Die Hard director facing prison
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Film-maker John McTiernan is sentenced to four months in prison after a judge refuses to let him change his guilty plea.
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The actor was convicted on three misdemeanor charges of failing to file tax returns or to pay taxes. He faces up to three years in prison.
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The state's corrections system is dangerously overcrowded and in crisis. A federal panel is about to render a judgment that could force open prison doors.
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A naked intruder who broke into  actor Nicolas Cage's waterfront home near Los Angeles last year  has been ordered to undergo six months of drug rehabilitation,  officials said on Thursday.
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It seems prosecutors can't catch a break in convicting Hollywood stars who are tried for serious crimes, but legal experts said on Wednesday that money plays a bigger role than fame in securing their freedom.
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Michael Griffith is about to pay with his life for violating the law he once swore to enforce.
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Kevin Costner has gone to the South Dakota Supreme Court in a legal shootout over a Deadwood casino he owns. The actor-director is asking the court to send the case back to a judge.
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A former business partner of murdered racing legend Mickey Thompson was ordered Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison, despite declaring that he was not responsible for the deaths of Thompson and his wife.
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A powerful paramilitary boss faces a long prison sentence &#151; and possible extradition to the United States &#151; because he broke a partial amnesty deal by continuing to run a drug smuggling ring from jail, authorities said Friday.
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NEW YORK  - Crime rates might be dropping nationwide, but you wouldn't know from the latest wave of vigilante-themed films. Beating the Jodie Foster thriller "The Brave One" by two weeks, James Wan's "Death Sentence" demonstrates that first is not necessarily best.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Die Hard" director John McTiernan is set to take the helm on the Las Vegas action thriller "High Stakes" for Persistent Pictures and Velvet Octopus.
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The man who shot and paralyzed Alabama Gov. George Wallace on the presidential campaign trail in 1972 is due to be let out of prison this year after serving 35 years of a 53-year term, a prison official said on Thursday.
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A man who said the movie "The Passion of the Christ" prompted him to confess to strangling his girlfriend has been sentenced to 75 years in prison.
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A federal judge sentenced Hollywood director John McTiernan to four months in prison Monday after refusing to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea to charges of lying to the FBI about his association with disgraced private eye Anthony Pellicano.
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LOS ANGELES  - A Hollywood man accused of using a video camcorder to record movies has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison.
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The actor faces three years in jail. Do you think his career is over?
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The former head of an agency that aims to keep film production in Hollywood was sentenced on Monday to probation on charges of embezzling public funds to pay for lavish entertainment.