Former track star Oscar Pistorius, convicted of culpable homicide last year in the shooting death of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was released on house arrest Monday, prison officials confirmed to the BBC. That’s one day ahead of schedule, and less than one year after he was first jailed.

Just because Lindsay Lohan is under house arrest doesn't mean that she still can't earn a paycheck. The Hollywood cockroach just made a nice bit of cash for filming a commercial for a silly website in her living room.

The monitoring anklet that Lindsay Lohan, Hollywood's most larcenous starlet, has been forced to wear while under house arrest went off earlier this week. That would normally indicate that Lindsay's left the building. But when police went to her Venice Beach house, they found LiLo lounging in the sun on her roof deck, reading scripts. Authorities surmised the bracelet must have malfunctioned. Are they sure they located the right Lindsay? The one we know wouldn't be caught dead actually doing work.

Burmese Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is due to be released after spending most of the last two decades under house arrest.

Billionaire underage-girl sex-soliciter and bro to Bill Clinton Jeffrey Epstein will be taking his egg-shaped weiner to Dubai when his house arrest ends next week, according to the New York Post. He's also suing a bunch of people. [Page 6]

Three members of the Michigan-based Hutaree militant group have been released pending trial after their March arrest, along with six others, on charges of sedition and plotting to use weapons of mass destruction against police. [Detroit Free Press, pic]

With its ratings in the toilet and prime time roster trashed by the failed Jay Leno experiment, the upcoming television season is make-or-break for NBC. Based on the trailers for the shows it has coming up, is there any hope?

Currently under house arrest in a comfy chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland, convicted sex offender Roman Polanski has some very unique dilemmas, but he has solutions—he's suing the photographers who take his picture and sending warm wishes to supporters.

Poor, beleaguered Roman Polanski is being held in the most inhumane of conditions, a luxury ski chalet with a breathtaking view in a posh Swiss town beneath an endless sky bound only by rainbows.

Nine bikini-clad Turkish women imprisoned on fake Big Brother-esque reality show were rescued by cops.