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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
A ‘bad day’ in rehab costs Chris Brown his freedom Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — With a roll of his eyes and a comment that he was good at using guns and knives, Chris Brown may have cost himself weeks of freedom and his chance to get back to making music anytime soon. The reasons for Brown’s dismissal from a Malibu rehab facility were detailed in court on Monday, with a judge ordering the Grammy winner to remain in jail until a formal probation violation hearing can be convened on April 23. The jail stint will be Brown’s longest and comes more than five years after he viciously attacked his then-girlfriend Rihanna in a rented sports car just hours before the Grammy Awards. Superior Court Judge James R. Brandlin said he was most troubled by a comment the
singer made during a group therapy session last week. “I am good at using guns and knives,” the rehab facility reported Brown said in response to an exercise asking him to reflect on what he was good or excelled at. Other transgressions cited by rehab workers included the singer ignoring a worker who was waiting to give him a drug test, rubbing elbows with a woman when he had signed an agreement to stay at least two feet away from all female clients and jokingly telling fellow patients, “I’m going to ask my higher power to take away my troubles.” When asked whether he was serious, Brown said yes while shaking his head no, a report on Brown’s conduct stated. Outside court, Brown’s attorney described the singer as having had a bad
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Kanye West pleads no contest in battery case
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day at the facility and said he didn’t think his client should be forced to stay behind bars for another month. “You know — do you have a bad day? I have bad days sometimes,” attorney Mark Geragos said outside the courthouse. “Do you say things you’d like to take back? I certainly do. So I don’t know that being in a therapeutic session and you’re talking about your reflections and you say one sentence means you go to jail? Seems to me to be counterproductive to therapy.”
R&B singer Chris Brown appears in Los Angeles Superior Court with his attorney Mark Geragos, on Monday, March 17, 2014.
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Australia, US launch plane search
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — Kanye West pleaded no contest Monday to misdemeanor battery against a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport in a special plea in which he maintains his innocence. West entered the plea through his attorney and did not attend the court hearing. He was sentenced to two years of probation, 24 anger management therapy sessions and 250 hours of community service. The rapper did not reach a civil settlement with the paparazzo, and his plea cannot be used against him in a civil lawsuit. West was charged with misdemeanor counts of battery and grand theft after an altercation at LAX with photographer Daniel Ramos in July. Ramos claimed West punched him in an unprovoked attack and wrestled his camera to the ground during the scuffle. Ramos told the court that West should be in jail. He said he was still taking medication for the injuries he suffered. “If I did what he did to me, I’d be behind bars,” he said. “I was doing my job and he broke the law.” The photographer said he is fearful of retaliation because of comments West made on the “Jimmy Kimmel” show in October. When asked about paparazzi, West said, “It’s not safe for you in this zoo. Never think that I’m not from Chicago for one second.” Ramos is suing West and attended Monday’s hearing accompanied by his lawyer, Gloria Allred. Prosecutors declined to file felony charges against West, but city prosecutors decided to pursue misdemeanor charges. Each count carried a penalty of up to six months in jail or a $1,000 fine.
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This Jan. 2003 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a P-3 Orion shortly after takeoff from Naval Air Station North Island, Calif. Australian and American authorities said Tuesday they had begun searching 600,000 square kilometres (230,000 square miles) of the remote Indian Ocean for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
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SYDNEY - Australian and American authorities said Tuesday they had begun searching 600,000 square kilometres (230,000 square miles) of the remote Indian Ocean for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, and conceded it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2013 file photo, recording artist Kanye West speaks onstage during the 17th Annual Hollywood Film Awards Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The Malaysian government has revealed it believes the jet was deliberately diverted and flew for several hours after leaving its scheduled flight path -- either north towards Central Asia, or towards the southern Indian Ocean. Authorities in Kuala Lumpur on Monday asked Canberra to take responsibility for the “southern vector” of the operation to locate the Boeing 777 that disappeared on March 8 en route to Beijing, with help from American and New Zealand aircraft. The Australian Maritime Safety
Authority has taken charge and emergency response general manager John Young said they were focusing on an area 3,000 kilometres south-west of Perth. “AMSA has defined a possible search area with information available to us from a range of sources both nationally and internationally,” he said. “This search will be difficult. The sheer size of the search area poses a huge challenge -- the search area is more than 600,0000 square kilometres. “A needle in a haystack remains
a good analogy,” he said, adding that planes were looking for wreckage or other debris on the surface only and were not equipped to search underwater. “It will take at least a few weeks to search the area thoroughly,” said Young. The search zone has been narrowed by the last known satellite and military radar data received from the plane, coupled with analysis of possible routes if it had flown south. Long-range P-8 Poseidon and P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft from the US Navy’s 7th Fleet are also involved in the search. In Manila, 7th fleet commander Vice Admiral Robert Thomas described the combing nature of the search mission as “like mowing the grass”, using the planes’ high-altitude radars that can spot virtually anything floating on the sea.
“We will continue to cover the areas with airborne assets because that’s really what the problem set calls for now,” Thomas told reporters aboard the fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge, which was on port call in Manila. “Right now, we do not have a time frame for the search window. We are just gonna keep at it until we’re told to stop.” Fleet spokesman Commander William Marks said the surveillance planes had already covered more than 190,000 square kilometres, but emphasised the enormity of the task ahead. “If you superimpose a map of the United States from the northern part of the Indian Ocean to the southern part of Australia, it is as if we are looking for a few people somewhere between New York and California and we don’t know
where (they are),” he said. Apart from the US aircraft, four Australian long-range P-3C Orion maritime surveillance planes and a New Zealand Orion are involved. Young said China had also requested to be involved and that was being considered. Ships have also been alerted to keep watch, although the vastness of Indian Ocean means very few pass through. A guided missile destroyer from the US Navy’s 7th fleet had been involved in the hunt earlier in the Andaman Sea, but the Pentagon said on Monday it would be withdrawn because the area to be searched was too big. Six Australians were on the commercial flight carrying 239 passengers and crew with the majority of those on board either Chinese or Malaysian.