Lawyer: Work release conditions held up Sheen deal

DENVER (AP) — A disagreement over the terms of Charlie Sheen's proposed work release has held up a plea deal in his domestic abuse case, according to a lawyer involved in the negotiations.

Attorney Yale Galanter said yesterday that the final paperwork submitted to a judge would have placed Sheen under more stringent rules while out of jail of working, including not being able to smoke. He would only be allowed to eat meals provided by the jail or face sanctions.

Galanter, who represents Sheen's wife, says that wasn't the plea deal they had hammered out with Pitkin County authorities.

He says the smoking restrictions were a small part of the disagreement. He said Sheen had been approved to get nicotine patches while in custody.

Early Stieg Larsson work uncovered in Sweden

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two early science fiction stories by the late crime novelist Stieg Larsson have been uncovered at the Swedish National Library in Stockholm.

Library spokesman Hakan Farje says it received the two short stories as a private donation in 2007.

Farje says Larsson sent them to a Swedish science fiction magazine when he was 17, hoping to have them published, but the magazine rejected them.

Farje said yesterday that Larsson had described the stories as his "first tentative efforts."

Larsson died in 2004 at age 50 and didn't have time to enjoy the success of his Millennium trilogy, which has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.