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CNN — A Pennsylvania killer who escaped from prison nearly two weeks ago has been spotted again, this time with authorities warning he is “possibly armed with a weapon.” Danelo Cavalcante was sighted in Chester County’s South Coventry Township, about 20 miles north of the prison he escaped from, according to an alert sent to area residents from Chester County 911 on Monday night. “The Pennsylvania State Police are receiving reports of escaped convict Danelo Cavalcante in the area of Ridge Rd/Coventryville Rd/Daisy Point Rd in South Coventry Township possibly armed with a weapon,” the alert read. “Residents in the...

It’s been 10 days since convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante shimmied up a wall at the Chester County Prison and scurried to freedom. There have been nearly a dozen confirmed sightings — including two on Friday — in Chester County since the 34-year-old Brazilian national’s Aug. 31 escape, and officials have assigned more cops to the manhunt, CNN reported Saturday. “We pulled more people in through the night last night,” Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said Friday, adding that the state police and other agencies have sent reinforcements. “We have got numerous tactical teams that are out doing searches.”...

In 2002, Jonathan Richardson was sentenced to 55 years in prison for killing his 11-month-old stepdaughter. He now claims to be a transgender named Autumn Cordellione and wants the state to fund the "sex reassignment" surgery that Indiana law prohibits the Department of Corrections from providing. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing Indiana on Richardson's behalf. ACLU spokesman Bertram Petty asserted that "while Autumn admitted to strangling 'the little f**king bitch' back in 2001, that doesn't mean she forfeits her constitutional rights. If it weren't for the misfortune of being born male, she wouldn't have been forced into...

Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal Filhowho (Image credit: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) An illegal alien from Brazil, previously sentenced for torturing and murdering 11 people, was just arrested in New Hampshire. Thousands of criminals enter the U.S. illegally every year under the Biden administration’s disastrous border policies.Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal Filho, a former Brazilian military police officer convicted in Brazil of committing a massacre, was arrested by immigration officers Monday in New Hampshire, The Post Millennial reported. The massacre of 11 individuals, including multiple teens, was reportedly in retaliation for the murder of a Fortaleza, Brazil, police...

CHICAGO — A Minnesota man traveled to Chicago twice last year to rob banks, but he lost the money when someone stole his car with the cash inside, according to a federal criminal complaint. Alan Duncan, a convicted murderer, is charged with robbing Selfreliance Federal Credit Union, 2332 West Chicago Avenue, on November 20. Duncan returned to Minnesota after the robbery and is suspected of returning to Chicago ten days later to rob another bank. But Duncan confided in his brother that he lost the money — and more — when someone stole his car with the cash inside. Three...

A Pennsylvania man out on bail for two prior shootings is now facing three murder charges in the slayings of two young boys and a teenager, according to prosecutors. Alex Torres-Santos, 22, allegedly opened fire on a home in Lebanon around 10 p.m. Wednesday, killing 19-year-old Joshua Lugo-Perez and fatally striking 8- and 9-year-old brothers who were all on the back porch at the time of the shooting, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital. Authorities believe Lugo-Perez was the intended target. He was not related to the two children, but Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--A judge has called on the Nashville government to provide unredacted copies of a mass school shooter's manifesto for review by the court. The call for documents comes as part of the Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA) lawsuit against the city regarding the release of the manifesto belonging to The Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale. Hale took the lives of three 9-year-old children and three adult staff members on March 27 of this year. The TFA, alongside former Hamilton County Sheriff James Hammond, filed a lawsuit against the government with the hopes of a court order to disclose the manifesto...

The man accused of fatally shooting five people, including a 9-year-old boy, was caught hiding underneath laundry in a Texas home Tuesday after a four-day manhunt. Alleged gunman Francisco Oropesa, 38, was arrested in Montgomery County around 6:30 p.m. – just 75 minutes after a tip came in that alerted law enforcement to the fugitive’s whereabouts, authorities said. The suspect, a Mexican national who’s reportedly been deported four times, was taken into custody without incident. San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers called the suspect a “coward” in a Tuesday night press conference and said Oropesa was “caught hiding in a...

[Catholic Caucus] Assisted suicide: Paglia's OK destroys MagisteriumThe president of the Pontifical Academy for Life Vincenzo Paglia has given his OK to the assisted suicide law from the columns of Renzi's newspaper Il Riformista. In a plethora of heresies and leaning on the liberalist drifts of current social conditions and widespread pluralism, the bishop openly contradicts the Magisterium and the pronouncements of the Italian Bishops' Conference, even going so far as to say that the Church does not own the truth on these issues.Bishop Paglia is open to the assisted suicide law” read the front page of Il Riformista [The...

