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MARTHA ASSIGNED: Martha Stewart will serve her five-month sentence for lying about a stock trade at a federal prison facility in Alderson, W. Va., a rep confirmed to PEOPLE. "While I had hoped to be designated to a facility closer to my family and more accessible to my appellate attorneys, I am pleased that the Bureau of Prisons has designated me so quickly to FPC Alderson, the first federal prison camp for women in the United States," Stewart, 63, said in a statement. Stewart, who was assigned prisoner number 55170-054, will begin her sentence on or before Oct. 8, and will follow it with five months under house arrest.
SHOPPING SPEARS: Newlyweds Britney Spears and Kevin Federline spent their first trip as husband and wife in her hometown of Kentwood, La., demonstrating their love ... of shopping, PEOPLE reports. Federline, 26, checked out the local Wal-Mart and JC Penney for hunting equipment and running shoes before driving with Spears, 22, her mother Lynne and a friend to Baton Rouge's Mall of Louisiana on Monday. Spears shopped at Steve Madden for fuzzy slippers and message T-shirts, Victoria's Secret for lingerie and M.A.C for blushes and eyeliner.
PETERSON DRAMA: A case of mistaken identity may have led to Laci Peterson's death, defense attorney Mark Geragos suggested in Scott Peterson's double-murder trial, where he also described his client as a repeat adulterer whose single affair with Amber Frey would not have been motivation to kill Laci. During cross-examination, Geragos asked Modesto, Calif., police detective Craig Grogan about a Laci look-alike identified as "Michelle D," an assistant prosecutor in neighboring Merced who lived around the corner from the Petersons – and who received threatening calls from a man whom police never questioned.
GOLD FIGHT: American gymnast Paul Hamm, 20, took his case to keep his Olympic all-around champion gold medal to a sports tribunal in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Monday, arguing that he should not surrender his trophy to South Korean gymnast Yang Tae Young. At issue is a scoring error by judges in Hamm's favor during a parallel bars routine. Hamm told NBC News on Tuesday morning that he could not discuss what was said inside the Court of Arbitration for Sport during a session that lasted 12 hours. Yang also attended the session, and he and Hamm shook hands. A decision in the dispute is due within two weeks.
