A law enacted nearly three years ago to stem the influx of cell phones in prisons has failed its first test, forcing a prosecutor to end the trial of...

Andrew Pattie leapt over the dock and ran out of the Dundee Sheriff Court building during an escape bid.

By Jack Butler It’s fitting that Ronald Reagan spent many years of his all-American life in Hollywood. His trajectory — from small-town boy in...

Prison officers failed to conduct checks while the Sydney mother fell gravely ill. Warning: this story contains images of an Aboriginal person who has...

Political operative David Brock helped lead the smear campaign against Clarence Thomas' sexual harassment accuser Anita Hill — and he said he's...

In a superb performance, Brody plays a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor who comes to the US and begins a distinguished career under the...

Prisoners fled when the walls of their jail collapsed in the country’s worst flooding in two decades

By DEBORAH McNORGAN The Paris Olympics have ended but the sports scandals rage on, making a new book by Beach resident Mary Ormsby more timely than...

The Illinois Prisoner Review Board has denied parole for a serial killer linked to at least 12 murders of young women and teens, including three in...

A British prisoner is among five inmates who have escaped from a high-security prison in Portugal. A search is continuing for Mark Cameron Roscaleer...