Wed, May 23, 2012
MERRILL, Wis. (WSAU) – A Lincoln County jail inmate with work release privileges didn’t return to the jail last night.
Authorities say 46-year-old James ...
Tue, May 22, 2012
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - The United States sees drug abuse as a public health problem as much as a crime issue and is ...
Mon, May 21, 2012
By Jonathan Allen
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A former Rutgers University student was sentenced on Monday to 30 days in jail for a ...
Mon, May 14, 2012
NEILLSVILLE, Wis. (WSAU) – A Clark County jail inmate has pled guilty to escaping custody last August.
Christopher Demarrias was being treated at Memorial Medical ...
Thu, May 10, 2012
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A Michigan judge this week (beg07May12) sentenced the disgraced pageant queen to six months probation and 20 hours of community service ...
Wed, May 09, 2012
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A Michigan judge this week (beg07May12) sentenced the disgraced pageant queen to six months probation and 20 hours of community service ...
Sun, May 06, 2012
By Margaret Hartmann, Hollywood.com Staff
It seems David ""Puck"" Rainey deserves his reputation as reality TV's quintessential bad boy. While his antics ...
Sun, May 06, 2012
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The award-winning Misfits star punched cabbie Sakandar Iqbal and called him a ""P**i"" and a ""dirty b**stard"" during an ...
Sat, May 05, 2012
By Margaret Hartmann, Hollywood.com Staff
It seems David ""Puck"" Rainey deserves his reputation as reality TV's quintessential bad boy. While his antics ...
Sat, May 05, 2012
From WENN.com
The award-winning Misfits star punched cabbie Sakandar Iqbal and called him a ""P**i"" and a ""dirty b**stard"" during an ...
Fri, May 04, 2012
By Margaret Hartmann, Hollywood.com Staff
It seems David ""Puck"" Rainey deserves his reputation as reality TV's quintessential bad boy. While his antics ...
Fri, May 04, 2012
From WENN.com
The award-winning Misfits star punched cabbie Sakandar Iqbal and called him a ""P**i"" and a ""dirty b**stard"" during an ...
Thu, May 03, 2012
By Margaret Hartmann, Hollywood.com Staff
It seems David ""Puck"" Rainey deserves his reputation as reality TV's quintessential bad boy. While his antics ...
Thu, May 03, 2012
From WENN.com
The award-winning Misfits star punched cabbie Sakandar Iqbal and called him a ""P**i"" and a ""dirty b**stard"" during an ...
Fri, April 27, 2012
UNDATED (WRN) A newly released audit shows nearly 450 prison inmates in the state have been able to collect FoodShare benefits while behind bars ...
Wed, April 25, 2012
By Mahawish Rezvi and Qasim Nauman
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday found Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani guilty of contempt of ...
Wed, April 25, 2012
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Arab world's most famous comic actor, Adel Imam, will appeal a decision by an Egyptian court to sentence him to ...
Tue, April 24, 2012
By Tim Gaynor
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A hard-line Arizona sheriff under federal investigation for alleged racial profiling of Hispanics placed parts of a Phoenix jail ...
Sun, April 22, 2012
By David Manning
SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the killing of unarmed black teenager ...
Fri, April 20, 2012
By Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - The last of four men who escaped a central Kansas county jail on Wednesday has been captured ...
Wed, April 18, 2012
In the latest Ted Nugent news, the rock musician has gone on record to vocalize his animosity for President Barack Obama and his administration ...
Sun, April 15, 2012
MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) - A sergeant assigned to the Milwaukee city jail’s property division could soon face charges.
The Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office ...
Fri, April 13, 2012
(Reuters) - Former NBA star Jayson Williams was released from New York City's Rikers Island prison on Friday after serving eight months on a ...
Fri, April 06, 2012
By Jonathan Leff
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former commodities trader was sentenced to 28 months in prison on Friday for threatening to kill dozens ...
Thu, April 05, 2012
MILWAUKEE (WSAU) A lawyer from suburban Milwaukee has been sentenced to five years in prison, for stealing $542,000 in a fraud scheme. 52-year-old ...
Mon, April 02, 2012
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld strip searches of new jail inmates, even those arrested for minor traffic offenses ...
Mon, April 02, 2012
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that jails do not violate privacy rights by routinely strip-searching everyone ...
Thu, March 29, 2012
By James B. Kelleher and Rachelle Damico
DETROIT (Reuters) - Two members of the Midwest militia group Hutaree pleaded guilty to charges of possessing machine ...
Wed, March 28, 2012
The fallen sports star, who once dated Madonna and was briefly married to model Carmen Electra, cannot keep up with payments to his third ...
Tue, March 27, 2012
The fallen sports star, who once dated Madonna and was briefly married to model Carmen Electra, cannot keep up with payments to his third ...
Thu, March 22, 2012
By Jeb Blount and Joshua Schneyer
RIO DE JANEIRO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - When federal prosecutor Eduardo Santos de Oliveira heard in November about an ...
Wed, March 21, 2012
The 22 year old, who starred as bully Vincent Crabbe in the film franchise, was allegedly spotted holding a petrol bomb and swigging from ...
Wed, March 21, 2012
By Aman Ali
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A civil liberties group filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing a New York county of poor oversight of ...
Mon, March 19, 2012
By Laird Harrison
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, who pleaded guilty last week to falsely imprisoning his wife, was sentenced on ...
Mon, March 19, 2012
The movie hunk, who was once a male stripper in Florida, had to bundle his pal into a car and dress him like a ...
Thu, March 15, 2012
By Ashley Meeks
(Reuters) - The first defendant in a conspiracy involving leaders of a tiny New Mexico border town who ran guns to violent ...
Mon, March 12, 2012
FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ) - A repeated horse abuser was convicted of disorderly conduct Monday.
Sterling Rachwal pled no contest to the charge after ...
Sun, March 11, 2012
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People released from New York City jails face an increased risk of death from drug overdose, homicide ...
Fri, March 09, 2012
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People released from New York City jails face an increased risk of death from drug overdose, homicide ...
Thu, March 08, 2012
FOX LAKE, WI (WTAQ) - A southern Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 40 days in jail for driving a lawn tractor on a road ...
Sat, February 25, 2012
By Marwa Awad
CAIRO (Reuters) - The trial of dozens of democracy activists including 16 Americans began on Sunday in a politically charged case which ...
Wed, February 15, 2012
By Gustavo Palencia
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A massive fire swept through an overcrowded prison in Honduras and killed more than 350 inmates, including many trapped ...
Fri, February 10, 2012
By Edith Honan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The icing on the cake spelled out, "Welcome to the Brooklyn Detention Center."
The jail, which fills a ...
