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U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 3, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The family of R&B singer Sean Levert wants the FBI to look into his death after a jail medical emergency. His cousin, Michael Gibson, said Levert never had any outburst such as the type described by Kevin McDonough, warden at the Cuyahoga County jail... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 28, 2007 @ 1:49pm neoform

Yahoo News -- An officer who ordered two women to put on a "sex show" in a jail cell will be fired. Norberto Cappas, 32, was found guilty by a police tribunal of conduct unbecoming an officer and lying during a departmental investigation, the department said Tuesday.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 23, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

FOX News -- Beleaguered and disbarred former District Attorney Mike Nifong, who prosecuted the Duke University lacrosse rape case, could wind up in jail if a motion is granted asking that criminal charges be filed against him. The three Duke lacrosse players false.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 19, 2007 @ 11:43am neoform

FOX News -- A man tried to extort $25,000 from a gas station owner by claiming he was a federal agent who had information linking the businessman to Al Qaeda and threatening to jail him, prosecutors said Friday. George Tabora, 44, was charged with attempted extort.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 24, 2007 @ 10:40am neoform

ABC News -- Blowing his nose and wiping away tears, the multimillionaire founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" video empire pleaded guilty to contempt of court Monday and was sentenced to 35 days in jail. Joe Francis, who was sued by seven women who were minors when fi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 12, 2007 @ 11:53pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A jail guard has been suspended after allegedly thumping an inmate with a Bible. James Lee Sheppard, 56, has been charged with two gross misdemeanors for allegedly swatting a Blue Earth County Jail inmate with the book, grabbing him by the throat and s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 3:35pm mrmdc

St. Petersburg Times -- First, police say, a 21-year-old woman was raped at Gasparilla. Then, she was handcuffed and jailed - for two nights and two days... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 27, 2006 @ 9:30am mrmdc

CBS News -- An East Tennessee county that has beamed live 24-hour video from its jail on the Internet for nearly six years may nix the practice following complaints of harassment and security concerns... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Oct 19, 2006 @ 3:07pm neoform

MSNBC -- We have lived as if in a trance. We have lived as people in fear. And now our rights and our freedoms in peril we slowly awaken to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 31, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A $215 ticket for failing to stop at a stop sign in Redwood City wound up costing Andrew Bamberg a year in jail. The 42-year-old former car salesman was sentenced in San Mateo County Superior Court to a year in the county jail after he was convicted of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 15, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- While the public clamors for safer streets and a crackdown on quality-of-life crimes, San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey is quietly allowing scores of drug users and petty thieves to walk out of jail early so they don't have to sleep on the floor... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 11:31am neoform

FOX News -- A city councilman fed up with crime told a teenager with a record that goes back two years to "go to jail or the cemetery," prompting the young man's mother to complain that the letter was threatening. Was the letter from Councilman Michael Polensek a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 9, 2007 @ 5:52pm neoform

Washington Post -- Ryan Kenty, 20, and his brother Brandon, still a sophomore in high school, plan to drive their mother to jail Monday morning before heading back to her rented apartment to move the rest of her belongings into storage. Their mom, Elisa Kelly, and her ex.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:32am neoform

Yahoo News -- If her invention had been real, she might have made big bucks. Instead, she gets coal in her stocking — and time behind bars. Kristine Mylonakis, 45, was accused of fleecing more than 70 investors out of more than $56,000 by claiming she made cylindri.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 11:28am neoform

FOX News -- Joey Buttafuoco, whose 17-year-old lover shot his wife in the face more than a decade ago, was released from jail Saturday after serving three months of a one-year sentence for illegally possessing ammunition, authorities said. Buttafuoco, 50, walked o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 6, 2007 @ 3:00am neoform

ABC News -- Just days after narrowly avoiding jail time, the multimillionaire founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" videos was again ordered to jail Wednesday for contempt of court. Joe Francis, 34, has until noon Thursday to turn himself in to authorities, The News He.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 12:16am neoform

Yahoo News -- A statutory rape case against a 42-year-old charged as a man took on a different look after a jail shower revealed the defendant is actually a woman. The female victim and several prisoners at the Hamilton County Jail were among those surprised to disc.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 27, 2007 @ 1:20am neoform

FOX News -- Chaz Higgs was freed on bail Monday from the county jail where he has been jailed since September on charges that he killed his wife, former Nevada Controller Kathy Augustine. Higgs was quickly escorted to a waiting car by five deputies and his attorne.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 11:15pm neoform

FOX News -- Two New York Police Department detectives surrendered Monday in the killing of an unarmed groom on his wedding day, and face a charge that would require jail time if they are convicted. The eight-count indictment charges Detectives Michael Oliver, who.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Feb 3, 2007 @ 2:18am neoform

CNN -- A federal jury convicted a former Coca-Cola secretary Friday of conspiring to steal trade secrets from the world's largest beverage maker in an effort to sell them to rival Pepsi... Read More