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Cameron Douglas Sentenced To 4 1/2 Years In Prison For Drug Possession On Top Of The Five Already Serving

By Tony Franco Cameron Douglas the troubled 33-year-old member of the famous Hollywood family was sentenced to four-and-a-half more years in prison on Wednesday for drug possession while in prison.   Born in Santa Barbara, California, the elder son of actor Michael Douglas and only child of Diandra Morrell Douglas (whom he divorced in 2000) and grandson of actor Kirk Douglas, got the sentence on top of the five years he is already serving.  Cameron, once an aspiring actor, whose public addiction with methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine sent him previously to jail in 1999 and 2007, received the additional jail time, after his father Michael, wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and grandfather Kirk Douglas had sent in letters, requesting leniency, during his original sentencing. Cameron sent in a letter himself to Judge Richard Berman in New York, in which he wrote were that he felt saturated in his own shame and penitence and that his drug addiction had "robbed him of a life that

SAN FRANCISCO DEFENSE WAS A STEEL WALL FOR PITTSBURGH WHO COULD ONLY SCORE A FIELD GOAL IN THEIR LOSS TO THE 49ERS

By Tony Franco The Forty-Niners winners of 5 Super Bowls, played the Steelers who have 6 Championship Titles and this time,  The   49ers  top-ranked defense once again, did an excellent job to beat ailing quarterback  Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers  20-3 in Monday Night Football. Vernon Davis  caught a 1-yard touchdown pass for the 49ers (11-3) one play after setting himself up with a 21-yard reception from  Alex Smith ,  Frank Gore  scored on a 5-yard run, and  David Akers  kicked 2 field goals (22 and 38 yards) to overtake Hall of Famer  Jerry Rice  for  San Francisco' s single-season scoring record. The Steelers (10-4) missed an important opportunity to take possession of first place in the AFC North and gain the AFC's No. 1 playoff seed. A transformer outside the stadium blew out right before the game and the lights were out twice! The first time the game was delayed for about 20 minutes, and the second time, a 10-minute interruption st