Bai Ling (白靈) has copped a plea in her shoplifting case.
The actress was charged earlier this week with petty theft for trying to take a pack of batteries and two Star magazines worth US$16.22 from a store at Los Angeles International Airport.
In the plea deal requested by her attorney, she agreed Wednesday to plead guilty to disturbing the peace and to pay a fine and penalties totaling US$700, city attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan said.
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The misdemeanor infraction "carries the same penalty as petty theft," Mateljan said.
In a message posted on her blog, the actress proclaimed "I am innocent" below a photo of herself with her thumb up.
"Theft dismissed! Yes! This is it! All the darkness went away," she wrote.
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The actress, who has appeared in such films as The Crow and Anna and the King, was arrested on Feb. 13 after she was detained by a store employee who summoned police.
She later told E! News that she was having an "emotionally crazy" day because she and her boyfriend broke up right before Valentine's Day.
Kelly Rowland has gotten a little more "bustylicious."
Rowland, who sang Bootylicious with Beyonce in the group Destiny's Child, said that she had plastic surgery in October to bring her "from an A-cup to a B-cup."
"I was sick of not fitting into my tops," she says. "There was this one really hot House of Dereon top - I just wanted to fill that out!" Rowland says that top complements her new curves: "I put it on and I looked so good! I'm so happy. I feel complete," said Rowland, who has released two solo albums.
A leukemia patient in dire need of a bone marrow transplant has found a donor after Grammy Award-winning singer Rihanna publicized her case, People magazine reported.
Lisa Gershowitz Flynn, a 41-year-old lawyer and mother of two small children, was diagnosed last November with acute myelogenous leukemia, a fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone marrow. People.com said last month that doctors had told Flynn she needed to find a marrow donor within four to six weeks.
Flynn has said she was touched by Rihanna's efforts on her behalf.
Lisa Marie Presley wanted to keep her pregnancy private, but felt she had to say something when photos of her looking heavier were ridiculed in the news media.
"After being the target all week of slanderous and degrading stories, horribly manipulated pictures and articles in the media, I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant," the 40-year-old singer wrote on her MySpace page.
Britney Spears' father will retain broad control of the troubled pop singer's financial and business affairs until at least July 31, court sources said on Thursday.
A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Superior Court said the court on Wednesday extended Jamie Spears' control over the 26-year old singer's estate, but declined to provide details.
Off the record, on the QT and very hush, hush, the trial of a Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano, who counted A-list stars among his clients, is stirring fears of what secrets might crawl out of the woodwork.
"The PI to the stars" went on trial on Wednesday on 110 counts of illegal telephone tapping and racketeering with four co-accused.
Eyebrows raised among the rich and famous in 2006 when he was charged.
Gossipmongers started salivating on Wednesday as prosecutors unveiled a list of potential witnesses, including Sylvester Stallone, Keith Carradine, Chris Rock and Farrah Fawcett.
Former football star O.J. Simpson won't be tried on armed robbery and kidnapping charges until September.
District Judge Jackie Glass on Friday said she didn't want to delay the trial but felt she needed to push it back to Sept. 8 to give prosecutors time to analyze and enhance tape recordings and other evidence and provide the results to defense attorneys.
A young Brazilian woman on Thursday night embraced Bob Dylan onstage at a concert, wresting a smile and a few words from the normally reserved singer.
Dylan was performing an encore at his second show in Sao Paulo when the woman rushed the stage. Three bouncers whisked her away.
That US assistance was a model for Taiwan’s spectacular development success was early recognized by policymakers and analysts. In a report to the US Congress for the fiscal year 1962, former President John F. Kennedy noted Taiwan’s “rapid economic growth,” was “producing a substantial net gain in living.” Kennedy had a stake in Taiwan’s achievements and the US’ official development assistance (ODA) in general: In September 1961, his entreaty to make the 1960s a “decade of development,” and an accompanying proposal for dedicated legislation to this end, had been formalized by congressional passage of the Foreign Assistance Act. Two
March 31 to April 6 On May 13, 1950, National Taiwan University Hospital otolaryngologist Su You-peng (蘇友鵬) was summoned to the director’s office. He thought someone had complained about him practicing the violin at night, but when he entered the room, he knew something was terribly wrong. He saw several burly men who appeared to be government secret agents, and three other resident doctors: internist Hsu Chiang (許強), dermatologist Hu Pao-chen (胡寶珍) and ophthalmologist Hu Hsin-lin (胡鑫麟). They were handcuffed, herded onto two jeeps and taken to the Secrecy Bureau (保密局) for questioning. Su was still in his doctor’s robes at
Last week the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said that the budget cuts voted for by the China-aligned parties in the legislature, are intended to force the DPP to hike electricity rates. The public would then blame it for the rate hike. It’s fairly clear that the first part of that is correct. Slashing the budget of state-run Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) is a move intended to cause discontent with the DPP when electricity rates go up. Taipower’s debt, NT$422.9 billion (US$12.78 billion), is one of the numerous permanent crises created by the nation’s construction-industrial state and the developmentalist mentality it
Experts say that the devastating earthquake in Myanmar on Friday was likely the strongest to hit the country in decades, with disaster modeling suggesting thousands could be dead. Automatic assessments from the US Geological Survey (USGS) said the shallow 7.7-magnitude quake northwest of the central Myanmar city of Sagaing triggered a red alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses. “High casualties and extensive damage are probable and the disaster is likely widespread,” it said, locating the epicentre near the central Myanmar city of Mandalay, home to more than a million people. Myanmar’s ruling junta said on Saturday morning that the number killed had
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