Marion Jones sentenced to six months in prison
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WHITE PLAINS, New York  - Disgraced Olympic sprinter Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday for lying to federal prosecutors about her steroid use.
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US sprint star Marion Jones has filed a $US 25 million ($AUD 32.7 million) defamation lawsuit against accused steroid peddler Victor Conte saying he has sullied her reputation by making false claims she used banned performance enhancing drugs.
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Disgraced American Olympic hero Marion Jones said she hasn't told her young son that she is going to jail for lying to law enforcement officials about using steroids and a check-fraud scheme.
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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 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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An attorney who admitted leaking the confidential grand jury testimony of Barry Bonds and other athletes to a reporter was sentenced Thursday to two and a half years in prison, by far the harshest penalty to result from the government's sprawling probe of steroids in sports.
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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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A former suburban mayor was sentenced Monday to nearly six years in prison for a scheme in which he and other government officials pocketed tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to steer city business to contractors.
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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 the  dynamite used in the March 11 Madrid train bombings.
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Marion Jones will not race again this season because she says her conditioning is lacking after taking a month off following her positive EPO test.
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Disgraced former US Olympic champion sentenced to prison for lying to investigators about steroid use
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Five-time Olympic medalist Marion Jones injected herself in the leg with human growth hormone and was given other performance-enhancing drugs, the head of a Bay Area nutritional supplement laboratory under federal investigation told ABC News.
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An Israeli court on Monday sentenced Mordechai Vanunu, who in 2004 completed an 18-year prison term for spilling nuclear secrets, to six more months behind bars after he violated a ban on speaking to foreigners.
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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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Three people who kept an epileptic man hostage for six weeks are sent to prison for a total of 29 years.
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Seymour M. Lazar was sentenced to six monthsâ home detention and a $600,000 fine for lying under oath about secret payments he received.
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TRENTON, New Jersey  - Three animal rights   activists convicted under a U.S. anti-terrorism law were   sentenced to up to 6 years in prison on Tuesday for a campaign   against a British company that tests chemicals on animals.