Records spokesman Jamie Panas. The previous record was 72 by Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump of the rock group Fall Out Boy. Ingram is shooting for 225 interviews in 24 hours starting 8 a.m. Tuesday. "When I first went to No. 1 with 'Wherever You Are,' I spent a week on the phone every morning for four or five hours at a time talking to radio stations," Ingram said recently. "It's a fantastic way to travel the country without going anywhere." It's also a good way to spread the wordabout his ninth studio album, whose first single, "Barefoot and Crazy," is No. 11 on the Billboard country chart. The 38-year-old Houston native certainly has the persistence to shatter the record. He knocked around Texas and Nashville for years before finding mainstream success in 2005. In his sprint for the world record, Ingram will concentrate on country radio stations. He'll discuss his music, his life on the road and just about anything else anyone wants to talk about in a succession of brief interviews. And if he starts running out of steam? "Caffeine is probably going to be my friend," he said.

One Tree Hill actor Antwon Tanner has pleaded guilty to selling more than a dozen Social Security numbers for $10,000. Tanner told a federal judgein Brooklyn on Friday that he was a middleman, selling numbers someone else provided. He and his lawyer didn't comment on how he got involved in the scheme. Tanner is expected to get as much as a year in prison at his sentencing, set for Nov. 20. The 34-year-old actor was charged in April with selling 16 Social Security numbers and three bogus Social Security cards. Tanner plays the character Skills in the CW series. Representatives for the network didn't immediately return a telephone call Saturday. Tanner also appeared in the 2005 movie Coach Carter, starring Samuel L. Jackson.