Filming of the movie "Rust" will resume this week. On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Rust Movie Productions told CNN that principal photography of "Rust" is set to resume Thursday at Yellowstone Film Ranch in Montana. Production on the western starring Alec Baldwin came to a halt in 2021, when cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot when a prop gun Baldwin was holding fired a live round of ammunition during rehearsal.

CHICAGO (AP) — When the U.S. prisons director visited the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, this past week, she stopped by the federal death row where Bruce Webster is in a solitary, 12-by-7 foot cell, 23 hours a day. Webster’s not supposed to be there. A federal judge in Indiana ruled in 2019 that the 49-year-old has an IQ in the range of severe intellectual disability and so cannot be put to death. But four years on, the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Prisons haven’t moved him to a less restrictive unit or different prison.

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A Las Vegas event that was set to feature Kyle Rittenhouse has been postponed. The "Guns In The Library" event was going to be hosted by Vegas CCW at the East Las Vegas library on May 13. However, officials said the event is being put on hold after event organizers confront Rittenhouse's booking manager, Brian Elliot of Premiere Speakers Bureau, due to that company exploiting speakers from both sides of the gun control issue. "This strikes a blow at an issue we are simply trying to understand," Nephi Khaliki, organizer for the mass CCW event, said....

For a year and a half, Alex Murdaugh denied he was anywhere near where his wife, Maggie, and 22-year-old son, Paul, were brutally killed. But it was one of his victims -- his son -- who would provide key proof after his death that legal experts say exposed his father's web of lies and ultimately led to his conviction in the double homicide. "It is ironic, in the end, that it was the victim, Paul Murdaugh, who solved his own murder," Dave Aronberg, state attorney for Florida's Palm Beach County, told CNN Thursday night. Murdaugh, a now disgraced former South...

A 25-year-old migrant who posed as a minor to illegally cross the border was sentenced to 60 years for killing the father of four who took him in. Yery Noel Medina Ulloa of Honduras pleaded guilty Friday in Florida to stabbing Francisco Javier Cuellar, 46, to death in 2021 — days after the Florida man took the illegal migrant into his care. “As we have seen time and time again, the federal government’s failure to secure our nation’s border has led to a travesty in a local community,” State Attorney Melissa Nelson said in a statement. Cops said they found...

A Florida man with "an extremely violent past" is accused of fatally shooting four family members, including his own 15-year-old daughter, at a home early Wednesday, authorities said.

On July 27, 2022, 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton from Aberdeen, Maryland was raped and strangled to death in her bed, according to WMAR Baltimore. Investigators learned that Hamilton was autistic and that she had recently moved to the area with her boyfriend. DNA evidence collected at the scene led investigators to a 17-year-old boy from El Salvador who entered the United States last March as an “unaccompanied minor.” The suspect, whose name has not been revealed, is listed in El Salvador as a member of Malva Salvatrucha, which is MS-13, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to Fox 6 Now. Now,...

Judicial Watch announced today it received 31 pages of documents from the Department of the Air Force, Joint Base Andrews, MD, that show U.S. Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd was housed at taxpayer expense at Joint Base Andrews after he shot and killed U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The records were obtained in response to a September 2022 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after Joint Base Andrews, the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, and the FBI failed...

A knife sheath discovered next to one of the four Idaho students killed in November had DNA on it that matched DNA found on trash from the home of the criminology graduate student charged in the stabbings, investigators allege in court records released Thursday. Additionally, a phone registered to that man, Bryan Kohberger, was near the victims’ home at least 12 times between June and the day of the killings, according to an affidavit of probable cause. One of the surviving housemates saw a man dressed in black and wearing a mask leaving the home around 4 a.m. that day,...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Wednesday on FNC’s “America Reports” that Russia’s war in Ukraine will end when President Vladimir Putin is taken out by somebody in Russia. Anchor John Roberts asked, “When you say all in, senator, would you agree to give Zelensky what he says he wants, which is the long-range attack artillery missiles, would you give him Gray Eagle drones, would you give him Reaper drones, would you give him all that?” Graham said, “I would give him the ability to dislodge Russians from his country. Right now, the Biden administration has done more – and...