Man sentenced in Cruise extortion try
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A man who tried to extort $1.3 million from Tom Cruise in exchange for stolen wedding photographs of the actor and Katie Holmes was sentenced to two years probation Thursday.
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By ANN SANNER  WASHINGTON - A 59-year-old man was sentenced Monday to 8 1/2 years in prison on charges stemming from his use of stolen identities in an attempt to acquire more than $100,000 in payments intended for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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A jailed man who told his family he was in Thailand is sentenced for keeping child pornography.
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The great-grandson of late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for his part in a multimillion-dollar Ecstasy racket.
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A US man jailed for having consensual oral sex with a teenage girl has his sentence overturned.
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The owner of a dinner cruise boat that capsized last year off the coast of Manama, killing 58 people, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years in jail, his lawyer was quoted as saying Thursday.
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A computer technician involved in a  bid to extort $1.3 million from Tom Cruise for copies of the  actor's stolen wedding photographs was sentenced on Thursday to  two years probation.
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FARGO, N.D. - A man who stripped to the waist, put on safety goggles and tore up a Verizon Wireless store after complaining of bad phone service has been sentenced to 60 days in jail.
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PORTLAND, Ore. An Oregon man who tried to extort money from &quot;Doctor Seuss&#39;&quot; widow has been sentenced to three years&#39; probation.
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A computer systems administrator was  sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for trying to  sabotage his company's servers out of fear he was about to lose  his job, prosecutors said.
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hers to prison terms of up to 10 years on Wednesday for the deadly attack in 2000 against the Norfolk-based destroyer Cole. The convictions were the first
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A California man has been sentenced to seven years and three months in prison and ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution as a result of a federal piracy case, software company Autodesk said Friday.
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A 21-year-old Michigan man who tried to steal credit card numbers from a national hardware store chain is sentenced to nine years in federal prison.
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A man caught with plans for a missile on his computer was sentenced Tuesday to 3 1/2 years in a British prison after being convicted of a terrorist offense.
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WASHINGTON - A Liberian man was sentenced Friday to nearly three years in prison for trying to extort $2 million from the Christian Science Monitor by promising to win the release of journalist Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in Iraq.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 22--A Rio Rico man was sentenced to more than three years in prison Wednesday for downloading child pornography from the Internet.
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A man who admitted making a hoax call which led to a Â£45,000 air and sea search is imprisoned.