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Actor Wesley Snipes is asking the federal judge who ordered him to report to prison by Dec. 9th, to let him put off the start of his three year sentence on tax charges until Jan. 6th. In an “Emergency Motion To Stay Self Surrender” filed Friday, Snipes argues that as the father of four children, aged 4 to 9, he shouldn’t be forced to turn himself in “in the middle of the holiday season.”

Actor Wesley Snipes was ordered Wednesday to voluntarily surrender at a federal prison in Pennsylvania next week to start his three-year sentence for failing to pay taxes.

A Somali man who admitted his role in an attack on a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of Africa was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison under an agreement that could return him to court to testify against five countrymen accused in the attack.

Attorneys for Wesley Snipes are asking a judge to extend the actor's bail as he prepares for a possible appeal of his three-year prison sentence for a tax conviction.

A angular inmate is back in custody after squeezing between his cell bars and walking away from jail.

Wesley Snipes was ordered on Friday to start serving a three-year prison sentence for a felony tax conviction after a Florida judge rejected his bid for a new trial.

The Bronx woman whose drunk-driving crash killed an 11-year-old girl was sentenced today to four to 12 years in prison. Carmen Huertas will receive a minimum four behind bars before being eligible for parole.

A border official says actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, remain in a Canadian jail despite being granted a release from custody last week after they were arrested on outstanding warrants in California.

An elderly Oklahoma man landed himself in jail after using bolt cutters to break his prized pooch from the pound.

Actress Linsday Lohan avoided an extended stay in county jail last month when a judge's ruling to keep her behind bars without bail on a misdemeanor probation violation was overturned on appeal.