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Actor Lou Diamond Phillips has been banned from drinking alcohol for two years after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated in Texas.

Phillips was also sentenced to two years of probation during a court appearance Wednesday near Corpus Christi, where he grew up. Phillips must abide by other conditions, such as completing a DWI education program.

Phillips, 56, had traveled from his home in California for a speaking engagement in November when he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

Police said an officer suspected Phillips had been drinking when he stopped to ask the officer for directions. He later apologized for his actions, saying “it will never happen again.”

Bollywood star Salman Khan gets 5 years for poaching deer

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was convicted Thursday of poaching rare deer in a wildlife preserve 20 ago and sentenced to five years in prison, with the trial judge describing him as a “habitual offender.”

The busy actor contended he did not shoot the two blackbuck deer in the western India preserve in 1998 and was acquitted in related cases.

He was in court for the ruling in the western city of Jodhpur on Thursday. After the verdict, police took him to a local prison. His attorneys are expected to appeal his conviction in the state High Court and seek bail for him.

Khan, 52, has starred in more than 90 Hindi-language films, but also has had brushes with the law. He had been sentenced to terms of between one and five years in related poaching cases before being acquitted by appeals courts for lack of evidence.