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3 inmates escape from northwest Arizona prison

Police were using helicopters and dogs Saturday to search for three convicted murderers who escaped from a northwest Arizona prison, kidnapped two semi-truck drivers at gunpoint and used the big rig to flee.

PIC: See Lindsay Lohan's Depressing Jail Cell

Her temporary new 12-by-8 home is in the same facility that once housed Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie and Khloe Kardashian

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Lohan due to report to jail today

Lindsay Lohan is scheduled to start her 90-day jail sentence Tuesday, but the star's last moments of freedom may not be captured by cameras.

Senh: I refuse to make this the main story, even though it's on the front page of every newspaper.

Court upholds Wesley Snipes' sentence

A federal appeals court has denied actor Wesley Snipes' claim that his three-year prison sentence for tax evasion was "unreasonable."

Senh: How is it that Wesley Snipes is getting jail time and Nicolas Cage is not. Both were being investigated by the IRS for tax evasion, and both are million dollar checks to the courts to pay off their owed taxes.

Fraud gets ex-Obama, Clinton fundraiser 12 years

A wealthy Manhattan investment banker and former top Democratic fundraiser was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison for defrauding banks of $292 million, some of which he donated to politicians including Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Al Gore.

Distraught Lindsay Lohan sentenced to 90 days jail

A distraught Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Tuesday after a judge ruled that she had violated her probation by missing a string of alcohol education classes imposed for a 2007 drunk driving arrest.

Senh: I haven't seen pictures of Lindsay Lohan in a while, but it looks like she got work done on her lips.

Lindsay Could Do Time

Actress Lindsay Lohan is scheduled to appear Tuesday in a courtroom for a probation revocation hearing that could end with her either headed for jail or her next movie role.

Senh: The never-ending saga of Lindsay Lohan. I wonder when she's gonna eventually run out of money and can't party anymore.

NY judge frees Japanese eating champ after fracas

Japanese eating champion Takeru Kobayashi (tah-KEH'-roo koh-bah-YAH'-shee) has been freed after a night in a New York jail over a hot dog scuffle.

Kenyan inmates win right to vote

In a landmark ruling a Kenya court rules that prisoners will be allowed to vote in the referendum on a new constitution.

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California Prison Overcrowding: Supreme Court To Hear California Prison-Overcrowding Case

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an appeal from California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and decide whether the state can be forced to release 46,000 inmates -- more than one-fourth of its prison population -- to relieve overcrowding.

The court's intervention is a victory for the governor and state prison officials, and it puts a judicial order on hold, at least until this fall.

At issue is whether federal judges have the power to order the release of state prisoners as a necessary means of curing a constitutional violation.

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