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A man accused of using a prosthetic penis to try to pass a drug test has been arrested in eastern Missouri. Authorities say 34-year-old Sydney Levin was submitting a urine sample last week as part of his probation when an officer allegedly spotted him using a prosthetic known as a Whizzinator. The prosthetic is advertised as a "discreet" device that includes synthetic "medical grade urine."

Casey Anthony, the young Florida mother found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, completed a year of probation early on Friday but her attorney said freedom would be limited for the woman widely reviled after the acquittal.

A woman who punched, scratched and rubbed her buttocks against a $30 million painting has been sentenced to two years of probation, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Casey Anthony, who was acquitted last month of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, has been ordered to return to Orange County, Fla., to serve probation from a prior check fraud conviction, MyFoxOrlando.com reports.

Per the terms of her probation in her DUI case as laid out last month by Judge Elden S. Fox, Lohan was "advised that any positive or missed test will result in 30-day jail sentence."

A distraught Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Tuesday after a judge ruled that she had violated her probation by missing a string of alcohol education classes imposed for a 2007 drunk driving arrest.

Actress Lindsay Lohan is scheduled to appear Tuesday in a courtroom for a probation revocation hearing that could end with her either headed for jail or her next movie role.

Kwame M. Kilpatrick, who resigned as mayor of Detroit and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in 2008, was sentenced on Tuesday to as many as five years in prison for violating his probation. The sentence was harsher than expected, and elicited loud gasps in the courtroom.

Lohan had been placed on three years' probation and ordered to complete an alcohol rehabilitation program after pleading guilty to cocaine use and driving under the influence in August 2007.

A judge sentenced the R&B singer Chris Brown on Tuesday to five years of probation and six months of community labor for his assault on the pop star Rihanna.