Award-winning entertainer, businesswoman and education advocate Dolly Parton has a new title.

"Just think, I am Dr. Dolly!" she said yesterday after receiving an honorary doctorate of humane and musical letters from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

The audience of 1,069 new graduates gave the Tennessee native a standing ovation.

Parton is known for philanthropy, and her Imagination Library sends a book to about 500,000 children each month from birth until they start school.

SNOOP DOGG CLEARED OF ONSTAGE ASSAULT

A civil jury in Santa Monica, Calif., says Snoop Dogg didn't hit a man who came up on stage during a 2005 concert near Seattle.

The rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, wasn't in court yesterday when the jury cleared him of civil assault and battery claims. The jury did find that Richard Monroe Jr. suffered serious injuries during the concert and awarded him $449,400 in damages to be paid by a record label, another performer and others involved in the concert. Monroe had sought $22 million.

WOLVERINE WILL BE AT MEXICO PREMIERE

Hugh Jackman is off to Mexico.

Film distributor 20th Century Fox says the actor will help launch "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" in Mexico City on May 26. Jackman's scheduled appearance there last week was canceled when swine flu concerns closed down theaters. Movie theaters across Mexico reopened Thursday.

MISS CALIFORNIA'S FATE TO BE SETTLED SOON

A co-director of the Miss California USA pageant says the fate of title holder Carrie Prejean will be decided by Monday. Keith Lewis said yesterday that talks with Prejean's representatives are close to a resolution over whether the 21-year-old violated her contract by making unauthorized public appearances for groups opposed to same-sex marriage and by failing to reveal she had posed for photos in her underwear as a teen.

50 CENT NOT YET CLEARED IN MANSION FIRE

Investigators said no one has been cleared in a fire that destroyed 50 Cent's Long Island mansion, despite the rapper's claim on his Web site, Thisis50.com, that he has been told he isn't suspected. County police detective Thomas Wieland noted, "That fire is still under investigation. It hasn't been closed either way."

The rapper was in Louisiana filming a movie at the time, but his ex-girlfriend accused him of being behind the May 30 fire at his $1.4 million mansion, where she and their 10-year-old son were living. They and four others escaped the fire by jumping off a roof.