Thu, February 09, 2012
OMRO, Wis (WSAU) A Wisconsin man will spend six months in jail for beating his puppy to death, instead of following an order by ...
Thu, February 02, 2012
MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ) - A Milwaukee woman could go to prison for a year if she does not pay back $13,000 she stole from ...
Tue, January 31, 2012
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) - A plea deal leaves a high school teen mom with no jail time for abandoning her new born baby behind Kimberly ...
Tue, January 31, 2012
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The ex-cemetery worker who stole a guitar from a casket is sentenced to a year in jail.
40-year-old Steven Conard ...
Mon, January 30, 2012
BOSTON (Reuters) - A former Boston-area dentist accused of substituting paper clips for stainless steel posts in patient root canals was sentenced to two and ...
Mon, January 30, 2012
BOSTON (Reuters) - A former Boston-area dentist accused of substituting paper clips for stainless steel posts in patient root canals was sentenced to two and ...
Fri, January 27, 2012
MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) - A man who was freed on a signature bond for his role in a robbery and murder in Milwaukee was ordered back ...
Mon, January 23, 2012
By Mary Slosson
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine accused of leading a 2005 massacre of 24 civilians in the Iraqi city ...
Mon, January 16, 2012
MERRILL, Wis. (WSAU) – At least three inmates at the Lincoln County jail are facing charges for two separate fights last week.
The sheriff’s ...
Thu, January 12, 2012
(Reuters) - The billionaire owner of the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest crossing between the United States and Canada, was released after one night from the ...
Thu, January 12, 2012
(Reuters) - A book based on "revealing" diaries rapper Lil Wayne wrote while spending eight months in a New York jail will be published in ...
Fri, January 06, 2012
By Timothy Pratt
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A judge granted a request from boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr to postpone until June his three-month jail sentence ...
Fri, January 06, 2012
By Timothy Pratt
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A judge granted a request from boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr to postpone until June his three-month jail sentence ...
Mon, January 02, 2012
By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A convicted car thief who was assigned to a San Diego area state prison's fire fighting detail ...
Thu, December 29, 2011
By Jim Forsyth
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas prison officials are investigating whether jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs preached to his followers from behind bars ...
Thu, December 29, 2011
MERRILL, Wis. (WSAU) – Charges are still pending against a Tomahawk man accused of vandalizing the fire system at the Lincoln County Jail.
Twenty-year-old Brandon ...
Tue, December 27, 2011
MERRILL, Wis. (WSAU) – A Tomahawk man arrested for a fight Christmas Eve will appear in court today on charges he set off a fire ...
Wed, December 21, 2011
(Reuters) - A Las Vegas judge sentenced boxer Floyd Mayweather on Wednesday to six months behind bars for a 2010 attack on the mother of ...
Mon, December 19, 2011
By Joseph Ax
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A political consultant convicted of stealing nearly $1 million from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg during his ...
Sat, December 17, 2011
LIMA (Reuters) - Lori Berenson, a New Yorker who spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons for aiding Marxist insurgents, was prevented by Peru's interior ...
Fri, December 16, 2011
LIMA (Reuters) - Lori Berenson, a New Yorker who spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons for aiding Marxist insurgents, will visit the United States as ...
Tue, December 13, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three executives in a joint venture of Hitachi Ltd <6501.T> and LG Electronics <066570.KS> have agreed to plead guilty and serve several months in ...066570.ks>6501.t>
Wed, December 07, 2011
By Mark Shade
HARRISBURG, Pa (Reuters) - Former Penn State University football coach Jerry Sandusky posted bail and was released from jail on Thursday after ...
Sat, December 03, 2011
LA CROSSE, WI (WTAQ) - A court rules a La Crosse man could avoid jail time, even though he pleaded no contest to charges he ...
Fri, December 02, 2011
By Jeff Franks
HAVANA (Reuters) - An increasingly despondent U.S. aid contractor, Alan Gross, finishes his second year behind bars in Cuba on Saturday ...
Tue, November 29, 2011
By Piya Sinha-Roy
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, on Tuesday was sentenced to four years in jail without ...
Tue, November 29, 2011
By Gwladys Fouche and Victoria Klesty
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik may avoid jail but end up in a psychiatric institution ...
Tue, November 29, 2011
GREEN BAY, Wis (WSAU) Green Bay Packers linebacker Erik Walden is out of jail after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend. A police report says the ...
Fri, November 25, 2011
CROSS PLAINS, Wis (WSAU) A man who escaped from a state prison in Fox Lake was captured on Thanksgiving. 28-year-old Christopher Lacourciere was free ...
Wed, November 23, 2011
By Alex Dobuzinskis
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Wednesday asked a judge to sentence Michael Jackson's former doctor to the maximum four years ...
Wed, November 23, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Parents who abducted their eight young children from foster care in New York City were sentenced on Wednesday to 60 days ...
Tue, November 22, 2011
By Keith Coffman
DENVER (Reuters) - A U.S. airman accused of barricading himself on a Colorado air force base with a gun pleaded guilty ...
Tue, November 22, 2011
BELIOT, WI (WTAQ) - A Beloit man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing one man and wounding another while standing ...
Fri, November 18, 2011
By Tim Gaynor
PRESCOTT, Ariz (Reuters) - A judge sentenced self-help guru James Ray on Friday to two years in jail for the deaths of ...
Mon, November 14, 2011
STURGEON BAY, Wis (WSAU) A 19-year-old Sturgeon Bay man could go to prison for three years tomorrow for seeing his underage girlfriend in violation ...
Mon, November 14, 2011
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (WSAU) – A former Marshfield Clinic doctor will spend five years in prison for molesting his patients as they woke up from ...
Wed, November 09, 2011
Last week, Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to spend 30 days in jail due to violating the terms of her probation. Shortly after the judge ...
Tue, November 08, 2011
Last week, Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to spend 30 days in jail due to violating the terms of her probation. Shortly after the judge ...
Mon, November 07, 2011
Yesterday, Judge Stephanie Sautner sentenced Lindsay Lohan to 30 days in jail due to violating the terms of her probation. But it looks more ...
Sun, November 06, 2011
Yesterday, Judge Stephanie Sautner sentenced Lindsay Lohan to 30 days in jail due to violating the terms of her probation. But it looks more ...
Sat, November 05, 2011
Yesterday, Judge Stephanie Sautner sentenced Lindsay Lohan to 30 days in jail due to violating the terms of her probation. But it looks more ...
Fri, November 04, 2011
Yesterday, Judge Stephanie Sautner sentenced Lindsay Lohan to 30 days in jail due to violating the terms of her probation. But it looks more ...
Fri, November 04, 2011
The Mean Girls star appeared before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner on Wednesday (02Nov11) and confessed to skipping 14 of her ...
