A woman from Joplin has been given a 13-year prison sentence after she stole more than $700,000 from an elderly blind woman.

CHICAGO — Tavares Harrington carries the memory of his 7-year-old niece Heaven Sutton on his sleeve. Her name, tattooed in ...

Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don’t count. At least, that’s what I was taught growing up. (And I’m really not that old ...

In a letter to Human Rights Watch, he chronicled his unsuccessful efforts to induce prison authorities to protect him from abuse. Summing up these experiences, he wrote: "The opposite of ...

They were written on her official Senate stationery in her distinctive cursive handwriting ... De Lima explained that she had ...

Nadja Sayej writes about fashion, wellness, beauty and culture. This year is all about the cursive handwriting, specifically, the fine line tattoo. It could be empowering phrases like “Believe ...

Beer. A ballpark. Need another “B”? How about barbecue? The annual Amazing Ballpark Beer Fest hosted by the Syracuse Mets is ...

Prison data from the Vera Institute was collected in each state using a department of corrections survey. Corrections departments from 40 states completed and returned the survey, which asked ...

Kinshasa, Congo — An attempted jailbreak in Congo's main prison in the capital left at least 129 people dead, most of them in a stampede, authorities said Tuesday. A provisional assessment ...

Now, tourists will be able to get a glimpse for themselves of the fortresslike sandstone prison, where Capote interviewed Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, two drifters who were convicted of murdering ...

Making a relationship work is hard, but making a relationship work when one partner is in prison can be nearly impossible. Many of the dozens of couples my producers and I met making the film Met ...

Prisoners tried to break out en masse from the Makala Central Prison in the capital, Kinshasa, at around 2 a.m. local time (9 p.m. ET) on Monday, Interior Minister Jacquemain Shabani Lukoo Bihango ...