Las Vegas, NV (KROC-AM News) - A facial recognition system used by the Department of Motor Vehicles in Nevada led to the recent capture of a man who escaped from the Federal Medical Center in Rochester in 1992.
Butner, NC (AP) - Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheik convicted of plotting terror attacks in the United States in the 1990s, died Saturday in a federal prison where he was serving a life sentence. He was 78.
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has arrived at Rochester's federal prison to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that he sexually abused at least four boys when he coached wrestling at an Illinois high school.
CHICAGO (AP) -- When he sentenced Dennis Hastert to more than a year in prison, the judge in the former House speaker's hush-money case delivered the verbal equivalent of a public flogging.
DETROIT (AP) — A U.S. judge has granted early release to a 91-year-old Indiana man imprisoned for taking at least 2,600 pounds of cocaine to Michigan for a Mexican drug cartel.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A homeless man who was killed by Los Angeles police on Skid Row was living under an assumed name and was wanted for violating probation terms for a bank robbery conviction, French and U.S. officials said Tuesday.