Probation

Rap star Beanie Sigel was found guilty in Philadelphia on Wednesday of a second probation violation for taking a trip to Atlantic City, N.J., and for being in contact with a convicted felon. U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick ordered Sigel to serve one day in federal prison and extended his probation -- which was slated to end next month -- by 18 months. The first six months are to be served in a halfway house, meaning that the 33-year-old rapper (real name: Dwight Grant) will be unable to travel to promote his latest album, "The Solution."

The Long Beach State men's basketball program has been penalized by the NCAA because of multiple major and secondary violations that occurred from August 2005 to August 2006, the NCAA announced Thursday. The program will be on probation for three years, loses one scholarship for each of the next two years, is prohibited from recruiting junior college players for two years and will have to forfeit victories in which ineligible players participated.

Nobody wanted Jose Luis Munoz to fail. The Anaheim gang member raised by a single mother had received a second chance -- or maybe it was his first -- to turn his life around when he settled a lawsuit against the city and police for $2.5 million. In December, he was waiting for the check and paving his future with good intentions. But four months later he was back in prison for violating parole; he had been caught associating with other gang members.

Threatened by a federal lawsuit over dangerous conditions at Los Angeles County's juvenile probation camps, county supervisors said Tuesday that they will hire a team of independent monitors to improve safety at the 19 facilities. "The county finally conceded it needed to address issues in the camps," Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said. "The Department of Justice forced probation's hand."

The owner of a bus that exploded during the Hurricane Rita evacuation, killing 23 elderly evacuees, was sentenced in McAllen to five years of probation for mismanaging his fleet. As part of his probation, a judge ruled, Global Limo Inc. owner James Maples can no longer work for any bus company.

An actress convicted of lying to federal agents about an investment scam involving a bogus television series on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was sentenced to 10 days in federal prison Wednesday for violating probation. Alison Ann Heruth, 41, broke into tears when U.S. District Judge Manuel L.

Four girls convicted in the Long Beach hate-crime trial were sentenced to probation and house arrest Monday, as a judge ignored a prosecutor's pleas for three of them to be confined in a youth camp. Judge Gibson Lee has now given the same sentence to eight of the nine black youths convicted of beating three young white women on Halloween night. The remaining girl, a college student who was 17 at the time of the attack, is scheduled to be sentenced this morning.

The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to hire 197 more probation staffers to oversee juvenile offenders. The move is the latest in the troubled department's effort to meet federal requirements to improve conditions for adolescent inmates. The 102 new employees at county probation camps and 95 new workers at juvenile halls will cost about $14.3 million annually.

The radiation oncology department at UCI Medical Center has been put on probation for deficiencies in its residency training program, officials said Tuesday. The sanction was issued in January by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education based on a review conducted in May. Officials wouldn't disclose the reasons for the probation, but Dr. Jeffrey V.

Prosecutors in Los Angeles said Thursday that they would ask a judge to revoke Paris Hilton's probation in a reckless-driving case, a move that could lead to a jail term. The decision followed an investigation into whether the hotel heiress and reality-TV star violated terms of her probation by driving last month with a suspended license.