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A dump-all book by O.J.'s last lady friend is making the rounds. Chris tine Prody, the nubile blond wait ress who took up where his murdered blond wife, Nicole, left off, is now looking to rat on 13 years of cocaine, pregnancy, abuse, jealousy, possessiveness, manipulation, rage. And those are just her nicer topics. She writes he controlled her, lured her in, and when she lived with him and no longer maintained her own work schedule, repeatedly kicked her out when she had no place to go and no income. Like pushing her out of a car at 11 p.m....

On his 100th day in office, Barack Obama enjoys high job approval ratings, no matter what poll you consult. But if a new survey by the New York Times is accurate, the president and some of his policies are significantly less popular with white Americans than with black Americans, and his sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are.

LAS VEGAS — Claiming O.J. Simpson was dealt an injustice, an effort is under way to solicit money for the former football star's appeal of his Nevada conviction and prison sentence on kidnapping and armed robbery charges. Barrett Prody, the brother of Simpson's former girlfriend, created a nonprofit corporation and an Internet Web site, the Society Against Legal Injustice Inc., to raise money for Simpson.

A key witness in O.J. Simpson's Las Vegas trial acknowledged to a Nevada investigator that the former NFL star paid him off, the investigator told a judge in Santa Monica this morning. The investigator from the Clark County district attorney's office said Alfred Beardsley admitted that Simpson gave him his Hall of Fame ring in exchange for altering his testimony to help the defenseI asked what did you get to change your testimony," said Bill Falkner, who worked with prosecutors building the armed robbery and kidnapping case against Simpson. The answer, he said, was the Hall of Fame ring. The...

America was a different country in 1995, when the most-watched murder trial of the 20th century saw an overwhelmingly black jury find O J Simpson innocent of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. It seemed like delayed justice when the former footballer was sentenced to a minimum of nine years' jail yesterday for his role in an armed raid on a Las Vegas hotel room in 2007, during which two dealers were robbed of sports memorabilia. There was none of the rancour that accompanied the murder acquittal or the civil trial, when a predominantly white jury...

LAS VEGAS – O.J. Simpson is headed to prison for at least nine years, but a prosecutor says the former football star could have spent less time behind bars if he had accepted a plea deal before he was convicted. Clark County District Attorney David Roger said Simpson was offered a deal for less prison time than the nine- to 33-year prison terms the graying former football star was sentenced to on Friday for kidnapping and assaulting two sports memorabilia dealers with a deadly weapon. "Mr. Simpson wanted something just short of a public apology," Roger said. "We didn't think...

LAS VEGAS – A weary and beaten-looking O.J. Simpson was put away Friday for at least nine years — and perhaps the rest of his life — for an armed robbery in a hotel room, bringing a measure of satisfaction to those who believed the football star got away with murder more than a decade ago. The 61-year-old Hall of Famer listened stone-faced, his wrists in shackles, as Judge Jackie Glass pronounced the sentence — 33 years behind bars with eligibility for parole after less than a third of that. Moments before, Simpson made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency,...

O.J. sentenced to as much as 33 years for robbery Dec 5 03:38 PM US/Eastern By KEN RITTER LAS VEGAS (AP) - A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as much as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity." The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced when Judge Jackie Glass quickly rattled off his punishment soon after he made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, choking back tears as he told her: "I didn't want to steal anything from anyone....

<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) - A broken O.J. Simpson has been sentenced to at least 15 years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel armed robbery by a judge who rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity."</p>

O.J. Simpson is sentenced 15 years.

O.J. Simpson is live on Fox News right now..........about to be sentenced for the Vegas incident.........

LAS VEGAS (AP) - O.J. Simpson is going to prison; the question is for how long. The former football star who walked away a free man after a celebrated murder trial was due to learn Friday how much time he'll spend in a Nevada state prison for a botched attempt to recover sports mementoes and personal items from two collectibles peddlers. Neither Simpson, who was acquitted of the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife and her friend in Los Angeles, nor his co-defendant and former golfing buddy, Clarence "C.J. Stewart, testified at trial. They were convicted Oct. 3 of 12 criminal...

A judge in Las Vegas has rejected O.J. Simpson's bid for a new trial in the robbery of two sports memorabilia collectors. Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass said Friday theissues raised by lawyers for Simpson and co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart don't merit a second trial. SNIP Stewart's lawyer, Brent Bryson, alleged misconduct by the jury foreman.

In 1995 many African-Americans saw OJ Simpson as an innocent man persecuted because of the colour of his skin. This time, he is unlikely to receive similar sympathy. Thirteen years to the day of his sensational acquittal on charges of double murder, the conviction of OJ Simpson for conspiracy to kidnap and armed robbery looks unlikely to have the same dramatic impact. ____________________________________________ But, will it provide the same cultural flashpoint that drew huge crowds to the court and polarised black and white American back in 1995? This time, the court room was barely half full for most of the...

WHEN IT WAS REVEALED that Lionel Cryer, the male juror who flashed O. J. Simpson a black-power salute right after the verdict in the criminal trial, was once a member of the Black Panther Party, the Simpson case finally found its context. That black fist called up a host of Sixties memories, among them the ghostly voice of criminal-hero Eldridge Cleaver, who taunted the white world in his autobiography, Soul on Ice: "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist. . . . My answer to all such things lurking in their...

O.J. Simpson's sister Carmelita Durio lies on the floor after collapsed following a verdict of guilty on all counts is read following Simpson's trial at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. The verdict comes 13 years to the day after Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman

Ronald Goldman's father and sister watched the verdict on live TV with a mix of joy and tears, a spokesman says. By Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer 12:45 PM PDT, October 4, 2008 LAS VEGAS -- The father and sister of Ronald Goldman greeted O.J. Simpson's conviction here on armed robbery and kidnapping charges with tears, laughter and a firm belief that their persistent efforts to collect a civil judgment from the former NFL star paid off, a family spokesman said this morning. "It was the civil suit that brought him down," the representative quoted Goldman's father, Fred,...

LAS VEGAS - Jurors in the O.J. Simpson trial had dinner delivered Friday so they could continue deliberating the fate of the former football star and a co-defendant, accused of robbing two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a casino hotel room. "They have requested to continue deliberating tonight, and we are bringing in dinner to them,'' court spokesman Michael Sommermeyer said in the late afternoon. The 61-year-old former football star and a golfing buddy, Clarence "C.J.'' Stewart each face five years to life in prison if convicted of kidnapping, or mandatory prison time if convicted of armed robbery.

Jury finds O.J. Simpson guilty on all charges in armed robbery and kidnapping trial in Las Vegas; former football star could spend the rest of his life in prison.