U.S. Astronaut Released From Jail
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER ORLANDO, Fla. - Until a few months ago, Lisa Nowak's life seemed to be on a perfect trajectory. She became an astronaut after winning a series of Navy service awards. She had flown on the shuttle Discovery, and was a mother of three children.
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Former Lost star Michelle Rodriguez has is released from jail 18 days into a six-month sentence linked to driving offences.
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U.S. astronaut Lisa Nowak returned to Houston on Wednesday and was to undergo mental evaluation at Johnson Space Center after her arrest on charges she tried to kill a romantic rival for a fellow astronaut.
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has released from jail peace activist Ali Shakeri, the last of four Iranian-Americans imprisoned in recent months after being accused of stirring up a revolution, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday.
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An Iranian-American academic has been released from detention in Tehran's Evin prison after being held since May, the Open Society Institute said on Wednesday.
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A former NASA astronaut accused of assaulting a romantic rival at a Florida airport can take off her electronic tracking bracelet while she awaits trial, a judge ruled Thursday.
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Yaser E. Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan, will be freed and allowed to return to Saudi Arabia in the next few days.
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A senior member of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas has been released from an Israeli prison after completing a two-year sentence.
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Gary Collins was released from jail Friday after completing his four-day drunken driving sentence.
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O.J. Simpson was freed from a Las Vegas jail on Wednesday evening, after spending five nights behind bars for trying to contact a defendant in an armed-robbery case that could send him to prison for life.
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Former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks is released from prison in Australia after completing his term.
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An American was released from an Afghan prison and flown out of the country Saturday after serving more than two years for running a private prison as part of a freelance hunt for terrorists, officials said.
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Hotel heiress Paris Hilton, who commanded as much attention behind bars as on the Hollywood party scene, regained her freedom on Tuesday after serving three weeks in jail for violating probation in a drunk-driving case.
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A U.S. space shuttle astronaut accused of trying to kidnap and murder a romantic rival for a fellow astronaut arrived back in Houston on Wednesday after she was freed on bail in Florida.
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Former US sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins was released from military detention on Saturday, five days earlier than originally scheduled.
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General Vang Pao, accused of leading a plot to overthrow the Lao government, is freed on bail in the US.
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A US astronaut accused of driving 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) to try to kidnap a rival for a space shuttle pilot's affection was released on bail Tuesday but ordered to wear a tracking device.