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A memorabilia dealer who claims he suffered four heart attacks after O.J. Simpson robbed him at gunpoint is suing the imprisoned NFL star in civil court in Las Vegas for assault, battery and other charges. In a complaint filed Friday in Clark County District Court, Bruce Fromong’s attorney asked for a jury trial to collect damages of at least $30,000 each from Simpson and six other men involved in a September 2007 confrontation in a low-rent casino hotel room. Fromong and another dealer went to the meeting at the Palace Station casino prepared to sell collectibles worth $100,000, including footballs...

Lawyers for the former football great appear before a panel of the state Supreme Court to seek Simpson's release while he appeals his armed-robbery and kidnapping conviction.Reporting from Las Vegas -- Nevada Supreme Court justices appeared cool today to arguments from O.J. Simpson's attorneys that the former football star be granted bail while he appeals his armed-robbery and kidnapping conviction. Simpson attorney Yale Galanter said the notoriety of the NFL Hall of Fame running back, who was famously acquitted of a 1994 double murder in Los Angeles, made it impossible for him to flee if he's released on bail. "Mr....

A trio of Nevada Supreme Court justices is considering whether to let O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy out of prison while the full court reviews their convictions for a gunpoint hotel room heist.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A trio of Nevada Supreme Court justices is considering whether to let O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy out of prison while the full court reviews their convictions for a gunpoint hotel room heist.

No, I don't think Obama is another OJ Simpson. The two men could not be more different. It's a common marketing strategy that links them. White guilt and that ache for black vindication were a huge part of OJ's celebrity campaign. That's also what got Obama elected over Hillary and then McCain. David Axelrod as a PR maven had obviously studied the opinion polls about black celebrities. They knew that a black man who looked and sounded good on TV could roll over the opposition; the media wouldn't dare to examine his background. OJ had demonstrated it, along with Oprah...

No, I don't think Obama is another OJ Simpson. The two men could not be more different. It's a common marketing strategy that links them. White guilt and that ache for black vindication were a huge part of OJ's celebrity campaign. That's also what got Obama elected over Hillary and then McCain. David Axelrod as a PR maven had obviously studied the opinion polls about black celebrities. They knew that a black man who looked and sounded good on TV could roll over the opposition; the media wouldn't dare to examine his background. OJ had demonstrated it, along with Oprah...

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.