Prosecutors say Chris Brown’s sentencing for beating Rihanna has been moved up at his lawyer’s request.

A former South Carolina medical center worker has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting she opened a credit card in the company’s name and used it to buy personal items.

A dump truck driver who hit and killed a hospital chaplain in April has been sentenced to two years probation.

Rapper T.I., sentenced to prison in Arkansas for a federal weapons charge, asked a court Thursday to let him remain free while he seeks placement in a minimum-security prison closer to his Atlanta home.

Rapper T.I., sentenced to prison in Arkansas for a federal weapons charge, asked a court Thursday to let him remain free while he seeks placement in a minimum-security prison closer to his Atlanta home.

A Tennessee man has been sentenced to death for raping and strangling a South Carolina college student with her own bikini top. The sentence came hours after Jerry Buck Inman asked to be put to death for the crime because he was too violent to be rehabilitated in prison.

The man who confessed to raping and killing a South Carolina college student nearly three years ago is scheduled to return to court. Sentencing is set to resume Monday in Pickens for Jerry Buck Inman. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Inman for the death of Tiffany Souers.

The owner of a defunct West Columbia company who pleaded guilty to bilking the Pentagon out of more than $20 million is set to be sentenced Monday afternoon.

Three former Atlanta police officers who each pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in connection with the death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid have been sentenced to federal prison.

Arguments have ended in a sentencing hearing for three former Atlanta police officers who each pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in the death of a 92-year-old woman during a botched drug raid. A judge plans to sentence Jason R. Smith, Gregg Junnier and Arthur Tesler at noon Tuesday.

The sentencing phase of the trial for a man who confessed to raping and strangling a Clemson student in her off-campus apartment two years ago will resume next month.

The death penalty phase is under way in the case of a gunman found guilty of killing four people in a shooting spree that began at a downtown Atlanta courthouse. Brian Nichols was found guilty Friday in the fatal shootings of a judge, a court reporter, a deputy and a federal agent in the 2005 rampage.

The death penalty phase has been delayed until Wednesday in the case of a gunman found guilty of killing four people in a shooting spree that began at a downtown Atlanta courthouse.