Fri, November 04, 2011
Judgment day has finally come for Lindsay Lohan. Today the actress appeared in court and pleaded guilty to violating the terms her probation in ...
Fri, November 04, 2011
The Mean Girls star pleaded guilty to a probation violation on Wednesday (02Nov11) and Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner sentenced her ...
Thu, November 03, 2011
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - It could soon cost more for inmates to get-out-of-jail in Green Bay. Brown County Sheriff John Gossage has proposed a ...
Tue, November 01, 2011
STEVENS POINT, Wis (WSAU) Portage County’s proposed budget includes some long-range planning money for a new county jail. That’s controversial because jail ...
Mon, October 31, 2011
Michael Lohan appeared in a Florida court on Wednesday (26Oct11), where he faced domestic violence charges following an arrest at Major's apartment on ...
Sun, October 30, 2011
Michael Lohan appeared in a Florida court on Wednesday (26Oct11), where he faced domestic violence charges following an arrest at Major's apartment on ...
Sat, October 29, 2011
Michael Lohan appeared in a Florida court on Wednesday (26Oct11), where he faced domestic violence charges following an arrest at Major's apartment on ...
Fri, October 28, 2011
Michael Lohan appeared in a Florida court on Wednesday (26Oct11), where he faced domestic violence charges following an arrest at Major's apartment on ...
Wed, October 19, 2011
Panahi, a vocal supporter of the country's opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, was convicted last year (10) of protesting against the political regime and ...
Tue, October 18, 2011
Panahi, a vocal supporter of the country's opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, was convicted last year (10) of protesting against the political regime and ...
Fri, October 14, 2011
GREENFIELD, WI (WTAQ) - Facebook postings could wind up sending a 17 year old Greenfield boy to prison for four years. Justin Cervera could also ...
Wed, October 12, 2011
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court considered on Wednesday whether jails violated constitutional privacy rights by routinely strip searching everyone ...
Fri, October 07, 2011
By Michael Peltier
MARIANNA, Fla (Reuters) - A Cuban agent jailed for spying on Cuban exiles in Florida was freed from a U.S. prison ...
Fri, October 07, 2011
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis (WSAU) A Wisconsin Rapids man was sentenced to 5-years in prison for charging at a police officer with a knife. Last ...
Mon, October 03, 2011
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A TV infomercial pitchman accused of defrauding more than 226,000 people out of nearly $52 million has died in his Arizona ...
Mon, October 03, 2011
RACINE, Wis (WSAU) A member of the Racine City Council was jailed yesterday, for allegedly hitting and choking a pregnant employee at the tavern ...
Thu, September 29, 2011
By Deepa Babington
PERUGIA, Italy (Reuters) - American student Amanda Knox was a naive young woman publicly "crucified" and "impaled" to justify wrongly imprisoning her ...
Wed, September 28, 2011
By David Beasley
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Former professional basketball player Javaris Crittenton, accused of killing a young mother of four in a drive-by shooting in ...
Tue, September 27, 2011
By Kelli Dugan
MOBILE, Ala (Reuters) - Officials in Bay Minette, Alabama delayed a new program that would allow some nonviolent offenders to choose church ...
Mon, September 26, 2011
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – A judge has sentenced a Wausau man to nine months in jail on charges he threatened two teenagers with a BB ...
Sat, September 24, 2011
By Deepa Babington
PERUGIA, Italy (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors asked a court on Saturday to put American student Amanda Knox behind bars for life for ...
Fri, September 23, 2011
By Kelli Dugan
MOBILE, Ala (Reuters) - Starting on Monday, nonviolent offenders in Bay Minette, Alabama, will get to choose whether to serve their sentence ...
Wed, September 21, 2011
By Parisa Hafezi
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Two U.S. citizens sentenced in Iran to eight years' jail for spying flew out of the country on ...
Fri, September 16, 2011
By Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A man who tried to board a Southwest Airlines flight with materials that resembled bomb parts was ...
Mon, September 12, 2011
The fallen fashion king was arrested in February (11) over allegations he became embroiled in a bust-up at a venue in Paris, France, and ...
Sun, September 11, 2011
The fallen fashion king was arrested in February (11) over allegations he became embroiled in a bust-up at a venue in Paris, France, and ...
Sat, September 10, 2011
The fallen fashion king was arrested in February (11) over allegations he became embroiled in a bust-up at a venue in Paris, France, and ...
Fri, September 09, 2011
WAUSAU, Wis (WSAU) A man who escaped from a police cruiser and sparked a high speed chase is facing charges in Wood and Marathon ...
Fri, September 09, 2011
The fallen fashion king was arrested in February (11) over allegations he became embroiled in a bust-up at a venue in Paris, France, and ...
Thu, September 08, 2011
By Chris Buckley
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese rights activist Wang Lihong was sentenced to nine months in jail on Friday in a case that has ...
Wed, September 07, 2011
By Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - When a man with a gun jumped on the hood of her car in Kansas City and ...
Wed, September 07, 2011
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania man sentenced to death earlier this year for killing three Pittsburgh police officers was given an additional sentence of 85 ...
Wed, September 07, 2011
MADISON (WSAU) A 41-year-old Tomahawk man will spend 17-years in prison for his role in running a Lincoln County meth operation. Bernard Robinson was ...
Tue, September 06, 2011
MIAMI (Reuters) - Former media mogul Conrad Black returned to prison on Tuesday in Florida to finish serving a sentence for fraud and obstruction of ...
Fri, September 02, 2011
MADISON (WSAU) A Merrill man involved in a methamphetamine operation in Lincoln County was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison.
41-year-old ...
Thu, September 01, 2011
MADISON (WSAU) A former Department of Motor Vehicles employee who sold drivers licensees to illegal immigrants will spend three years in prison. 36-year-old Khue ...
Thu, September 01, 2011
Sometimes, in order to escape the iconic roles with which they are branded, actors need to swing way outside their type and play roles ...
Wed, August 31, 2011
Sometimes, in order to escape the iconic roles with which they are branded, actors need to swing way outside their type and play roles ...
Tue, August 30, 2011
The Joe Dirt star was almost three times over the legal limit when she was booked.
Pressly was charged with two counts of driving ...
Mon, August 29, 2011
The Joe Dirt star was almost three times over the legal limit when she was booked.
Pressly was charged with two counts of driving ...
Sun, August 28, 2011
The Joe Dirt star was almost three times over the legal limit when she was booked.
Pressly was charged with two counts of driving ...
Sat, August 27, 2011
The Joe Dirt star was almost three times over the legal limit when she was booked.
Pressly was charged with two counts of driving ...
Thu, August 25, 2011
By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An illegal immigrant from Mexico who admitted faking U.S. citizenship while serving as an Anchorage police officer ...
