Rapper Sigel sentenced to 1 day in jail
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Rap star Beanie Sigel was found guilty Wednesday of a second probation violation for taking a trip to Atlantic City, N.J., and for being in contact with a convicted felon.
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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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Rapper Foxy Brown has received 76 days in punitive segregation after she scuffled with another inmate at Rikers Island jail, authorities said Tuesday.
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One of Hollywood'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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A CHINESE UNIVERSITY student has been sentenced to a year in jail for flogging porn on the internet. According to the state Xinhua news agency, the 22 year-old student, identified only by his surname Xie, was
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Rap star Beanie Sigel was briefly jailed Wednesday and ordered to live in a halfway house for six months after a second probation violation, just weeks before his federal probation was to have ended.
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The head of the hip-hop music label behind top-selling artists Ashanti and Ja Rule was charged on Wednesday with laundering more than &#36;1 million in drug money through his record company, The Inc.
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A court Tuesday sentenced a leader of an extremist group known as the Mad Crowd to 3 1/2 years in prison for hate crime attacks on foreigners, the judge said.
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A judge who condemned federal sentencing laws as "unjust, cruel and irrational" said he had little choice Tuesday but to sentence a first-time drug offender caught with a handgun to 55 years and one day in prison.
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The rapper Busta Rhymes was sentenced on Wednesday to three yearsâ probation and 10 days of community service for assaulting his former driver and a fan, The Associated Press reported. Busta Rhymes, 35, whose real name is Trevor Smith, was also fined $1,250 and ordered to pay court costs for driving while intoxicated and with a suspended license. He pleaded guilty to the charges, stemming from four separate incidents, in Manhattan Criminal Court.
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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.
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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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Socialite Paris Hilton has begun serving her Los Angeles jail sentence for violating probation, her attorney said on Sunday.
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CROWN POINT, Ind. - Officials are at a loss to explain how they allowed a homeless, mentally ill man accused of stealing a soda to languish in jail for 17 months.
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A U.S. judge on Monday gave a 29-month  prison sentence to David Radler, one-time president of media  giant Hollinger International Inc, whose trial testimony helped  convict former press baron Conrad Black.
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The head of the hip-hop music label  behind top-selling artists Ashanti and Ja Rule was charged on  Wednesday with laundering more than $1 million in drug money  through his record company, The Inc.
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A bodyguard for Lil' Kim who admitted firing a gun at least 20 times in a shootout as the rapper left a hip-hop radio station was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison.