Pain from a double hernia drove rapper Beanie Sigel to a Philadelphia hospital Wednesday where he is expected to remain through the weekend.

By MARYCLAIRE DALE PHILADELPHIA - Beanie Sigel, the rapper who has sold hundreds of thousands of records glamorizing a criminal lifestyle, was convicted of assault Tuesday for a fight in 2003.

PHILADELPHIA - Gangster rapper Beanie Sigel was sentenced to a year in federal prison Friday on a gun-possession charge stemming from a traffic stop. Sigel, 30, could have received more than three years, but the judge cited the rapper's charity work and drug abuse treatment in taking leniency.