Sat, August 20, 2011
By Mitra Amiri
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The lawyer for two Americans convicted of spying in Iran said Sunday he would appeal their eight-year sentence, which ...
Fri, August 19, 2011
The TV personality, best known as a choreographer and judge on Randy Jackson's hit MTV show America's Best Dance Crew, was taken ...
Thu, August 18, 2011
VIENNA (Reuters) - Former Austrian skiing coach Walter Mayer has been given a prison sentence after being found guilty of supplying doping substances to athletes ...
Thu, August 18, 2011
The TV personality, best known as a choreographer and judge on Randy Jackson's hit MTV show America's Best Dance Crew, was taken ...
Wed, August 17, 2011
UNDATED, Wis. (WHBL) - Wood County will become the latest to charge a daily fee for eating-and-sleeping in jail. The County Board in Wisconsin Rapids ...
Wed, August 17, 2011
By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Paul de Bendern
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A vast and jubilant crowd cheered as Gandhian activist Anna Hazare walked out ...
Thu, August 11, 2011
OSHKOSH, Wis (WSAU) There was a hostage situation in the Oshkosh State Prison yesterday morning.
An inmate was speaking with the prison chaplain, when ...
Tue, August 09, 2011
By Jim Forsyth
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - A jury sentenced polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who heads a breakaway Mormon sect, to over a century ...
Tue, August 09, 2011
By Jim Forsyth
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who heads a breakaway Mormon sect, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday ...
Mon, August 08, 2011
MERRILL, Wis. (WSAU) – The state corrections department is looking for a Lincoln County jail inmate who walked away last week.
Alexander Schultz was jailed ...
Tue, August 02, 2011
Clark Gable III walked free from custody on Thursday (28Jul11) after representatives from California's Lipstick Bail Bonds bailed him out.
Upon his release ...
Mon, August 01, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A convicted smuggler of sperm whale teeth was sentenced in Boston federal court on Monday to 30 days behind bars for ...
Wed, July 27, 2011
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - In old movies, the inmate usually got a hacksaw blade secreted into his cell baked in a cake.
But in Texas ...
Wed, July 27, 2011
By James Nelson
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Police in Utah identified a mystery man on Tuesday who was arrested on minor charges and sat ...
Wed, July 27, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Edmonton Oilers goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin will be spending some time in jail after dropping an appeal of his 30-day sentence on ...
Tue, July 26, 2011
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - Casey Anthony is no longer in jail, but an Orlando man landed there on Tuesday for violating rules ...
Tue, July 26, 2011
By Matthew Bigg
MARIETTA, Georgia (Reuters) - A U.S. woman convicted of vehicular homicide after her 4-year-old son was killed in a hit-and-run accident ...
Mon, July 25, 2011
OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian police said gunman Anders Behring Breivik had said during interrogation that he was prepared to spend the rest of his life ...
Sat, July 23, 2011
By James Nelson
PROVO, Utah (Reuters) - A mystery man arrested on minor charges more than three weeks ago remains behind bars in Utah while ...
Tue, July 19, 2011
By Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - The cheapest room and board in Jefferson City, Missouri, over the weekend was at the county jail ...
Fri, July 15, 2011
By Colleen Jenkins
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla (Reuters) - A central Florida sheriff has announced a cost-saving measure that hits below the belt: no more free ...
Fri, July 08, 2011
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - Casey Anthony, the Florida woman acquitted this week of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in 2008, has rejected ...
Sat, July 02, 2011
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The last fifteen death row inmates in Illinois will live out their days in jail cells, instead of dying on a execution ...
Fri, July 01, 2011
By Ploy Ten Kate
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thais face jail if they campaign during Sunday's election on social media sites such as Twitter, with ...
Sat, June 25, 2011
By Chris Buckley and Maxim Duncan
BEIJING, Jun (Reuters) - One of China's most prominent dissidents, Hu Jia, was reunited with his family early ...
Sat, June 25, 2011
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court convicted former Trade Minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid in absentia on Saturday and sentenced him to 5 years in prison ...
Wed, June 22, 2011
By Erika Solomon
MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahrain sentenced eight prominent Shi'ite Muslim activists and opposition leaders to life in prison on Wednesday on charges ...
Wed, June 22, 2011
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – A Pence man is in jail pending charges on his 7th OWI offense.
42 year old Christopher Thomas was held on ...
Tue, June 21, 2011
By Tarek Amara
TUNIS, Jun (Reuters) - A Tunisian court sentenced former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in absentia on Monday to 35 years in ...
Fri, June 10, 2011
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was transferred from Moscow to a prison camp in an undisclosed location, his lawyers said on ...
Thu, June 09, 2011
MADISON -- Lawmakers voted Wednesday to end a controversial early release program in Wisconsin state prisons. Call it ‘earned release’, or ‘early release’, the program ...
Sat, June 04, 2011
By Patrick Werr
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court convicted former finance minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali in absentia on Saturday and sentenced him to 30 years ...
Sat, June 04, 2011
By Alex Dobuzinskis
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An ex-convict held for nearly two weeks as a suspect in the severe beating of a San Francisco ...
Thu, June 02, 2011
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - The mother of accused child killer Casey Anthony asked pointed questions about 2-year-old granddaughter Caylee's fate in ...
Fri, May 27, 2011
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - A Marshfield man will stay in jail for awhile, after he allegedly plotted to kill an abortion doctor in Madison.
At ...
Wed, May 25, 2011
FOND DU LAC, Wis (WSAU) Prosecutors recommend three-and-a-half years in jail for a former Fond du Lac city official who took part in an ...
Fri, May 13, 2011
Vincenzo Cannalire, Francesco Galdelli and Vanja Goffi were charged with fraud, forgery and possession of stolen goods after launching their GC Exclusive clothing line ...
Fri, May 13, 2011
The Mean Girls star was sentenced to serve 120 days behind bars and 480 hours of community service in April (11) for violating her ...
Wed, May 11, 2011
By Jill Serjeant
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan was sentenced on Wednesday to four months in jail after changing her plea and effectively ...
Mon, May 09, 2011
By Zach Howard
CONWAY, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A South Korean man and woman were each sentenced to more than a year in prison on Monday ...
Sun, May 08, 2011
By Muhanad Mohammed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Eighteen people, including an al Qaeda leader and a senior Iraqi counter-terrorism official, died in a battle between inmates ...
Fri, May 06, 2011
The catwalk star, who boasts a reported $19 million (£12 million) fortune, became suspicious of Michelle Knox-Brown after noticing her extravagant spending. It was ...
Wed, April 27, 2011
By Jonathan Allan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A graffiti artist whose work went on display this month at a prestigious Los Angeles museum was sentenced ...
