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Video at link. SEATTLE — Amanda Knox hasn't slept much since arriving back in Seattle after four years in an Italian prison, her father said on Thursday. "I think she's literally running on adrenaline right now, because she hasn't slept very much — hardly at all. I think she's so joyful to be around her family and kind of reconnect with everybody," Curt Knox to KOMO Radio. She's taking things one day at a time. "It is going to take some time before we figure out what that new normal will be," he said. The 24-year-old former University of Washington...

AMANDA KNOX ACQUITTED, TO BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY

*snip* Knox’s appeal is now under way, and critical evidence used to convict her actually shows she’s innocent, says Boise State professor Greg Hampikian, a forensic DNA expert who volunteered to help the Knox defense. *snip* The DNA that investigators did find matched African drifter Rudy Guede, who had not previously been a suspect. “There’s a great amount of DNA … and it is all Rudy Guede’s,” Hampikian said. A bloody handprint on a wall and the feces were Guede’s, he said. *snip* The knife did not test positive for blood. It did contain a small amount of the victim’s...

Amanda Knox has been granted a review of the forensic evidence used to convict her of the murder of student Meredith Kercher. The 23-year-old American is trying to overturn her conviction after being jailed last year for 26 years for the killing in Perugia, Italy, in 2007. Miss Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, south London, was found with her throat cut. A review would include the disputed DNA evidence found on a knife and on the clasp of Miss Kercher's bra. Knox's former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, was jailed for 25 years for the murder. He is appealing together with Knox. The...

Tearful Amanda Knox today insisted she was innocent of the murder of Meredith Kercher and that an "enormous mistake" was being made by keeping her in jail at the start of her appeal hearing. Knox, 23, broke down several times as she addressed the court for almost twenty minutes in an emotional and quivering voice, as she stressed she had nothing to do with Meredith's brutal murder.

When Amanda Knox returned to the female wing of prison at Capanne, outside Perugia, after her guilty verdict she was comforted by her three cellmates — a Roma woman, a Chinese woman and a woman from Kosovo — who gave her warm milk and biscuits. According to Luciano Ghirga, her lawyer, “they have facilities to cook together in the cell and watch TV”. She is allowed an hour of exercise outside the cell in mornings and afternoons. Her routine will not change now that she is a convicted murderer. Lawyers say that Knox has also been befriended by the warders,...