Law enforcement agencies were searching late Thursday for a Brazilian man who escaped from a prison near Philadelphia days after he was sentenced to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of his former girlfriend, the authorities said. The inmate, Danelo Cavalcante, escaped from the Chester County Prison on Thursday morning, the local district attorney’s…
Rosa Jimenez, a Texas babysitter who had been sentenced to 99 years in prison after being convicted of murder in the 2003 death of a toddler, was exonerated on Monday after years of appeals in which she maintained her innocence and testimony against her was called into question. On Monday, a Travis County District Court…
A Colorado police officer was found guilty of two misdemeanors on Friday after facing charges for putting a handcuffed woman in a patrol car that was parked on active railroad tracks and then struck by a freight train. The Fort Lupton police officer, Jordan Steinke, is one of two officers facing criminal charges after Yareni…
A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a man who committed a nonviolent crime cannot be legally prevented from owning a firearm — a potential setback to gun regulations spurred by a Supreme Court ruling last year that vastly expanded the right to bear arms. In an 11-to-4 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals…
Four members of the Proud Boys, including their former leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted on Thursday of seditious conspiracy for plotting to keep President Donald J. Trump in power after his election defeat by leading a violent mob in attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The jurors in the case failed to reach a…
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said on Saturday that he would pardon a man who was convicted on Friday of murdering a protester in Austin, as long as a state board brought such a request to his desk. The announcement from the governor directly places the fate of Daniel S. Perry, who was found guilty…
The city of Idaho Falls, Idaho, has agreed to pay $11.7 million to a man who spent 20 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering an 18-year-old woman in 1996, according to a settlement agreement approved by the City Council this week. The man, Christopher Tapp, was cleared in 2019 of the…