A judge has sentenced "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis to time served and a year of probation for filing false income tax returns. ...more

November 7, 2009

Three key players in the troubled world of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith have been ordered to stand trial after a hearing that plumbed the drug-fueled depths of her final years and the alleged roles of her boyfriend and two doctors in feeding her addiction to prescription drugs. ...more

October 31, 2009

and confidence in a full recovery. ...more

March 17, 2009

Former Tampa resident Joel Rush, a 27-year-old software salesman and male model, came in second place on the season finale of the ABC reality show "True Beauty" Monday night in a competition that judged character as well as physical beauty. ...more

February 24, 2009

Lillo Brancato, who played a bumbling aspiring mobster on "The Sopranos," was cleared Monday in New York of second-degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty policeman. ...more

December 23, 2008

A former administrative law judge who unsuccessfully sued a dry cleaner for $54 million over a pair of lost pants tried to convince an appeals panel Wednesday that he deserves the money because he is a fraud victim. ...more

October 23, 2008

The children of Coretta Scott King and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. faced off in an Atlanta courtroom Tuesday in a dispute over their mother's personal papers that could derail a lucrative book deal. ...more

October 15, 2008

Britney Spears tells OK! magazine she's focused on family life these days, looking forward to her two sons meeting their new cousin, daughter of her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears. ...more

August 14, 2008

Fall is full for Mark Wahlberg. The 37-year-old actor-producer has upcoming productions in film, television - and his own family. ...more

August 7, 2008

The fees that cell phone carriers charge customers who break service contracts took a big hit in a California courtroom when a judge said such charges by Sprint Nextel Corp. likely violate state law. ...more

July 30, 2008