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The lawyer for two American hikers is holding out hope that Tehran will show leniency toward his clients who have been sentenced to eight years in prison.

The two U.S. hikers detained for two grueling years in Iran on spying charges have been sentenced to eight years in prison, state-run TV reported Saturday. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer each received five years for espionage -- specifically "cooperating with the American intelligence service" -- and three years for illegal entry, the IRINN reported, quoting an "informed" judiciary source.

Shane Sparks is out of slick moves. The hip-hop choreographer who used to showcase his talents on So You Think You Can Dance pleaded no contest today to one felony count of unlawful intercourse with a minor under the age of 16 and was sentenced to 270 days in jail.

Casey Anthony, the Florida woman recently acquitted of murder in the death of daughter Caylee Anthony, can't completely come and go as she pleases just yet.

US polygamist leader Warren Jeffs is sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting two underage followers he took as brides.

If you've seen the 1983 movie "WarGames," in which a young Matthew Broderick accidentally uses computers to bring the world to the edge of "global thermonuclear war," then you have a pretty good idea what hackers and security researchers are super-concerned about these days -- in real life.

The lawyer for two Americans jailed in Iran on charges of espionage says his clients could be released after a court hearing slated for Sunday.

Colorful former Gov. Edwin Edwards, 83, on Friday married a 32-year-old who wrote him during his prison sentence for bribery and extortion.

A convicted ax murderer, on Delaware's death row for some 18 years, was executed on Friday at the state prison in Smyrna.

A woman who was arrested after her 4-year-old son was struck and killed by a van as they were jaywalking across a busy street was spared a prison sentence Tuesday following an outcry over her prosecution....