La. Prison Journalist to Be Set Free
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An award-winning black journalist who was convicted of murder three times by all-white juries in the 1961 death of a bank teller was found guilty of manslaughter Saturday by a racially-mixed jury.
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LOS ANGELES, June 8 -- A sobbing, shouting Paris Hilton was led from the courtroom Friday and ordered by a judge to return to jail to serve out the remainder of her 45-day sentence.
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A Rhode Island television reporter was sentenced on Thursday to six months of home confinement for refusing to reveal who gave him an FBI videotape that was evidence
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Levar Haley Washington was finally free on parole after years in prison for robbery &#151; but unbeknownst to authorities, the Muslim convert was already plotting more serious crimes.
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The Cuban authorities on Tuesday freed the dissident writer RaÃºl Rivero, the best known of a dozen political prisoners released during the past few days in a
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A media rights group is urging the U.S. military to charge an Afghan journalist held at the Bagram military prison with a crime or set him free.
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Two French reporters held hostage for four months in Iraq were released Tuesday and handed over to French authorities.
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Hours after a beaming Paris Hilton  was freed from three weeks in jail, the sheriff criticized for  briefly putting her under house arrest said on Tuesday he  allowed her out because he feared for her life.
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Spain will let an al-Jazeera journalist convicted of links to al-Qaida serve the remainder of his jail term at home because of his heart condition, officials said Friday.
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An Iranian-American academic detained in a Tehran prison since May says he expects to be freed soon.
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A court on Monday sentenced the editor of an opposition newspaper and two other journalists to two years in jail for &quot;damaging the image of justice&quot;, in the latest case against Egypt&#39;s media.
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A man whose convictions in two 1985 slayings were overturned has been released from prison after prosecutors decided against retrying him.
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A Chinese journalist jailed while  working for the New York Times was released on Saturday, ending  a controversial prison term that highlighted the country&#39;s  tough media controls.
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O. J. Simpson is scheduled to be released from a Nevada jail today on bail of $125,000, under an agreement his lawyers reached with prosecutors.
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A man imprisoned for a 1992 rape was one step closer to freedom Friday after DNA tests appeared to clear him in the attack, his attorney said.
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Sick and tired of hearing about Paris Hilton? Then pack your suitcase and head for a desert island because America&#39;s most famous celebrity inmate is about to be a free woman again.
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One of five Cuban dissidents who have been released from prison this week has been told he should consider leaving the country. The Miami Herald reported Wednesday that writer Raul