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'Big Brother' winner Adam Jasinski gets 4 years

Big Brother 9’s winner Adam Jasinski has been sentenced to 4 years in prison on drug and tax charges stemming from his arrest in a sting operation in 2009, according to multiple online published reports.

Lindsay Lohan released early from rehab; after just 22 days

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan is finally out of rehab. She was released Tuesday from her court-ordered rehabilitation at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Los Angeles, after 22 days of treatment.

Sex crazed male nurse gets life imprisonment for wife's murder

A sex-obsessed male nurse who strangled his wife and then staged a car crash to make it look as if she had died in an accident has been sentenced to imprisonment for life, according to several British tabloid reports.

Lindsay Lohan gets 90 days for violation of probation

Even a tearful plea couldn’t earn Lindsay Lohan independence, and a judge sent her to jail for probation violation. LiLo was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in jail after the judge ruled she violated probation in a 2007 drug case by failing to attend court-ordered alcohol education classes, according to several US reports.

Jailbird Lil Wayne gets banned from signing autographs in prison

Jailbird Lil Wayne has been barred from signing any autographs for his inmate fans in jail. Perhaps one of the greatest rappers alive, Wayne currently is serving his time in New York’s Rikers Island prison on weapons charges.

Lil Wayne temporarily avoids jail time, thanks to his teeth

Los Angeles, February 10 -- Hip-hop star Lil Wayne, who was supposed to be sentenced Tuesday on a gun charge, has won himself temporary reprieve from prison, thanks to his bad teeth.

Polanski's request to be sentenced in "absentia" denied

Los Angeles, January 22 -- Film director Roman Polanski must return to California to be sentenced after a Los Angeles judge on Friday rejected the fugitive filmmaker’s request to be sentenced in his absence.

Serial name changer sentenced in check scam

Tacoma, Wash. -- A federal judge Friday handed a 27-month prison term to a Tacoma, Wash., man who legally changed his name a dozen times as part of a bank fraud scheme.

Leon Anderson, 33, took part in a scam in which he wrote himself rubber checks from bank accounts he had opened under previous names and then deposited in new accounts bearing his new identity.

"This is a very serious offense," U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton said during the sentencing hearing in Tacoma. "You were persistent in it for a long time."

The U.S. Attorney's office in Seattle said in a written statement that Anderson defrauded various banks and merchants out of about $100,000 over the course of the scam, which included 12 name changes between 2000 and 2008.

No mercy for Dominic Carter; Jailed for beating wife

Los Angeles, January 15 -- Dominic Carter, a former cable TV newsman, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for beating his wife. The suspended political news reporter was led away in handcuffs on Thursday and he immediately began his one-month incarceration in the Rockland County Jail.

Farrah Fawcett's troubled son back behind bars

Los Angeles, January 6 -- Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett's troubled son Redmond O'Neal is back behind bars. A Superior Court Judge ordered Redmond back in jail Tuesday, after finding that that he had committed a drug-related probation violation.

Rapper T.I. released from prison, moved to halfway house

Los Angeles, December 23 -- Rapper T.I. has been released from a federal prison in Arkansas and ordered to serve the remainder of his sentence at a half-way house in Georgia, according to multiple tabloid reports.

Chris Brown's 'Changed Man' made Rihanna cry

Los Angeles, December 5 -- Chris Brown once again apologized publicly for his brutal assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna in February of this year. The R&B singer appeared on ABC News 20/20 to tell the world he never ever had problems with anger.