Kid Rock Gets Probation in Waffle House Fight

EntertainmentExtraKid Rock Gets Probation in Waffle House FightKid Rock Gets Probation in Waffle House FightThe Associated PressKid Rock has been sentenced to a year's probation and fined 1,000-dollars for his role in a fight at a suburban Atlanta Waffle House last fall. (July 22)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] No jail time for Kid Rock - but he's been sentenced to a year's probation and fined a-thousand dollars. The verdict - handed down in a Georgia courthouse - is for his role in fight at a suburban Atlanta Waffle House last fall - caught here on this surveillance tape.Officials say Kid Rock - whose real name is Robert J. Ritchie, was also sentenced Monday to six hours of anger management counseling and 80 hours of community service.Ritchie's tour bus stopped at the waffle House last October after an Atlanta performance. An exchange of words with a customer escalated into a fight that spilled from the restaurant into the the parking lot. Ritchie and five members of his entourage were arrested. Two of them got similar sentences Monday. Charges against the others were dropped. ___ ___, The Associated Press.(****END****) ANCHOR VOICE: Lauri Neff-------------------------VIDEO PRODUCER: Neff------------------------------VIDEO SOURCE: AP--------------------------VIDEO APPROVAL: JC------------------------------VIDEO RESTRICTIONS:None----------------------------------

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