At just 9 years old, Ava Najafi lost her mother to cancer and was left to navigate life with an alcoholic father. By 11, she had turned to smoking and drinking to cope. Three years later, her ...

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A Cree woman serving a life sentence in Nova Scotia was given an additional 12 months for unlawfully confining two prison ...

Neal Parham, 71, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole in 1975 after a botched robbery of ...

Prison sentences have shadowed some of reggae's biggest names. This is the story of global reggae icons who served time, and how it defined their music and legacy. Global reggae stars who released ...

Witcher will receive a life sentence without parole, plus an additional 16 years to life. The stabbing occurred at a sober living program in Redding where Witcher and the victims were residents.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — George Banks, one of the most notorious mass murderers in the U.S., has died. Banks, 83, died Sunday afternoon at Phoenix state prison in Pennsylvania, the state Department of ...

LONDON (AP) — British police said Sunday that one of two men arrested in connection with a mass stabbing attack that spread fear and panic on a London-bound train a day earlier has been released ...

"I am grateful to God to be here, to be home, to be safe and to be alive," Britt-Johnson said. Britt-Johnson shared an embrace among a group, she says, helped save her life. The south suburban woman ...

Trinette Britt-Johnson, 58, who underwent the operation last year, has been unable to access the critical medication NBC Chicago/YouTube A Chicago woman is stuck in Jamaica without life-saving kidney ...

A family in Cuba salvages belongings from the rubble of their home after it collapsed during Hurricane Melissa's passage through Santiago de Cuba on Wednesday. (Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images) After ...

Hurricane Melissa tore a path of destruction across Jamaica after the storm made landfall on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane, one of the most powerful landfalls on record in the Atlantic basin.