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Actress Lindsay Lohan was ordered Tuesday to serve 90 days in jail for missing alcohol counseling sessions in violation of her probation. The judge also ordered Lohan to spend 90 days in a drug and alcohol rehab program after her jail term is completed. The program will be inpatient. Judge Marsha Revel ruled that Lohan [...]

Police said Wednesday they are reopening an investigation into an Oregon massage therapist’s allegations that former Vice President Al Gore groped her at an upscale hotel in 2006. In a brief statement, the Portland Police Bureau did not say why it was reopening the investigation. Police earlier said they considered the case closed because there [...]

Authorities in southern California said the strong smell of marijuana helped them discover $45 million worth of drugs in the back of a tractor-trailer they had pulled over for a traffic violation. Deputies stopped the truck Wednesday morning, then opened the trailer after finding problems with the paperwork for the load, the San Bernardino County [...]

A Southern California bank robber dubbed the “geezer bandit” has struck again, possibly knocking off his 11th bank, the FBI said. The suspect held up a Bank of America branch in Temecula on Thursday. “During (the) robbery, the robber approached the victim teller and presented a demand note for cash,” a statement from the FBI [...]

A superior court judge in Lima, Peru, upheld the confession and incarceration of Joran van der Sloot in connection with the killing of Stefany Flores, officials said. On Friday, Judge Wilder Casique Alvizuri declared as “unfounded” van der Sloot’s habeas corpus claim that his constitutional rights were violated at the time of the confession because [...]

Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was indicted Wednesday by a suburban New York grand jury on charges of third-degree rape and patronizing a prostitute. The indictment follows his May 6 arrest at a Holiday Inn in Ramapo, N.Y., where prosecutors say he paid a 16-year-old girl $300 to have sex with him. The [...]

Joran van der Sloot, the longtime main suspect in the Natalie Holloway disappearance in Aruba in 2005, confessed earlier this month to the May 30 killing of Stefany Flores in Peru. Van der Sloot is now retracting his confession and says it was obtained under false pretenses. Specifically, van der Sloot claims he was “intimidated” [...]

Fabio Enrique Ochoa-Vasco helped transport over 5 tons of Columbian cocaine into the United States, beginning in the 1970’s. Ochoa was sentenced last week to 17 1/2 years in prison for conspiring to smuggle 5 tons of cocaine between 1978 and his surrender in January 2009. It could have been worse. Prosecutors agreed to a [...]

Domestic violence can be seen in homes all over the world. Studies suggest that domestic violence affects around 10% of families in the United States. Celebrities, often worshiped and looked up to as role models, are no strangers to domestic violence. Let’s recap a few recent cases of domestic violence involving celebrities. In order to [...]