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Prisoners who go on the run could have the time cut from their sentence, internal Government papers revealed last night. Convicts will be able to count both the day they absconded and the day they were caught as time spent behind bars. A criminal could walk out of an open jail in the morning and hand himself in the next day, and both days would count as time served. The Tories accused the Government of 'rewarding bad behaviour'.

FREDONIA - They stood shoulder to shoulder - in the gray uniforms and camouflage fatigues of the State Police - as the American flag was lowered to half staff. One sang "Amazing Grace." With those simple acts, the mourning for Trooper Joseph A. Longobardo began. Shortly after a Sunday evening news conference in which he announced Longobardo's death, State Police Superintendent Wayne E. Bennett asked reporters to cover a brief ceremony conducted outside the Fredonia substation of the State Police. "I think without any words being spoken, that sends a very powerful message to the public about what has gone...

William Herskovic, who helped fuel the Belgian resistance during World War II after escaping from the Auschwitz concentration camp, has died. He was 91. Herskovic died Friday at his Encino home after a lengthy battle with cancer, said his daughter, Patricia Herskovic. He was the longtime operator of Bel Air Camera in Westwood, which he opened soon after moving to Los Angeles in 1957. Three months after arriving at Auschwitz, Herskovic fled the camp on the first night of Hanukkah in 1942, cutting through a chain-link fence to freedom with two other prisoners using a pair of wire cutters he...

Crossville, Cumberland County (WVLT) – Police in Crossville are in a standoff with an escaped prison inmate from Louisiana in the Woodmere Mall in Crossville. According to police, a second escaped inmate, Joseph Oakes, 27, from Meridian Mississippi, was captured at the mall earlier this morning. Authorities tell Volunteer TV News the man still inside the mall is 18-year-old Terrance Williams of New Orleans. Recent police scanner traffic indicates possible shots fired inside the mall. Williams is serving time for second degree murder, while Oakes is convicted of armed robbery. Police believe the two are a part of a group...

Fort Madison, IA — The second of two inmates who escaped from an Iowa prison was caught Friday in southern Missouri, officials said. Robert Joseph Legendre, 27, serving a sentence for attempted murder, was captured in Steele, Mo., officials said. On Thursday, convicted murderer Martin Moon, 34, had been caught near Chester, Ill. The men scaled a wall Monday at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, about 325 miles from where Legendre was captured. Steele police Chief Mike Tomlinson found Legendre at a truck stop, in a pickup truck that had been reported stolen, said Ryan Holder, a Pemiscott...

FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) -- A convicted murderer who escaped from an Iowa prison this week by using a homemade grappling hook to scale a 30-foot limestone wall was captured Thursday in Illinois. A second inmate remained at large. Martin Moon, 34, was caught after he was found sleeping in a stolen car in the town of Chester, near an Illinois prison. He told investigators he was on his way to Tennessee but gave no reason, authorities said. Moon and Robert Joseph Legendre, 27, broke out of the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison on Monday night. Authorities said the...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2005 – Afghan National Army soldiers and U.S. paratroopers with 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment (Airborne), discovered a large cache of weapons, ammunition, mines and documents Nov. 1 in southern Ghazni, in east-central Afghanistan, U.S. military officials reported today. The cache consisted of a heavy machine gun, light machine guns, assault rifles, recoilless rifles, mortar systems with rounds, thousands of rounds of small-arms and light-machine-gun ammunition, 135 rocket-propelled grenades, two crates of fragmentation grenades, and improvised explosive device-making materials, officials said. The items were taken to a nearby forward operating base and destroyed. "This find is significant...

/begin my translation N. Korea: 200 Dollar Bounty per Escaped N. Korean Workers in Russia  N. Koreans workers encountered in Khabarovsk     In order to encourage the arrest of N. Korean escapees(N. Korean workers who escaped from N. Korea-operated enterprise inside Russia,) N. Korean Consulate at Khabarovsk, Russia, announced that local Security Dept. of Construction Association is offering a bounty of $200 for catching an escapee, in order to root out this long-running problem.   As a result, N. Korean workers, who can barely earn $300 per month even after back-breaking work, are now abandoning all other efforts to capitalize on the only opportunity for earning large...

