After two convicted murders escaped a high security prison Saturday, authorities in New York and Vermont are on the hunt. Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped with a complex plan many immediately called a “real life Shawshank Redemption.”
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Hundreds of law enforcement agents hunting for two upstate New York prison escapees focused their search on Thursday on a heavily wooded area just a few miles from the maximum security facility where they broke out last week, police said.
The former girlfriend of Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes testified on Wednesday that the admitted shooter was quiet in public but was more outgoing when alone with her or friends.
Ali Shukri Amin, from Alexandria, Virginia, pleaded guilty Thursday in a federal court to providing material support to ISIS and faces up to 15 years in prison.
When his father gave him a box of old home movies, Steven Smirco popped a tape in his VCR and sat down to relive his childhood. There, amid the birthday parties, communions and family Christmases, he was surprised to find something else: footage of President John F. Kennedy
Two Washington state high school students were killed and two more seriously injured after the group was struck from behind by a sport utility vehicle during a gym class walk, state police said on Wednesday.
A Florida high school principal has been removed from his job after commenting online in support of the Texas police officer who resigned after a video surfaced showing him manhandling a black bikini-clad teenager and pulling his gun on other black teens, according to officials and local media.
A surging Red River that flooded northwest Louisiana this week, damaging hundreds of structures and displacing scores of people, slowly began to recede on Wednesday but was still expected to be above flood stage for several more days.
As the search for two escaped prisoners entered its sixth day Thursday, New York and Vermont intensified security over fears the convicted killers may have crossed the border into the latter state.
American citizen Keith Broomfield was killed fighting in Syria, a State Department official confirmed Wednesday.
The seven-minute video, viewed 10 million times on YouTube as of Wednesday morning, shows officers responding to an incident, which police said started when scores of young people attended a party at a community pool and refused requests to leave.
Scientists have finally solved the mystery of a milky rain that coated cars and raised eyebrows across a wide swathe of the Pacific Northwest this February, researchers said on Tuesday.
United Nations peacekeepers commonly pay for sex with cash, dresses, jewelry, perfume, cell phones and other items, despite a ban on such relationships with people they’re supposed to be helping, a draft U.N. report concluded.
A search for a man and the 9-month-old son he is believed to have abducted has been canceled after Missouri authorities found a burned vehicle with what are believed to be their remains inside.
Phone records indicate Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian was not using his cell phone for calls, texts or the Internet while he was operating a train that crashed May 12 in Philadelphia, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday. The wreck left eight people dead and more than 200 injured.
