Backstreet Boys cancel show for first time

SHAKOPEE, Minn. (AP) -- The Backstreet Boys canceled a concert in this Minneapolis suburb at the last minute when the sister of one of the band members died.

About 19,000 fans were waiting for the group to take the stage as the last of eight bands during Sunday's Last Chance Summer Dance. But then the band got word that Howie Dorough's 25-year-old sister died Saturday of lupus in North Carolina.

The group planned to perform as a quartet, but one member was already stranded in Florida, in part because of the recently ended Northwest Airlines strike, singer Kevin Richardson said.

"In six years of touring, we've never canceled a show. We're sorry," Richardson said. "It's important for us to make it up."