Marion Jones gets six months in prison
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WHITE PLAINS, New York  - Disgraced U.S. sprinter Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday for lying to federal prosecutors about her steroid use, a stunning downfall for the five-time Olympic medalist.
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A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc   analyst was sentenced to nearly five years in prison on  Thursday for leading an insider-trading ring that netted more  than $6 million in illegal profits.
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Andrew Fastow, whose financial wizardry   was exposed as fakery and theft in the Enron Corp. collapse,   was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday -- four years less   than provided in his 2004 plea agreement.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Marion Jones was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for lying about using steroids and a check-fraud scam, despite beseeching the judge that she not be separated from her two young children "even for a short period of time."
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SALVO, North Carolina  - Marion Jones's prison sentence for lying about steroid use proves how effective cooperation between government and anti-doping agencies can be in the fight against drugs in sport, officials and coaches say.
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A politician in Turkey is sentenced to six months in prison for calling Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan "Mr".
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Marion Jones is cleared of doping allegations after her 'B' sample tests negative.
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Sprinter Marion Jones bites her lip as she addresses the media during a news conference in San Francisco, Calif., in this June 16, 2004, file photo.
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Three animal-rights activists convicted of using their Web site to incite threats and harassment against a company that tests products on animals received prison sentences ranging from four to six years Tuesday.
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Sgt. Javal Davis, who admitted abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib in late 2003, was sentenced Friday to six months in a military prison and given a bad-conduct discharge from the Army.
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A man who admitted destroying a house with a digger is jailed for six years.
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A 16-year-old Spaniard was sentenced to six years in a juvenile detention center on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to charges he helped steal and transport dynamite used in the March 11 Madrid train bombings.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A man was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail for assaulting a man who shushed him during a movie, leaving the victim with a punctured lung and broken ribs.
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George Ryan was sentenced him to six and a half years in federal prison for racketeering and fraud.
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A US federal judge sentenced an author who wrote a series of books about avoiding taxes in off-shore locations to six months in prison on Monday.
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Marion Jones used several different performance-enhancing drugs over a substantial period of time, according to a detailed doping calendar that was part of several pages of court documents released Friday.
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Three people who kept an epileptic man hostage for six weeks are sent to prison for a total of 29 years.