Glitter's Vietnam jail term cut by 3 months
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A Vietnamese court has reduced British pop singer Gary Glitter's prison term for child molestation by three months, a judge said, moving forward his release date to August 2008.
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A Chinese research assistant for The Times served three years in prison on a conviction that sparked outrage.
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The ex-chief finance chief at US Foodservice, a unit of Dutch retailer Ahold, gets three years' probation.
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Disgraced British rocker Gary Glitter protested his innocence Thursday after an appeals court in Vietnam upheld his conviction and three-year prison sentence for molesting young girls at a seaside villa.
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Victor Willis, a member of The Village People, is given three years probation for drugs offences.
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Ronald Isley has been sentenced to three years and one month in prison for tax evasion.
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The first member of US military intelligence to be tried for abusing naked Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison was sentenced today to eight months in prison, as American troops in Iraq marked the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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One of Hollywood&#39;s top fund-raisers was sentenced on Monday to 63 months in prison for skimming donations intended for charity galas to pay personal expenses, prosecutors in Los Angeles said.
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It will be a week that Paris Hilton &#151; and a celebrity-obsessed nation &#151; won't soon forget. What started as a graceful attempt by the 26-year-old socialite to accept her punishment for violating probation in a reckless driving case ended Friday when a disheveled and tearful Hilton was ordered back to jail to serve out the remainder of her 45-day sentence.
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Isley Brothers star Ronald Isley is sentenced to three years in prison for multiple tax evasion charges.
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A Chinese researcher for The New York Times who was detained on charges of violating state secrets laws and later convicted of fraud was released Saturday after serving a 3-year prison sentence.
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Rapper Lil&#039; Kim left prison on Monday  after serving nearly 10 months for perjury and, in typical  fashion, she did so in style.
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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's unremorseful former top aide should be sentenced to 2 1/2 to 3 years in prison for perjury and obstruction of justice in a case linked to the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war, the special prosecutor in the case said on Friday.
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Disgraced political donor Norman Hsu was sentenced Friday to three years in prison after a judge rejected his bid to throw out a 16-year-old fraud conviction
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TOKYO - A man arrested last year on copyright charges for disseminating films on the Internet was given a three-year suspended sentence Tuesday - averting a jail term in one of the first crackdowns on file-sharing in Japan.
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Democratic fundraiser and political donor Norman Hsu was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison after a California judge rejected his bid to dismiss a 16-year-old fraud conviction.
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Pop star Gary Glitter, jailed last year for molesting two girls in Vietnam, could be freed early under an amnesty.