Who says doing time has to be a bad experience? The new Halden Fengsel prison in Norway is a criminal's dream: It boasts running trails, rock climbing, a recording studio, and offers cooking courses set in a sleek, Ikea-like facility.
A death row inmate, when given the choice between execution by lethal injection or firing squad, wants the latter. He is one of four condemned prisoners in Utah who have asked for the option. State politicians fear a spectacle.
The guy who hacked Sarah Palin's email is in court and could be in some pretty deep shit. Daughter Bristol took the stand yesterday to talk about Fox News and crazy Alaska boys and losing her cellphone. It's a tear-jerker.
If there is one thing tabloid sex fiend columnist Andrea Peyser hates, it is everything good in the human soul. Andrea's gripe today: someone was shown mercy. This is unfair to the bloodthirsty, such as Andrea Peyser!
We mentioned Lena recently, after he threatened the US government over a CIA rendition case if it went after the Pope. The Washington Post profiled him, and it turns out he wears flannels and doesn't clip his fingernails. Williamsburger?
The case involving secret Boy Scouts "perversion files" will now move to punitive damages, after the group was ordered yesterday to pay an Oregon man $1.4 million for sexual abuse by a Scoutmaster in the 1980s. [AP, image]
Conservative activist/performance artist James O'Keefe and his gang-that-couldn't-tamper-straight will plead guilty to reduced charges.
A Philadelphia woman is on trial for offering three-ways and anal sex for tickets to an undercover cop who she met through Craigslist. The officer who set up the sting was hunting for "blondes" on the site.
Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene got sentenced to 90 days; rapper T.I., though, is free.
A lawyer representing more than 70 former clients of Bernie Madoff wants to force the Ponzi schemer into bankruptcy. Meanwhile, federal marshals have seized his $9 million Palm Beach home and a $2 million yacht.
There is a warrant out for the muff-diving drunk-driving star of I Know Who Killed Me Lindsay Lohan. The warrant was issued by the LAPD last night but need Lohan be worried?
After pleading guilty to his $50 billion fraud, Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff is headed for jail. Which jail? Probably the federal prison in Otisville, N.Y., where he'll have the chance to meet new friends!
Developing: George, the half-brother of Barack Obama, was arrested in Nairobi for possession of illegal drugs. The dude had one joint!
We may be isolated in the cold of Park City, but at least we can reasonably assume a relatively low risk of shootings, stabbings and other moviegoing carnage plaguing other parts of the country.
Like the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush, a Philadelphia moviegoer earned instant folk-hero status on Christmas by shooting a viewer who wouldn't shut up during The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Someone stole $6 from MSNBC's Mika Brzezinkski, outside her fancy Washington DC hotel. It was such a terrible mugging that Joe Scarborough complained about it, to the mayor, on the TV!
It seemed like a good idea at the time, we suppose: Sneak celebrities' medical records to the National Enquirer, collect $4,700 and quietly go back to your day job knowing you helped a venerable journalistic institution uphold its mission of transparency and insight into the fraught conditions of Britney Spears,…
We thought the cult of Scarface — from the quaint, Capone-influenced 1932 original to the salty, bloody 1983 remake and ultimately the 2006 video game — might have struck its apex with the recent publication of the must-read survey Scarface Nation:The Ultimate Gangster Movie and How It Changed America. But another,…
We knew George Lucas had a taste for franchise-rape, but our relatively proscribed imaginations prevented us from conjuring the horror of Lucas and accomplice Steven Spielberg forcibly tag-teaming Indiana Jones not once, not twice, but three times in 30 minutes. But that's what South Park is for, we guess, where the…
