City jail employee James Short, 26, was previously charged with leaving his service weapon unattended in a separate case in St. Louis County.

U.S. President Donald Trump says El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele will meet with him at the White House in the next couple of weeks. Trump, speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday, ...

TAIPEI :Taiwan's top financial regulator said on Sunday it will impose temporary curbs on short-selling of shares ... a large trade surplus with the United States, is subject to a 32 per cent ...

April 3 (UPI) --YouTube on Thursday announced new video creation tools for short videos ahead of a pending deadline for TikTok owner ByteDance to sell it or be banned from the United States.

A convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas' death row has died of natural causes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate ...

A Rikers Island inmate who allegedly tried to kill a man by slitting his throat died behind bars Monday, the fifth death in city custody in fewer than two months. Dashawn Jenkins, 27, succumbed ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers, weeks after the state fired more than 2,000 guards who ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution was abruptly called off in 2022 and a follow-up ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution was abruptly called off in 2022 and a follow-up ...

Trump’s order signed March 28 authorized US Bureau of Prisons acting director William Lothrop “to immediately release” the federal inmate, who had been serving a 14-year sentence at a ...

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