INJURED: Cindy Crawford's car smashed into a concrete mailbox Sunday when her husband swerved to avoid a horse in the road near their Malibu home. Though Crawford's injuries were minor, she got small bits of glass in her eyes when her passenger window shattered....

TOURING: Bruce Springsteen has announced that he'll tour with the E Street Band in 1999. Aside from the three new cuts he recorded with the band for his 1995 "Greatest Hits" CD and his select TV spots to promote the album, Springsteen hasn't played live with the band since 1988, in Amnesty's "Human Rights Now!" tour....

WINNERS: R&B upstart Usher was named Artist of the Year at last night's Billboard Music Awards. Garth Brooks, Everclear, Shania Twain, and Backstreet Boys also went home with trophies, which are awarded on the basis of album sales and radio airplay....

INTERVIEWING: ABC is reportedly talking to CNN "Showbiz Today" host Jim Moret about replacing Kevin Newman on the struggling "Good Morning America." (Insiders say that other candidates for the job include NBC's weekend "Today" show host Jack Ford.) Moret still has at least another year left on his CNN contract, so any offer would involve deep negotiations....

LAWSUIT: Last Friday supermodel Naomi Campbell, 28, voluntarily surrendered to Toronto police after her former assistant Georgina Galanis filed assault charges. Galanis claims that she was "willfully, wantonly, maliciously, recklessly and negligently battered" by the runway diva during the week or so that they worked together. Galanis says that Campbell struck her in the head with a telephone twice, punched her in the shoulder twice, grabbed her by the neck, slammed her into a wall, and threatened to throw her from a moving vehicle. According to Campbell's spokesperson Marcia Horowitz, Campbell -- who spent about an hour at the police station -- "intends to vigorously defend the charges, which were based on claims made by a disgruntled former employee who was terminated for unsatisfactory performance"....

OFF THE AIR: After six seasons, "Saved By the Bell: The New Class" will stop production, and TV will lose Screech, who has been played by nerd thespian Dustin Diamond since the original show began in 1989. The "Bell" may continue to ring, however. The show's creator Peter Engel is planning a new spin-off for mid-1999, and he's writing a stage musical based on the first cast. "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Gym Class," perhaps?