Bobby Brown gets jail sentence

Troubled R&B star Bobby Brown has been given a suspended prison sentence after missing three child support payments.

The husband of Whitney Houston was sentenced to 90 days in jail Tuesday for contempt of court by Massachusetts judge Paula Carey, but it was immediately suspended as the payments had been made.

Brown owed former partner Kim Ward, the mother of two of his children, $63,500 and was jailed for one day in March for failing to pay the debt.

Brown is now making scheduled payments, but could go back to prison if he fails to keep up with them.

"I'm still trying, you know," Brown said after the hearing. "Working, you know, and that's the most I can do. I can work harder, you know, to try to keep up with the payments."

Singer Houston did not attend the hearing. Last month, Brown was ordered to stand trial in Atlanta on charges that he allegedly hit Houston in the face at their home near Alpharetta in December