Tue, April 26, 2011
The Mean Girls star was charged with probation violation by a judge in Los Angeles on Friday (22Apr11) and ordered back to jail for ...
Tue, April 26, 2011
By Hamid Shalizi
KABUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of insurgents who escaped from a jail in Afghanistan's volatile south through a tunnel dug by the ...
Fri, April 22, 2011
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Flashing her cleavage in a low-cut top, actress Lindsay Lohan said she felt "kind of numb" after being sentenced to 120 ...
Fri, April 22, 2011
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan was sentenced on Friday to 120 days in jail for violating her probation on a 2007 drunk driving ...
Wed, April 20, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. soldier accused of leaking secret documents that appeared on the WikiLeaks website was transferred to a Kansas military jail ...
Wed, April 20, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. soldier accused of leaking secret documents that appeared on the WikiLeaks website was transferred to a Kansas military jail ...
Tue, April 19, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration, under criticism for its treatment of the U.S. soldier accused of leaking secret documents that appeared on the ...
Tue, April 19, 2011
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis (WSAU) A man who was convicted of murder two weeks ago was found dead in his jail cell in Chippewa County ...
Wed, April 13, 2011
BOSTON (Reuters) - Despite more than $50 billion spent on prisons, more than 40 percent of offenders are back behind bars within three years of ...
Tue, April 12, 2011
CAIRO (Reuters) - The sentencing of a blogger to jail for criticizing Egypt's army has drawn a chorus of objections from rights groups, who ...
Fri, April 08, 2011
LONDON (Reuters) - British musician Pete Doherty, best known as a member of Babyshambles and The Libertines, was warned by a judge on Friday that ...
Thu, April 07, 2011
MARSHFIELD, Wis (WSAU) A Marshfield woman who was facing charges in a fatal drug overdose case pled guilty yesterday to reduced charges as part ...
Mon, April 04, 2011
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court said Monday that it would decide whether a jail policy of strip searching every individual arrested ...
Tue, March 29, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Three inmates and their loved ones were charged with attempting to smuggle drugs into a New Jersey jail on the pages of ...
Tue, March 29, 2011
By Laura L. Myers
TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - Five elderly peace activists, two of them Jesuit priests, were sentenced on Monday to prison terms of ...
Wed, March 23, 2011
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis (WSAU) A Wisconsin Rapids man will spend 3-years in prison for causing a fatal car crash last year while he was ...
Thu, March 17, 2011
The troubled TV star has been sentenced to nine months in prison after violating the terms of his probation for tax evasion.
Hatch was ...
Wed, March 16, 2011
The troubled star was convicted in 2006 for failing to pay taxes on the $1 million (GBP670,000) cash prize he won after appearing ...
Fri, March 11, 2011
The actor was expected to be hit with misdemeanour domestic violence charges this week (begs07Mar11), relating to accusations filed by his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva ...
Thu, March 10, 2011
By Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge on Thursday gave troubled actress Lindsay Lohan two more weeks to plead guilty to a charge ...
Mon, February 28, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A jailed former Societe Generale <SOGN.PA> trader convicted of theft of speed-trading computer code secrets was sentenced to 36 months ...
Mon, February 28, 2011
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman was sentenced on Monday to life plus 30 years in prison for her role in a 2003 bank robbery ...
Mon, February 28, 2011
Zachary Adam Chesser, 21, pleaded guilty in October (10) to urging viewers to attack producers of the programme by posting their home addresses online ...
Fri, February 25, 2011
The embattled star has pleaded not guilty to accusations she stole a necklace from the Kamofie & Company jewellery store in Venice, California last month ...
Thu, February 24, 2011
By Paul Bond
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A Virginia man who encouraged the murder of Matt Stone and Trey Parker over an episode of ...
Thu, February 24, 2011
WAUSAU, Wis (WSAU) A man convicted of a fifth drunk driving offense was sentenced yesterday in Marathon County court. 42-year-old Bryan Kanseno got three ...
Wed, February 23, 2011
By Jill Serjeant
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lindsay Lohan was warned on Wednesday that any plea bargain on her jewelry theft charge would involve jail ...
Thu, February 17, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that prospects for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp were "very, very low" given broad ...
Tue, February 15, 2011
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fresh off his weekend Grammy win, singer Bruno Mars pleaded guilty to cocaine possession on Wednesday but avoided jail in exchange ...
Mon, February 14, 2011
Darrow, who played restaurant owner Sonny Bunz in Martin Scorsese's 1990 mobster classic, pleaded guilty to taking part in an attempt to collect ...
Mon, February 14, 2011
The Mean Girls star entered a not guilty plea in court on Wednesday (09Feb11) amid allegations she stole a necklace from a jewellery store ...
Fri, February 11, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former lobbyist, the first person to plead guilty in the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal that rocked the U.S. capital, was ...
Thu, February 10, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man posing as a taxi driver who led police on a high-speed chase out of John F. Kennedy International Airport ...
Wed, February 09, 2011
PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona mother who tried to swap her 2-year-old daughter for a gun was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Wednesday ...
Tue, February 08, 2011
PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona man who admitted putting his 7-month-old son in the freezer while high on methamphetamine was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 ...
Tue, February 01, 2011
The XXX star was arrested in Hays County on Saturday (29Jan11) on three outstanding warrants for harassment after James turned over a series of ...
Sun, January 30, 2011
RACINE COUNTY, Wis. (WTAQ) - A teenager in Racine County will spend 30 days in jail for shooting his rifle at a pickup full of ...
Mon, January 17, 2011
Jack Jordan, who was convicted of stalking the Kill Bill actress in 2008, is facing fresh charges after allegedly violating a restraining order by ...
Thu, January 13, 2011
By Jim Forsyth
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (Reuters) - The attorney for former House leader Tom DeLay said on Thursday he is preparing a series of ...
Thu, January 13, 2011
MONROE COUNTY, Wis. (WTAQ) - Former state Representative Jeff Wood of Chippewa Falls has been sentenced to nine months in jail with three years of ...
Mon, January 10, 2011
In court on Thursday (06Jan11), Los Angeles judge Robert Perry declared there was no evidence to suggest Stern intended to break the law and ...
Fri, January 07, 2011
By Leigh Coleman
PEARL, Mississippi (Reuters) - Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour on Friday freed two sisters from life sentences in jail for an $11 armed ...
Thu, January 06, 2011
MARQUETTE COUNTY, Wis. (WTAQ) - Prosecutors will try to keep a former Marquette County jail sergeant out of prison, as part of a plea agreement ...
Fri, December 31, 2010
Starr is facing a lengthy prison term after he admitted embezzling $30 million (£20 million) from clients such as Uma Thurman, Martin Scorsese, and ...
