(photo: AP / Lil Wayne performs at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, in Los Angeles)
Lil Wayne to serve jail sentence without protective custody m&c | US rapper Lil Wayne won't get special treatment behind bars – and will serve his year-long jail sentence with the rest of the inmates at New York's tough Rikers Island prison, officials have revealed. | Celebrites at the Jay Z concert held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. -...
Lil Wayne sentenced to one year in jail National Post  ReutersMarch 9, 2010 12:00 AM  | After whirlwind goodbyes to fans, diminutive U.S. rapper Lil Wayne was sentenced to one year in jail yesterday after he pleaded guilty on a gun possession charge stemming from a 2007 incident. Lil Wayne, 27, whose real name is Dwayne Carter and who also goes by ...
Cindy Crawford blackmailer Edis Kayalar jailed in Germany The Daily Telegraph Australia | A MAN who extorted money from the model over a photo showing her child gagged and bound was sentenced to jail for two years. | Edis Kayalar, 26, was found guilty of one count of extortion and two counts of attempted extortion after he demanded more...
Prison officials 'ordered rapes' The Daily Telegraph Australia | RUSSIAN prosecutors have charged seven top prison officials in Saint Petersburg with carrying out a string of abuses on prisoners, including using rape as a punishment for escaping. | The seven charged include the head of operations at the Saint Pe...
Jail Term for Molesting Bar Waitress Upheld Khaleej Times DUBAI ' The Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld the six-month imprisonment given to an Afghan worker by a lower court for molesting a waitress. | The Court of Appeal also upheld the deportation order of the 24-year-old worker and the Dh1,000 fine impos...
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China jails two herders for killing snow leopard m&c | Beijing - A court in China's far western region of Xinjiang has sentenced two herdsmen to long prison terms after they were convicted of trapping and killing an endangered snow l...
Jail sentence for Afghan war objector The Independent | A soldier who chose to go Awol rather than be redeployed to Afghanistan was jailed for nine months by a military court yesterday. | L/cpl Joe Glenton, 27, pleaded guilty to a cha...
German court jails Islamists for foiled U.S. attacks The Star | DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - Four Islamist militants who admitted planning "a monstrous bloodbath" with foiled car bomb attacks on U.S. targets in Germany were convicted on T...
Judge Considers Sending Ex-Edwards Aide To Jail CBS News Judge Considers Sending Former John Edwards Aide To Jail Over Handling Of Candidate's Sex Tape | Font size Print E-mail Share | (AP) | (AP) | (AP) | (AP) Previous slide Next slide (AP) PITTSBORO, N.C. (AP) - A judge said Tuesday he is considering whe...
Andrew Young To Prison: Former John Edwards Aide And Wife Ordered To Jail Over Sex Tape Huffington Post | ABC News: | Former John Edwards aide Andrew Young and his wife Cheri were ordered to spend up to 75 days in jail today over their handling of a purported sex tape allegedly made by the one-time presidential candidate and his mistress, according to ...
Teen Hauled to Jail For Overdue Library DVD - Overdue dvd - Gizmodo Newsvine | What started as a routine traffic stop ended with a Colorado teen doing hard time. The offense? Not returning a "House of Flying Daggers" DVD to his local library. Come on, Colorado. You're better than that. | ...
Obama still wants some Guantánamo captives to face US trials The Miami Herald | WASHINGTON -- White House aides are increasingly convinced that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed will never face trial in a civilian court and are trying to cut a deal that would still transfer Guantánamo Bay terrorism suspects to the U.S., where many would faces criminal charges, a senior administration official said Monday. | Presi...
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Iraq war had Blair 'depressed' and wanting to quit The Himalayan | LONDON: Tony Blair was so depressed after the Iraq war that the then British premier told Gordon Brown he would quit the following summer, only to renege on his pledge, a newspaper reported today. | The physical and mental stress on Blair was so profound that he confided to friends he "spaced out" several times during his weekly session of parlia...
Iran rejects West's call to free political prisoners The Siasat Daily | Geneva, February 18: Iran rejected calls to release all political prisoners and accept an international inquiry into violence after last June’s contested presidential elections, an official UN report said. | The Islamic Republic also refused to end the death penalty and said it would not make torture as an offence under its laws, according to t...
