Comedian pleads no contest to gun charge
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Katt Williams has been sentenced to three years' probation after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed firearm.
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Prosecutors declined Friday to charge Ryan O'Neal for firing what the actor called a warning shot during a brawl with his son this year.
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Chicago Bears' defensive tackle Terry "Tank" Johnson was charged Thursday with possession of a firearm without proper identification after police said they found six guns at his Gurnee home.
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Enough with The Joke, John Kerry says. The Massachusetts senator and former Democratic presidential nominee said Wednesday night that it's time to move on from his botched attempt at humor before the midterm election.
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has pleaded not guilty to 166 criminal charges and a trial was tentatively set for December 1. not speak at his arraignment in federal court on Friday, nor as he left the Orlando courthouse.
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Mel Gibson has met terms of his no-contest plea to misdemeanor drunken driving after his notorious 2006 arrest in which he made derogatory comments about Jews, a judge found Wednesday. Gibson will remain on probation for about 18 more months, but won't have report at Superior Court again after Judge Lawrence Mira approved his progress.
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Former Maryland basketball star Lonny Baxter pleas guilty Thursday to illegally shipping guns through Federal Express, his second guilty plea in less than a year for gun-related offenses.
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Actor Wesley Snipes pleaded  not guilty on Friday to charges he illegally claimed millions  of dollars in tax refunds and was allowed to quickly return to  an African movie set, U.S. prosecutors.
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No criminal charges will be filed in the well-publicized scuffle between Kid Rock and Tommy Lee at the MTV Video Music Awards, the Clark County district attorney said Tuesday.
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A U.S. soldier pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of killing Iraqis and trying to cover it up by planting weapons on their bodies.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - A Texas man scheduled to be executed on Tuesday wants to die laughing.
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By MARIA ARMENTAL  Journal Staff Writer  HOPKINTON   -   A man who faced six felony charges and thousands of dollars in fines for running an unlicensed scrap yard on property off Woodville-Alton Road pleaded no contest Tuesday to a charge of storing hazardous waste without a permit.
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TORONTO (CP) - A New Brunswick man who was allegedly planning a shooting spree before it was thwarted by a friendly dog was sent back to jail Friday after prosecutors refused to let him plead guilty to weapons charges.
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Chicago Bears' defensive tackle Tank Johnson was charged Thursday with not having a gun owner identification card after six firearms were found at his Gurnee home.
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A veteran who disputed Democratic  presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam war record  acknowledged on Sunday he had no proof to back his charge that  Kerry fabricated the reports of enemy fire that won him two  medals.
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Vancouver Canucks star Todd Bertuzzi has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault causing bodily harm. The plea was entered during a brief arraignment hearing Thursday morning in a Vancouver court room.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Indonesia Bureau Chief Haseenah Koyakutty. JAKARTA : Indonesia&#39;s top terror suspect Abu Bakar Bashir has dismissed his trial as a joke, saying that the only reason he is being detained