Thu, December 30, 2010
By Noel Randewich
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California woman charged with leaking secrets about technology companies to two hedge funds in exchange for illegal ...
Fri, December 17, 2010
The Men In Black star, 79, was found sprawled on the floor of the Litchfield Bancorp building in his hometown of Salisbury, Connecticut clutching ...
Tue, December 14, 2010
By Peter Griffiths
LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a target of U.S. ire for releasing secret cables, returned to a London jail ...
Mon, December 13, 2010
Taylor Lautner (and his biceps) has the whole let's-adapt-a-young-adult-novel thing down pat. He's attached to star in the adaptation of Catherine Fisher ...
Fri, December 10, 2010
Tax evader extraordinaire, Wesley Snipes, told Larry King last night that he was nervous about going to jail on Thursday, but that he was ...
Tue, December 07, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Wesley Snipes said on Tuesday he was upset about going to prison but still hopes to avoid jail time on ...
Tue, December 07, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A woman who pleaded no contest to smashing a glass into actor Leonardo DiCaprio's face at a party five years ...
Tue, November 30, 2010
By Larry Fine
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The NFL's most vilified player three years ago for his involvement in a dogfighting ring, quarterback Michael ...
Tue, November 30, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man who was previously convicted of stalking actress Uma Thurman and harassing her family for two years was arrested and ...
Fri, November 26, 2010
UNDATED (WSAU) Officials in North Dakota said they did nothing wrong when they denied dental care for a prisoner who killed a Wisconsin man ...
Wed, November 24, 2010
PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona judge on Wednesday denied bail for rapper DMX, keeping him jailed on charges that he violated probation by using drugs ...
Thu, November 04, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. rapper Lil Wayne was released from jail in New York City on Thursday after serving eight months of a ...
Thu, October 28, 2010
The Quaids were wanted in Santa Barbara, California after they failed to show up for an arraignment on 18 October (10) to face felony ...
Wed, October 27, 2010
U.S. Secret Service agents arrested Maria Gabriela Perez on federal fraud charges in August (10) for allegedly stealing her clients' credit card information ...
Mon, October 25, 2010
The Mean Girls star has spent the summer (10) in and out of jail and rehab as she battles her drug demons.
She was ...
Fri, October 22, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan avoided more jail time on Friday and was ordered back to a drug and alcohol rehab program ...
Fri, October 22, 2010
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors Friday demanded that jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky be imprisoned for an additional six years if he is convicted ...
Fri, October 22, 2010
The troubled sportsman was caught driving erratically through his native Newcastle, north-east England, and pulled over by cops, who discovered he was four times ...
Thu, October 21, 2010
By Eriq Gardner
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A concert promoter who planned to host a "Welcome Back Party" to celebrate the release of T ...
Thu, October 21, 2010
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian-American released after two and a half years in a Tehran jail left Iran on Thursday en route to the United ...
Mon, October 18, 2010
MADISON (WSAU) The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide if 14 is too young to get a life prison sentence for murder. The justices have ...
Mon, October 18, 2010
Darryl McCauley, who worked as the funnyman's business manager for almost five years, was arrested in Massachusetts in December 2008, accused of stealing ...
Fri, October 15, 2010
By Matthew Bigg
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Grammy Award-winning rapper T.I. was sentenced on Friday to serve 11 months in jail for violating the terms ...
Mon, October 11, 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - British pop singer George Michael was released from prison on Monday after serving four weeks for driving under the influence of cannabis ...
Fri, October 08, 2010
The moviemaker pleaded guilty to two counts of making false statements to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers who were probing jailed Hollywood private ...
Thu, October 07, 2010
By Mariel Concepcion
NEW YORK (Billboard) - A hopeful Lil Wayne wrote a final letter from jail and posted it on his weezythanxyou.com blog ...
Tue, October 05, 2010
By Lionel Laurent
PARIS (Reuters) - Former Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel was sentenced to three years in jail by a Paris court on Tuesday ...
Mon, October 04, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mentally ill individuals who go through a specialized court system instead of the criminal justice system are less likely to ...
Mon, October 04, 2010
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WTAQ) - A former Fond du Lac official has started a one-year jail sentence for looking at child pornography from his ...
Sun, October 03, 2010
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WTAQ) - He head-butted a 13-year-old boy and punched an elementary school coach. That has earned Milton Summers 8 months in jail ...
Tue, September 28, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. rapper Kid Cudi has pleaded guilty to drug possession, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney said on Tuesday ...
Mon, September 27, 2010
The Mean Girls star returned to the Beverly Hills courthouse on Friday (24Sep10) to face the consequences of her actions, and she felt the ...
Mon, September 27, 2010
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox ordered the Mean Girls star be remanded in custody immediately after the hearing and denied the ...
Mon, September 27, 2010
Uh oh. Looks like Lindsay Lohan is going to jail. And she'll be staying there this time.
Reports from the court room state ...
Mon, September 27, 2010
The actress will return to a courthouse in Beverly Hills on Friday, when she'll be at the mercy of Superior Court Judge Elden ...
Thu, September 23, 2010
The actors were arrested and charged with interfering with police business following the altercation at the Stray Cat bar in Shreveport but the charges ...
Wed, September 22, 2010
After her incident of possessing of a tube of chapstick filled with cocaine that wasn't hers in a purse that wasn't hers ...
Tue, September 21, 2010
AMERY, Wis. (WTAQ) - A northwest Wisconsin man will spend a year in jail and 12 years on probation for causing a drunk driving crash ...
Fri, September 10, 2010
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Eighty-five prisoners escaped from a jail near the U.S. border on Friday, authorities and media said, the latest prison break ...
Thu, September 09, 2010
James Jimenez was accused of raiding the Spider-Man star's suite at the SoHo Grand Hotel in Manhattan while the actress was filming How ...
Mon, September 06, 2010
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WTAQ) - A former Fond du Lac city official will soon go to jail, after he exhausted his appeals on a ...
Fri, September 03, 2010
John Cavanagh mocked up eight pictures of the Harry Potter star by digitally placing her head onto another girl's body, before uploading them ...
Thu, September 02, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former television producer who tried to extort $2 million from talk show host David Letterman over his affairs with women ...
Wed, September 01, 2010
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Except for one minor issue, staffers at the Eau Claire County Jail did what they were supposed to do at ...
Sat, August 28, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paris Hilton was charged on Monday with cocaine possession after a high-profile arrest in Las Vegas during the weekend, but the ...
Thu, August 26, 2010
By Hakan Erdem
DARMSTADT, Germany (Reuters) - A German pop singer who confessed to knowingly exposing two men to the risk of HIV after finding ...
Thu, August 19, 2010
STEVENS POINT, Wis (WSAU) Portage County may outsource its cafeteria operations at the county jail. A committee is considering an agreement with C-M-B managed ...
