HOUSTON (AP) — Craig Biggio collected his 3,000th hit and Carlos Lee made sure he could celebrate it in style.
Biggio had five hits for just the second time in his career and Lee hit a grand slam in the 11th inning to give the Houston Astros an 8-5 win over the Colorado Rockies on Thursday night.
“I think it was the way it was supposed to be done,” Biggio said as he choked back tears. “To have it happen here — that was a special atmosphere that was out there today.”
Paris Hilton was freed from jail last night, and once again it was the job of Steve Whitmore, the Los Angeles sheriff’s spokesman, to break the news.
“She fulfilled her debt. She was obviously in good spirits. She thanked people as she left,” he said. (Last time she was released, he said something similar: “She has fulfilled her obligation. She has paid her debt to society.”)
And once again it was the job the media to apply a full-court press in covering the 26-year-old woman who violated probation relating to an alcohol charge (presiding over a head-on collision between a celebrity-obsessed culture and the more serious issue of the equal application of justice.)
John Daly smokes a cigarette while on the putting green after a rain delay Friday, June 8, 2007, at the Stanford St. Jude Championship golf tournament in Memphis, Tenn. Daly told authorities his wife tried stab him with a steak knife, and the golfer had red marks on his cheeks when he showed up to play Friday on the course where he lives. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Matthew Craig)John Daly told authorities his wife tried to stab him with a steak knife, and the golfer had red marks on his cheeks when he showed up to play Friday on the course where he lives. Daly called police about 6 a.m. on Friday, Shelby County Sheriff’s department spokesman Steve Shular said. When deputies arrived, wife Sherrie and the couple’s children were not there. Deputies could not find the knife he claimed she used.
A judge today ordered Paris Hilton back to jail, reversing a decision by the Los Angeles County sheriff to release her and keep her under house arrest after she had served only three days of a 45-day sentence.
Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer said that Ms. Hilton will have to serve the entire sentence he had handed down last month for repeatedly violating the terms of her probation on alcohol-related reckless driving charges stemming from an incident last year.
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Paris Hilton was let out of jail Thursday morning, days after she began serving what was to have been a 45-day sentence for violating probation, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.
Hilton must wear a monitoring bracelet and remain at her home for another 40 days, said sheriff’s department spokesman Steve Whitmore.
Medical considerations “played a part” in the decision to offer Hilton home confinement for the remainder of her sentence, Whitmore said.
