Tennessee murderer captured over a week after escaping prison
Jacob Morley was serving a life sentence at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tennessee when he escaped by slipping through a fence on the property.
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Jacob Morley was serving a life sentence at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tennessee when he escaped by slipping through a fence on the property.
The board's unanimous recommendation goes to Gov. Mike Braun, who has the final say before the Nov. 5 execution of Jeffrey Weisheit, convicted in the 2010 deaths of 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch and 5-year-old Caleb Lynch.
The truck was parked behind a shopping center in Marion, about 120 miles north of the prison. Police there say they have had no other reports of stolen vehicles or anything suspicious, and Jacob Morley has not been found.
Smash and grab burglars hit a Shell Food Mart not far from Chicago Midway International Airport early Friday morning, police said.
Thieves tried, and failed, to rip an ATM out of a gas station in Chicago's West Lawn neighborhood early Friday morning.
A man is charged with murder for a stabbing last summer in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood, police said.
A 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man were killed during a soccer game at Stryker Soccer Complex in Wichita, Kansas, according to police.
Chicago police issued a warning after nearly 20 cars were stolen in West Town, West Loop and Near West Side since the beginning of October.
Indiana State Police said a woman is now facing 42 felony charges for creating fake expungement orders and stealing money from victims who thought they were clients at the law firm where she worked.
A CTA janitor died after being stabbed as he tried to intervene in an attack on a Green Line train operator at the Damen/Lake stop Thursday afternoon, just blocks from the United Center.
Violence prevention leaders are holding a press conference on Friday after a CTA janitor was stabbed to death at the Damen Green Line station on Thursday.
A man has been charged in five video gambling burglaries in the south suburbs as investigators try to determine if he's also connected to over a dozen more.
Smash-and-grab burglars backed their car into a gas station in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood Thursday to steal an ATM.
Lansing police are considering whether the deaths of five unhoused men could be the work of a serial killer.
A woman, identified only as Jane Doe, alleges she was gang-raped by seven fraternity members in 2024 and accuses Cornell University of failing to protect her.
A high school senior was shot and killed on his way to school Friday morning in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.
Chicago police released images from surveillance video showing two suspects in a shooting on a CTA bus in Englewood Wednesday.
Chicago police are searching for three people after a 31-year-old woman was attacked on a CTA platform then followed onto the train.
A 78-year-old southern Illinois woman was scammed out of $318,000 in an elaborate scheme involving gold bars and alleged federal agents.
The Illinois Attorney General charged 11 former and current Ford Heights elected officials and municipal employees with misusing funds for personal gain.
Inside the home, owned by Eugene Horsch and connected to his father, R.C. Horsch, authorities have found a trove of digital images, a so-called laboratory of chemicals and a small marijuana grow operation.
Chicago police are looking for two suspects they said stole cash registers in smash-and-grabs at restaurants in North Park.
The 15-year-old girl is facing murder charges after CPD said she pushed a man from a moving CTA Red Line train on Labor Day.
A 15-year-old boy is charged with multiple felonies for an April shooting that killed a Hyde Park Academy student and hurt a 16-year-old girl.
Josh Jacobs pleaded no contest Thursday to misdemeanor battery and criminal damage charges; the NFL said it is reviewing the case under its personal conduct policy and Jacobs remains on the commissioner's exempt list.