Mon, August 16, 2010
By Prak Chan Thul
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Prosecutors of the first Khmer Rouge commander to face a U.N.-backed trial appealed on Monday ...
Mon, August 16, 2010
The Mean Girls star was sentenced to 90 days behind bars earlier this year (10) after she was found to have violated the terms ...
Fri, August 13, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lindsay Lohan's mother blamed her daughter's jail term on a judge that "played hardball" and defended the troubled star ...
Fri, August 06, 2010
Lawrence Salander, 61, pleaded guilty to 28 counts of grand larceny in March (10) after masterminding a massive fraud which saw him selling shares ...
Thu, August 05, 2010
The Mean Girls star was originally sentenced to 90 days in jail but she walked free on Monday morning (02Aug10) after serving just 13 ...
Thu, August 05, 2010
The Mean Girls actress was released from jail in California on Monday (02Aug10) after serving just 13 days of a 90-day sentence for violating ...
Wed, August 04, 2010
Lindsay Lohan is Released From Jail
After just 13 days in jail, our friend, national treasure and the person we wrap ribbons around buildings ...
Wed, August 04, 2010
The Mean Girls star, who was sentenced to 90 days behind bars for violating her probation relating to a 2007 DUI arrest, was freed ...
Tue, August 03, 2010
MOSCOW (Reuters) - One of Russia's most prominent rappers has been given a 10-day jail sentence for disturbing public order by mocking the police ...
Tue, August 03, 2010
By Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan court on Tuesday jailed a senior police officer with links with to the illegal drugs trade for ...
Mon, August 02, 2010
By Lisa Baertlein
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan was released from jail under the cover of darkness early Monday after serving 13 days ...
Mon, August 02, 2010
Lindsay Lohan Writing Album In Jail: Celeb Speak
Lindsay Lohan is expected to be released from jail either this Sunday or Monday. She will ...
Mon, August 02, 2010
The Mean Girls star is currently incarcerated at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California, where she is serving part of a 90-day ...
Mon, August 02, 2010
The Mean Girls star is currently incarcerated at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California, where she is serving part of a 90-day ...
Wed, July 21, 2010
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to revoke bail for actor Wesley Snipes and order him to ...
Thu, July 15, 2010
By Jill Serjeant
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A "scared" but resolute Lindsay Lohan began a 90-day jail sentence on Tuesday, trading nightclubs and Twitter messages ...
Thu, July 15, 2010
By Michael Christie
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military handed over its last prison in Iraq on Thursday, ending an ignominious chapter of the ...
Tue, July 13, 2010
BAYFIELD, Wis. (WTAQ) - The founder of a nationally-acclaimed music attraction near Bayfield has been released from jail – and he’s planning a comeback on ...
Wed, July 07, 2010
BEVERLY HILLS, Ca. (WTAQ) - Actress Lindsay Lohan is going to jail. Beverly Hills, California, Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel found Lohan in violation of ...
Tue, July 06, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lindsay Lohan is "scared to death" about going to jail, and is planning to appeal her 90-day sentence with a new ...
Thu, June 17, 2010
DODGE COUNTY, Wis. (WTAQ) - The Dodge County jail is one of the top locations in the Midwest for holding illegal immigrants awaiting deportation.
Since ...
Mon, June 14, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A judge on Monday sentenced a man to the maximum sentence of two years behind bars for stalking "American Idol" host ...
Fri, June 04, 2010
By Ellen Miller
GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado (Reuters) - If, as expected, Charlie Sheen serves jail time in the wealthy enclave of Aspen, Colorado, he will ...
Tue, June 01, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Charlie Sheen, star of hit TV sitcom "Two and a Half Men," is expected to enter a new plea of no ...
Fri, May 28, 2010
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WSAU) – State Representative Jeff Wood is a free man – at least for now.
Authorities released the Chippewa Falls independent from the ...
Fri, May 28, 2010
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WTAQ) - State Representative Jeff Wood is released from jail Friday about 6 a.m., after serving about two-thirds of his 45-day ...
Thu, May 20, 2010
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court in Chicago threw out a 30-day jail sentence and criminal contempt citation for a ...
Fri, May 14, 2010
HAVANA (Reuters) - A Cuban appeals court threw out a 20-month jail sentence for a dissident journalist on Friday and ordered her to pay a ...
Tue, May 11, 2010
WAUSAU, Wis (WSAU) A Marathon County judge has turned down a request for early release from a woman who was high on methamphetamine when ...
Fri, May 07, 2010
MONDOVI, Wis. (WTAQ) - A former senior at Mondovi High School will spend 10 days in jail next month, as part of her sentence for ...
Mon, May 03, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Michael Douglas on Monday called his son's five-year prison sentence for selling drugs "adequate" and said if he hadn ...
Fri, April 30, 2010
WAUSAU, Wis (WSAU) The woman known as "Penguin" was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison yesterday.
Rachel Morris backed her car into a police ...
Thu, April 29, 2010
WATERTOWN, Wis. (WTAQ) - A man from Watertown has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for trying to poison his ex-wife. 54-year-old Peter Zubke ...
Thu, April 29, 2010
WAUSAU, Wis (WSAU) Sheriffs deputies are investigating a fight from Tuesday morning in the Marathon County jail that left two inmates injured. It happened ...
Tue, April 27, 2010
PORTAGE, Wis. (WTAQ) - State Representative Jeff Wood reported to the Columbia County jail Monday night to begin his 45 day sentence for drunk driving ...
Tue, April 27, 2010
COLUMBIA COUNTY, Wis (WSAU) State Representative Jeff Wood began serving a 45-day jail term in Columbia County yesterday. He reported to the county jail ...
Mon, April 19, 2010
PORTAGE, Wis. (WTAQ) - State Representative Jeff Wood was sentenced to 45 days in jail Monday, and was fined over $1,600 for the most ...
Mon, April 19, 2010
PORTAGE, Wis. (WSAU) – A Columbia County judge has sentenced state Representative Jeff Wood to 45 days in jail and fined him over $1,600 ...
Fri, April 02, 2010
MANITOWOC COUNTY, Wis. (WTAQ) - A judge has ruled that jail officials can force a murder suspect to eat, drink liquids, and receive medical treatment ...
Thu, April 01, 2010
UNDATED (WSAU) A 46-year-old Plover man was sentenced yesterday to 20-years incarceration, followed by 20-years of extended supervision on state child pornography charges. Alfred ...
Wed, March 24, 2010
UNDATED (WRN) Criminal complaints have been filed against four women who are current or former state prison inmates, for filing fraudulent state homestead tax ...
Wed, March 24, 2010
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Former Milwaukee police union president Brad DeBraska has been sentenced to 6 months in jail for forgery and identity theft. A ...
