Mayor Jones Issues Statement on Justice Center Vote   Richmond, VA – Mayor Dwight C. Jones issued the following statement regarding the City Council vote approving the amendments to the 2009 Community Based Corrections Plan and Planning Study.  Tonight’s vote also requests reimbursement funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia for all eligible costs relating to […]

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A repentant robber who held up a suburban store returned a day later to apologize to the woman he robbed. And a surveillance camera was rolling as it all played out. The robbery happened at a Dunkin Doughnuts in suburban Chicago. Alex Holmes is in custody, charged with robbery. When coming back to the store […]

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A judge in Ohio has sentenced a woman to 15 days in jail for choking a 71-year-old Walmart greeter who asked to see a receipt as the woman left the store. Judge Lisa Locke Graves sentenced Toni Duncan, 49, for what she calls the “absolutely reprehensible” attack. Duncan was sentenced after pleading no contest and […]

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Rapper T.I. was released Thursday from an Atlanta halfway house after spending about 10 months in federal prison on a probation violation, officials said. The Grammy-winning artist, whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., was released early in the morning, said Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke. T.I.’s manager, Jason Geter, said the rapper […]

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The Long Island woman accused of inciting a fight between her 12-year-old daughter and another child insists she’s not the monster mom depicted in shocking video of the fight. “I’m not the bad person they’re making me out to be,” Daphne Melin, 32, said Tuesday. “My daughter’s been cyber-bullied. They called her whore, b*tch and […]

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NFL player and reality TV star, Terrell Owens, who’s already a “baby daddy” several times over, is two months late on child support payments to one of his baby mamas…and she wants him tossed in jail. Melanie Paige Smith, who has a 5-year-old daughter with Terrell “T.O.” Owens, has filed a petition begging an Atlanta […]

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Actor Daniel Baldwin’s wife, Joanne Baldwin, promised a judge on Wednesday that she would begin Alcoholics Anonymous meetings just after she finishes a 10-day sentence for violating probation on a drunken driving conviction. “Obviously, alcohol has not been your friend,” Judge Bruce Shepley told Joanne Baldwin, who was jailed July 13 after her husband reported […]

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After serving seven months in an Arizona jail, rapper DMX was released Tuesday July 19th. According to BET.com and allhiphop.com, X was greeted by a small group of family and friends before heading to a visit with his probation officer. DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was imprisoned again in December of 2010 for […]

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Rapper Ja Rule, who’s currently serving two years in jail on a weapons conviction, has been sentenced to 28 months in a federal prison for tax evasion, according to eonline.com. U.S. Magistrate Judge Patty Shwartz handed down the jail term stemming from Ja Rule’s guilty plea in March to three counts of failing to file […]

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Robert Adams thought someone was playing a trick when he saw a plastic bag filled with money lying on the ground in a surburban Chicago strip mall. Adams said the bag he found outside a Chase Bank was filled with lots of bills — a little more than $17,000, as police later determined. “At the […]

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The rapper known as DMX will have to spend at least an extra week in an Arizona state prison for failing a drug test. DMX (real name Earl Simmons), 40, was sentenced to 1 year in prison in December after his probation was revoked for failing to submit to drug testing and driving on a […]

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Casey Anthony was sentenced to four years in jail on four counts of lying to police. The sentence will include the time served. Casey Anthony received the maximum sentence of 1 year in jail and a $1,000 fine for each of the four charges she was convicted of Tuesday. After time served and time off […]