A drug addict has been sentenced to six years in prison with two suspended for trying to rob a shop with a replica gun and attacking a foreign national.

Music producer Phil Spector will be sentenced in Los Angeles today for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.

A lawyer for music producer Phil Spector said he maintained he did not kill actress Lana Clarkson and was not responsible for her death, according to a court document.

OVER the long, hard winter, Championship Man fell foul of an old enemy – the seasonal bout of melancholy. Down the years, he’s tried everything to bridge the gap. One November his wife suggested yoga, saying it’d take him out of himself.

A drug addict who tried to rob a shop armed with a replica gun was disarmed and chased down the street by a brave employee, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

The jury in Phil Spector’s second murder trial will visit the famed music producer’s home where actress Lana Clarkson died, but the judge set strict rules on the presence of Spector’s wife and the operation of an outdoor fountain.

A prosecutor in the murder retrial of Phil Spector portrayed the producer as a musical genius who repeatedly threatened women with guns and could become “very sinister, very violent and very deadly” when he was drunk.

A WITNESS at Phil Spector’s murder retrial will be allowed to testify that the record producer used incendiary language about women and once stated they should be shot, a judge has ruled.

Music mogul Phil Spector will not retain his legal team when he's retried for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.

PROSECUTORS closed their case against music producer Phil Spector with sarcastic attacks on his team’s scientific experts and called on Los Angeles jurors to do justice for the actress found shot to death in his US home.

Prosecutors closed their case against music producer Phil Spector with sarcastic attacks on his team’s scientific experts and called on Los Angeles jurors to do justice for the actress found shot to death in his US home.

ACTRESS Lana Clarkson may have breathed out blood that spattered on Phil Spector’s jacket with her dying gasp, a forensic pathologist told the music producer’s murder trial.

Forensic expert Dr Werner Spitz has claimed the prosecution's murder theory in the Phil Spector case is inaccurate and riddled with "holes".

The judge in the Phil Spector murder trial has reversed his decision not to let jurors hear from a security guard who claims he once heard the music producer say all women should be shot in the head.

The Phil Spector murder trial erupted in intense arguments outside the jury’s presence today over whether the defence can introduce a diary written by gunshot victim Lana Clarkson in which she wrote of her visions of a dead actress, depression over her acting career and fascination with guns.

The barrel of a gun may have been forced into actress Lana Clarkson’s mouth, bruising her tongue before the gunshot that killed her, a coroner said today in record producer Phil Spector’s murder trial.

FIVE weeks into the Phil Spector murder trial, it is time for the prosecution to change course, moving the courtroom drama from personal stories into the critical phase of forensic evidence.

Five weeks into the Phil Spector murder trial, it is time for the prosecution to change course, moving the courtroom drama from personal stories into the critical phase of forensic evidence.

Phil Spector stepped out of his mansion with a gun in his hand at 5am and said: “I think I killed somebody,” a chauffeur told the record producer’s murder trial today.

Phil Spector once escorted a waitress and her friend out of his mansion while carrying a firearm for "protection", the music producer's murder trial heard yesterday.

Police who found actress Lana Clarkson dead in Phil Spector's mansion "had murder on their mind" and disregarded anything that was inconsistent with that conclusion, a defence lawyer told the jury today in his opening statement of the music producer's trial.

An actress shot dead at Phil Spector’s mansion was the last of several women victimised by the legendary music producer in a decades-long series of alcohol-fuelled confrontations, a prosecutor told jurors today as the murder trial began.

AN ACTRESS shot dead at Phil Spector’s mansion was the last of several women victimised by the legendary music producer in a decades-long series of alcohol-fuelled confrontations, a prosecutor told jurors yesterday as the murder trial began.

Prosecutors in the Phil Spector murder case have asked a judge to allow testimony from a former employee and one-time girlfriend who said the veteran record producer pointed a gun at her head in two separate incidents decades ago.

YOU can take the CMA Awards out of Nashville, but you can’t take Nashville out of the CMA Awards.

Dolly Parton and Elton John will sing Turn The Lights Out When You Leave at The 39th Annual Country Music Association Awards, at New York’s Madison Square Garden on November 15.

The owner of the Garfunkel’s restaurant chain today dispelled fears that diners were spending less on eating out after serving up record results.

The two most successful artists at the Academy of Country Music Awards continued their winning ways, with Alan Jackson capturing album of the year for Drive, as well as a video honour, and Brooks & Dunn being named top vocal duo.

Coldplay have crowned a triumphant year with two prizes at the Grammy awards in New York.

Eight artists received five Grammy nominations each today, with Bruce Springsteen, Norah Jones, Avril Lavigne and Eminem dominating the major categories, including record, song and album of the year.

Alan Jackson took home his second entertainer of the year award and four other honours at the annual Country Music Association Awards.