Tue, March 23, 2010
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington Wizards three-time All-Star guard Gilbert Arenas should get three months in jail for bringing guns into the team ...
Tue, March 23, 2010
BEIJING (Reuters) - China should make it a criminal offence to give banned performance-enhancing substances to athletes and jail those found guilty, a leading sports ...
Fri, March 19, 2010
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis (WSAU) Inmates at the Wood County jail will pay some of the costs of their incarceration. The sheriffs department will begin ...
Tue, March 16, 2010
PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona judge sentenced rapper and actor DMX on Tuesday to six months in a Phoenix jail for violating his probation by ...
Tue, March 16, 2010
NEILLSVILLE, Wis (WSAU) A man involved in a deadly bar-room brawl was sentenced to five-years in prison yesterday.
37-year-old Tyler Meier was involved in ...
Mon, March 15, 2010
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Chicago insurance salesman was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Monday for making nude videos through hotel peepholes of ...
Mon, March 15, 2010
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – A town of Maine babysitter who violated the trust of parents when she left children home alone twice last spring will ...
Tue, March 09, 2010
CRANDON, Wis. (WSAU) – Police have caught an inmate who walked away from the Lincoln County jail last week.
Crandon police got a tip that ...
Mon, March 08, 2010
By Basil Katz
NEW YORK (Reuters) - After whirlwind goodbyes to fans, diminutive U.S. rapper Lil Wayne was sentenced to one year in jail ...
Sat, March 06, 2010
UNDATED (WSAU) Former Milwaukee County Supervisor Toni Clark will spend six months behind bars for filing a false campaign report. While she is in ...
Sat, March 06, 2010
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - Former Milwaukee County Supervisor Toni Clark will spend 6 months behind bars for filing a false campaign report. While she is ...
Mon, March 01, 2010
MARATHON COUNTY, Wis. (WTAQ) - A central Wisconsin county leader is blaming the state's drinking culture for skyrocketing jail populations. When Marathon County administrator ...
Fri, February 26, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Two U.S. missionaries will remain in jail in Haiti through at least Tuesday, while a judge takes testimony that is expected ...
Thu, February 25, 2010
WAUKESHA, Wis (WSAU) A teenager who used Facebook to blackmail his classmates for sex was sentenced to 15-years in prison yesterday. He could have ...
Wed, February 17, 2010
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A federal judge sentenced Kevin Trudeau to 30 days in jail on Wednesday after scolding the TV pitchman for inciting his fans ...
Fri, January 22, 2010
ORLANDO (Reuters) - Jim Thorpe, a triple winner on the PGA Tour, has been given a one-year jail sentence for failing to pay more than ...
Fri, January 08, 2010
Former New York Giants wide receiver and ex-Spartan Plaxico Burress won't be getting out of jail early. The state Department of Correctional Services ...
Sat, November 28, 2009
KENOSHA, Wis. (WRN) - A Kenosha man accused of killing his wife has apparently killed himself in the Kenosha County Jail. Jose Leon-Colon was found ...
Mon, November 23, 2009
By Jim Finkle
BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc's iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via ...
Wed, November 18, 2009
SPOONER, Wis (WSAU) A man who misled the nation about being a hero during the Minneapolis bridge collapse in 2007 might end up doing ...
Tue, November 17, 2009
By Grant McCool
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Frank DiPascali, swindler Bernard Madoff's right-hand man who admitted helping his boss run a decades-long multibillion dollar ...
Mon, November 16, 2009
By Matthew Goldstein
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The criminal prosecution of Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc programer charged this past summer with ...
Sat, November 14, 2009
LA CROSSE, Wis (WSAU) Not only did the federal judge sentence Martin Holtet of La Crosse to 18 months in prison, she also says ...
Wed, November 11, 2009
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WRN) - Two Wisconsin women will not go to jail for throwing a road sign off a freeway bridge during a protest ...
Tue, November 10, 2009
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak pleaded guilty to reduced charges on Tuesday and avoided jail time for her ...
Thu, November 05, 2009
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's parliament voted on Thursday to investigate allegations that the Baltic state hosted a secret CIA prison for al Qaeda suspects ...
Wed, November 04, 2009
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy was released from jail Wednesday after serving most of a 15 month sentence for taking ...
Tue, November 03, 2009
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis (WSAU) A Wood County man was sentenced to 40-years in prison for having sex with a 17-month-old baby. Jeremy Lund was ...
Thu, October 29, 2009
By Neil Hartnell
NASSAU (Reuters) - The Bahamian lawmaker who caused a mistrial in the John Travolta extortion case escaped a contempt of court citation ...
Thu, October 29, 2009
ANTIGO, Wis. (WSAU) – A man accused of endangering the safety of a missing Antigo girl has been freed from jail.
A Langlade County judge ...
Thu, October 29, 2009
PLOVER, Wis (WSAU) A Plover woman who was caught driving drunk without her pants on was sentenced to one-year in prison. 30-year-old Jessica Jackson ...
Wed, October 28, 2009
By Grant McCool
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Epic fraudster Bernard Madoff's longtime deputy Frank DiPascali must stay in jail at least until more is ...
Thu, October 22, 2009
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WSAU) – A Winnebago County judge sentenced a Fond du Lac man Thursday to five years in prison for killing a 14-year-old Schofield ...
Wed, October 14, 2009
LONDON (Reuters) - Director Roman Polanski is finishing work on his latest film from a Swiss jail where he is fighting extradition to the United ...
Tue, October 13, 2009
By Tom Brown
MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday reduced the prison term for a Cuban spy from a life sentence to ...
Sun, October 11, 2009
ZURICH (Reuters) - Director Roman Polanski is feeling depressed two weeks after his arrest in Switzerland to face U.S. extradition for a 1977 case ...
Wed, September 30, 2009
MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian prosecutor called on Wednesday for 26 Americans, all but one believed to be members of the CIA, to be jailed ...
Fri, September 25, 2009
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Allen Stanford, who is in jail awaiting trial on charges related to an alleged $7 billion fraud, was taken to a Texas ...
Fri, September 25, 2009
GREEN BAY, Wis (WSAU) The suspicious death of an inmate in the Brown County Jail remains under investigation.
Twenty-one-year-old James Brown reportedly suffered a ...
Tue, September 15, 2009
By Ahmed Rasheed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi reporter who shot to worldwide fame when he hurled his shoes at U.S. President George W ...
Fri, September 11, 2009
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prisoners started a fire during a riot at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, U.S. and Iraqi officials said, resulting in some ...
Tue, September 01, 2009
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Accused swindler Allen Stanford is back to a federal detention center after doctors diagnosed an aneurysm in his left leg that is ...
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