Limp Bizkit star avoids jail term
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Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst, who allegedly hit two people with his car on purpose, gets a suspended jail sentence.
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Singer Courtney Love pleaded not  guilty on Wednesday to charges of assault stemming from an  April incident in which she is alleged to have thrown a whiskey  bottle in the face of a woman asleep in the Los Angeles home of  her ex-boyfriend.
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Singer Courtney Love is spared jail for assault and drug offences but must serve three years probation.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski was sentenced Friday to five years' probation, avoiding jail time after cooperating with baseball's investigation into performance-enhancing drugs.
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All-Met linebacker Pat Lazear, who previously pleaded guilty to his role in the robbery of a Smoothie King store, was sentenced today to 10 years in jail with all but 40 days suspended. Lazear also was sentenced to three years of supervised probation, 150 hours of community service and must make...
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After praising   his songwriting prowess, a London judge on Monday ordered the   Babyshambles singer to spend additional time at a drug rehabilitation   facility in lieu of jail for a litany of drug-possession charges.
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A onetime employee of the Sandia National Laboratories pleaded guilty last week to using gorvernment computers to stalk Chester Bennington, the lead singer for the group Linkin Park.
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Singer George Michael is told he will not receive a custodial sentence for driving while unfit.
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Actor Tom Sizemore is sent to jail for 16 months for violating his probation in connection with a drugs charge.
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Rock star's successful rehabilitation convinces judge to quash compulsory supervision order.
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The rapper DMX failed to show up in court Wednesday to face a bevy of bad-driving charges, and a judge who had granted him two postponements said she had had enough.
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Grammy-nominated rapper Busta Rhymes pleaded guilty on Wednesday to assault, two driving infractions and weapons possession, avoiding a trial and the yearlong prison sentence recommended by prosecutors.
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A policeman who falsely claimed to be off work sick while fitting new bathrooms has been spared jail.
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A former cast member of the BBC's Casualty avoids a jail term after being found guilty of not reporting an accident.
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Vancouver Canucks player Todd Bertuzzi will avoid jail by pleading guilty to assault today, according to CBC News, while his victim continues to struggle with physical problems.
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Spending nine months in jail for conspiring to sell bongs on the Internet didn't scare Tommy Chong straight.
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The actor was convicted on three misdemeanor charges of failing to file tax returns or to pay taxes. He faces up to three years in prison.