NBC Nabs Legal Reporter From Brooklyn DA's Office   

Don't think you're being clever when you ask NBC News correspondent Star Jones if she's "always been a Star." Sheuses that line herself.
"People tease me about being a prima donna [becauseof my name], but I'm about as regular a person as you're going to find,"says the 30-year-old Jones, who until a few months ago was an assistantD.A. in Brooklyn and a Court TV commentator. Her appearances as a guestexpert on the "Today" show during the William Kennedy Smith trialso impressed NBC News President Michael Gartner that she was hiredto report on legal matters for "Nightly News," "A Closer Look" and "Today."

Speaking from Los Angeles, where she was coveringthe Rodney King beating case, Jones says that while journalism is"not all Cinderella," prosecuting homicide cases was more difficult. "NothingNBC can throw at me will beat having two lives in your hands – the life lostand the life on trial," she says. "I'm very proud that I could go to sleepevery night as a prosecutor knowing I'd done the right thing. That hasn'tchanged now that I'm a journalist."