A judge has ruled singer Courtney Love can leave rehab and enroll in an outpatient program. Love has been at a live-in drug treatment facility since September. Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin cut short Love's sentence for violating probation in three criminal cases, including two drug-related charges. The judge ordered Love, the former lead singer of the band Hole and widow of Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, to submit to random checks twice a week for drugs and alcohol. She also must continue therapy and avoid any business that primarily sells alcohol. Although Love will be now have more freedom to finish up her sentence for violating probation in three different criminal cases, she will still be under watchful eyes. The judge extended her probation to March 2007 and set her curfew at 10 p. m.

A Honduran teen imprisoned for killing a U. S. Drug Enforcement Agency officer has escaped for the 5th time, Honduran officials announced Saturday. Herlan Colindres, 16, escaped from an aging juvenile detention facility Friday. Officials believe Colindres, a gang member who has been implicated in 16 other murders, slipped out of the prison with the assistance of other imprisoned youth. This is his second escape in four months and his fifth escape since his his first incarceration for killing rival gang members. In August, Colindres managed to weaken the jail bars of his cell with a nail file.

Those Southern California residents needing some extra sleep may find themselves behind bars before they wake-up. The Ventura City Council has given preliminary endorsement to a measure that would make sleeping in public a misdemeanor.

On Friday, Singapore puts two men behind bars for making racist remarks over the Internet against minority Malays. The city-state's administration has invoked sedition laws inherited from British colonial rule. Twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Koh has been sentenced to a month in prison, while 25-year-old Nicholas Lim was fined, and jailed for one day.

Bourbon Street's Deja Vu club is the first strip club to reopen for business in New Orleans' famed French Quarter, following the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina three weeks ago. Reuters