Court fines Venezuelan comedian Marquez
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Comedian Laureano Marquez has poked fun at politicians for decades without getting into trouble with the law, so he didn't think twice about writing a tongue-in-cheek newspaper editorial based on a dialogue between President Hugo Chavez and his 9-year-old daughter.
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A Norwalk doctor accused in a vaccine fraud case has been fined $30,000 and has been placed on probation for two years. Doctor Jorge Elias had been charged with billing Medicaid and other
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Manchester, England (Sports Network) - Manchester City fined midfielder Joey Barton six weeks&#39; wages after an ugly incident at a Christmas party Sunday night.
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The boss of a small Moldovan club has been fined 2,000 (1,080 pounds) for driving his jeep on to the pitch and trying to run over the referee after a disputed penalty.
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CLAREMONT  A former visiting Claremont McKenna College psychology professor, who reported her car was vandalized with racist and anti-semitic slurs while she was on campus, was convicted Wednesday of insurance fraud charges.
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A Spanish court on Friday ordered the seizure of all copies of a weekly satirical magazine which printed a caricature on its cover depicting Crown Prince Felipe and his wife Princess Letizia having sex.
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A Venezuelan man pleaded guilty Friday in a scheme to cover up the source of $800,000 seized in a suitcase in Argentina that was allegedly sent by Venezuelans as a donation to Cristina Fernandez's presidential campaign.
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A federal judge sentences Gregory Reyes, former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems, to 21 months in prison and fines him $15 million. It's the harshest penalty yet in a tempest that has rattled corporate America.
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ZURICH: The Spanish Football Federation was fined 100,000 Swiss francs ($NZ123,000) on Tuesday for the racist chanting of its fans at the friendly match against England in Madrid in November.
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Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer is fined $5,000 by the NFL for making an obscene gesture during last week's game against Miami.
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By Alistair Bell MEXICO CITY  - Latin American literary giantGabriel Garcia Marquez has won the last laugh on copyrightpirates by changing the ending of his latest book, the Nobellaureate's first novel in 10 years.
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Yankee imperialist time zone go home Venezuelan prez Hugo Chavez today postponed a scheme to secure his place in the pantheon of classic comedy Latin American despots by shifting back his country's clocks half an hour, Reuters reports.â¦
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A man who won a record &#36;315 million in the Powerball lottery was taken to jail on charges of drunken driving and carrying a pistol, authorities said.
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A man who created a "winning" Powerball ticket and planted it at work as a practical joke was sentenced to a year of probation for forgery and tampering with public records.
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NEW YORK - A man arrested after telling lawyer jokes at a courthouse got the last laugh when a grand jury dismissed the disorderly conduct charge against him.
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A radio station in Uganda is given a $1,000 fine for hosting homosexuals in a live talk-show.
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VIENNA, Austria - An Austrian woman who shouted insulting remarks about Pope John Paul II outside Vienna's main cathedral was fined $325 after a court convicted her Monday of disturbing the peace.