Jail for lonely-hearts conwoman
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A woman who conned tens of thousands of pounds from men she met through dating sites is jailed for two years.
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FARMINGTON, Mo. - An woman is accused of stealing the gavel from the judge overseeing her case. Tammy Lynn Price, 28, was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor stealing for an incident that happened in October.
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FRIDLEY, Minn. - A woman accused of putting fake charity donation boxes around the Twin Cities wasn't out of jail long before being arrested again.
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Marion Jones was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for lying about using steroids and a check-fraud scam, despite beseeching the judge that she not be separated from her two young children "even for a short period of time."
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Actress Lindsay Lohan is to serve 24 hours in jail after pleading guilty to drink driving and drug charges.
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BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - Chinese police have cracked a matchmaking ring whose members pretended to be millionaires, introducing themselves to lonely hearts for exorbitant fees, Chinese media reported on Friday.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 16--RALEIGH -- A woman pleaded guilty Friday to embezzling money from a Raleigh church and was sentenced to five years of supervised probation.
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Nothing quite stirs a media frenzy like an heiress to a hotel fortune preparing to surrender all the trappings of luxury for a three-week stay in the county jail.
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Martha Stewart's Web site says she has reported to prison.
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Homemaking icon Martha Stewart will serve her five-month jail sentence for lying about a suspicious stock sale at a minimum security prison in West Virginia, a source close to the case said Wednesday.
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A "loner" who killed a young woman and buried her body in a shallow grave is sentenced to life in prison at the Old Bailey.
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Paris Hilton says she is locking up her "dumb" act and throwing away the key. Hilton revealed her new outlook in a weekend phone call to Barbara Walters from a county jail medical ward where she is serving out a 45-day sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
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Foxy Brown was sentenced Friday to one year in jail for violating probation that stemmed from a fight with two manicurists in a New York City nail salon three years ago. "I'm not going to give you any more chances," Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson told the 28-year-old rapper. "I hope you turn your life around and never again have to stand in a court of law."
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Homemaking icon Martha Stewart will serve her five-month jail sentence for lying about a suspicious stock sale at a minimum security prison in West Virginia she said on Wednesday.
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Election-year tactics like making anonymous phone calls or inventing make-believe groups to criticize the opponent now come with a higher price: the possibility of time in jail.
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A woman accused of luring an elderly acquaintance to her home, shooting her to death, stealing her money and hiding the corpse was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.
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A sobbing Paris Hilton was ordered back to jail on Friday as a judge overruled a sheriff's decision to place the hotel heiress under house arrest for psychological problems after she spent three days behind bars.