Plea deal on the way for Chris Brown

Prosecutors in Washington plan to offer Grammy-winning R&B singer Chris Brown a plea bargain on an assault charge arising from an altercation outside a hotel in the nation’s capital, a U.S. attorney said yesterday.

Brown, 24, pleaded not guilty on Oct. 28 to misdemeanor assault stemming from an incident outside a Washington hotel. At the time, he was serving five years of probation under a 2009 sentence for assaulting Rihanna, who was his girlfriend at the time.