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• Chris Brown returns with surprise 'Loyal' performance at 2014 BET Awards

  With rappers Lil Wayne and Tyga joining him onstage and Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker providing percussions for Breezy, a red flannel shirt-wearing Brown showed why he is an award-winning performer by showing his vocal finesse and his groovy moves. Bopping, boogying and shaking like the Michael Jackson disciple that he is, Brown reportedly did not disappoint, Billboard reported.

• Court releases Chris Brown ahead of completing 131-day prison sentence

  TMZ reported that Chris Brown has been released from jail on Sunday at midnight following a judge's decision to credit the amount of time he had already spent in jail and rehab to his custody sentence for violating his probation by fighting with a young man in Washington DC.

• Chris Brown wraps his 'Con Air' trip to LA, to spend another week in jail for probation violation

  CNN said Chris Brown's attorney Mark Geragos and Assistant District Attorney Mary Murray has agreed to discuss about the possibility of the rapper admitting his probation violation.

• Court development delays Chris Brown's Washington assault trial

  CBS News that unless Chris Brown's bodyguard agrees to testify at his boss' Washington misdemeanor assault trial without immunity, the rapper's trial will be postponed until Chris Hollosy finishes his appeal for his own assault conviction.

• Chris Brown's Washington assault trial set on Monday

  A Washington courtroom is set to begin the hearing regarding actor and rapper Chris Brown's alleged assault on a 20 year-old man following a disagreement at a local hotel, USA Today said.

• Mother and girlfriend of singer Chris Brown shows up somber at Washington assault trial

  Daily Mail reported that singer Chris Brown's mother Joyce Hawkins and his on-off again girlfriend Karrueche Tran attended his misdemeanor trial at the Columbia Superior Court on Friday.

• Bodyguard joins boss Chris Brown at Washington trial

  According to the lawyer representing singer Chris Brown's bodyguard, Bernard Grimm, complainant and alleged assault victim Parker Adams was simply trying to get rich from his lawsuit against the musician and Christopher Hollosy, The Associated Press said.

• Federal marshals take Chris Brown into custody for misdemeanor assault hearing

  Hours after lawyer Mark Geragos filed a motion for him to escort singer Chris Brown into custody from his jail cell in Los Angeles to attend to his misdemeanor assault trial in Washington, DC, the star was taken by US Marshals Service instead.

• Fan sues Chris Brown and his bodyguard for alleged hotel assault in Washington, DC

  Maryland art student Parker Adams said he is seeking a total of $3 million in damages from a lawsuit he filed against Chris Brown and a bodyguard in relation to an altercation outside a Washington hotel, The New York Daily News said.