Three North Koreans Flee to South Three apparent defectors from North Korea were found on Friday morning, two in the West Sea and one in Gangwon Province, a day after a show of inter-Korean unity marking the fifth anniversary of the June 15 Joint Declaration came to an end in Pyongyang. Police and military officials are investigating how the three crossed the DMZ and whether they intended to defect. Soldiers on Friday patrol the village of Daema in Choelwon County, Gangwon Province where a North Korean defector was discovered earlier that day. Early on Friday morning, a 65-year-old Cheolwon...

Michael S. Dukakis, former ultra-liberal Governor of Massachusetts observed, "Who would have thought he'd turn out to be a poet?" That “who” is Norman A. Porter, also known as J. J. Jameson, one of Chicago’s prominent anti-war figures and a member of the community of leftist anti-war poets.  Jameson, the author of two books, a congregation leader at a church, and named Chicagopoetry.com's poet of the month in March 2004, was the very model of a modern “enlightened” cultural leader.  He is also a man whose two life sentences were commuted by Mike Dukakis. Porter is a double-murderer.  He...

The coming economic crisis. Unemployment. Health care for the poor. The almost 1,500 dead soldiers. The almost 100,000 dead Iraqis. Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher. The Christian Conservative takeover of our nation. The missing 9 billion. The missing weapons of mass destruction. The impending invasion of Iran, and Syria. The total failure to protect us on 9-11.

Marshals Find Convict Freed by Mistake Friday January 07, 2005 7:09am Washington (AP) - U.S. Marshals say they've captured the man who was mistakenly set free from the D.C. jail last week. Forty-year-old Frank Vargo was convicted in November of robbing and stabbing a cabdriver in Southwest Washington. Vargo, who has used many aliases, was tracked to a hotel in Miami Beach. Authorities tell The Washington Post that Vargo was taken into custody by members of the Capitol Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, who traveled to Florida after learning Vargo was there.

Mark R. Garrett walked away from a Federal Bureau of Prisons Halfway House in Jacksonville around 8 p.m. Wednesday evening. Garrett has a lengthy criminal history of aggravated assault and weapons charges. At the time of his escape, Garrett was serving a prison sentence after being convicted for threatening the President of the United States. Garrett was last seen wearing all black clothing.

North Korea Builds 400 Km Fence, Sets Traps to Stop Defectors It has been learned that North Korea is building a 400 km wooden fence from Shinuiju, North Pyongan Province to Onsong, North Hamgyong Province in order to put a stop to the recent exodus of defectors from the country. In a telephone conversation with this reporter, an officer in a North Korean border guard unit said, "In accordance with an order from the National Defense Commission calling for us to completely seal the border, border guard units and all the citizens of the border regions were mobilized and have...

Three rounds of gunfire and three misses. Before his afternoon arrest in the bathroom of a coffeehouse at 49th and Dodge Streets, Michael E. McGuire acquired a hostage, two guns, a rental car and cash. McGuire stayed in the hostage's apartment at 4810 Capitol Ave., taking the man out when he needed help and, at other times, leaving him there, handcuffed so he couldn't escape. Five days of stolen freedom ended Saturday afternoon in dramatic fashion with a capture involving gunshots and a chase. And in a way that McGuire's lawyer says the escapee never wanted: with the target of...

N. Korean Escapee broke into Chinese foreign ministry (Abbreviated Translation in English) N. Korean escapees of 7 people including the family of four broke into the compound of Chinese foreign ministry building in Chaoyang District to present an application for refugee protection. All were arrested on the spot. This incident will create a serious repurcussion because this is the first time North Korean escapees demanded to Chinese Government a refugee status for them. They were carrying pickets and leaflets with them to distribute while they stage a demnostration inside a compound. They claimed that they are from an organization "N....