D.A. DROPS JACKO CHARGES, FOR NOW

Michael Jackson won't be charged with child molestation, but that doesn't necessarily mean pop music's best-known newlywed can sleep easy. Los Angeles County district attorney Gil Garcetti today said prosecutors dropped the charges after a yearlong investigation because the boy who claims Jackson had sex with him won't testify. (The child, now 14, reportedly received millions in an out-of-court settlement.) But Garcetti and Santa Barbara County prosecutors said they could still press their case if the alleged victim -- or two others who clammed up -- changed his mind before the statute of limitations runs out in 1999.