Grammy Award winning singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison on Monday, and an additional three months in home confinement for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings. Hill pleaded guilty last year in the case. Hill explained that she always meant to eventually pay the taxes but was unable to during the period when she dropped out of the music business.
24-year-old Buford Rogers, of Montevideo Minnesota, was arrested on Friday, and charged with one count of possession of contained Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and firearms. He is charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
udge Belvin Perry, who presided over the Casey Anthony trial, said on Monday's "Today" show that he believed there was enough evidence to convict her.
State Sen. John Sampson was arrested by the FBI on Monday morning, charged with embezzling $440,000 between 1998 and 2008, funneling some of the cash into his unsuccessful 2005 campaign to become Brooklyn district attorney. He also allegedly used a mole in the federal prosecutor's office to try and identify witnesses against him so he could arrange to "take them out," reports said.
