Boy George avoids jail time
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Boy George won&#039;t be going to jail. But the former Culture Club singer got a scolding from a judge Monday for not complying with the terms of his sentence on a drug charge.
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A judge sentenced the son of an imprisoned Utah polygamist to 180 days in jail Tuesday for having sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet site MySpace.
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Singer George Michael is due to be sentenced after he admitted driving while unfit through drugs.
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Rock star Pete Doherty has been fined 770 pounds and banned from driving for four months for possessing illegal drugs, including crack cocaine and heroin.
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A judge on Friday allowed R. Kelly to  remain free on bond pending his trial on child pornography  charges, even though the R&B singer missed a court appearance  this week.
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Rock star given suspended jail sentence and fined Â£475 for drug and driving offences.
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Boy George, garbage man. The one-time Culture Club singer will do five days of court-ordered community service as an employee of the Department of Sanitation, a spokesman for the city agency confirmed Tuesday.
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British rocker Pete Doherty smiled and hugged fans outside court on Monday after a judge ruled he will not serve jail time for possession of drugs including heroine and crack cocaine. District Judge Jane McIvor ordered the 27-year-old Babyshambles singer to pay $1,525 in fines and court costs and forbade him from driving for four months.
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A former apartheid soldier-turned-mercenary avoided the death penalty at a sentencing here Friday, but still received a 34-year prison term for trying to overthrow the government of this oil-rich West African nation.
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Pop star George Michael was banned from driving for two years and sentenced to 100 hours&#39; community service Friday after pleading guilty to driving while unfit through drugs.
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Babyshambles singer narrowly avoids instant arrest after arriving for court hearing almost two and a half hours late.
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Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis receives a four-month jail sentence Wednesday after pleading guilty to attempting to set up a drug deal in 2000.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Sept. 10 -- A Zimbabwean court jailed a former British special services officer for seven years Friday in a case prosecutors linked to a foiled coup attempt in the oil-rich country of Equatorial Guinea.
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PRETORIA -- Sir Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister, avoided jail and agreed to pay a $500,000 fine yesterday after pleading guilty for what he called his unwitting role in a failed plot last year to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny, oil-rich West African nation long ruled by a dictator.
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LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. - Charges have been dropped against a man arrested in a restaurant for not leaving a big enough tip...
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Rocker Pete Doherty was on Friday handed a suspended jail sentence for a string of drug and motoring offences, just two days after vowing to turn over a new leaf.
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It's game over for The Game. The rapper was sentenced Monday to 60 days in jail after pleading no contest to felony possession of a firearm in a school zone. Two other counts were dismissed under a plea agreement, the district attorney's office said.