Belgian convict escapes after helicopter crash lands in jail
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A notorious criminal escaped from a Belgian prison Sunday after a helicopter crash-landed inside the prison grounds, the local public prosecutor said.
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A British citizen released from jail after spending more than two decades on Ohio's death row was forced to wait before returning home when his flight was canceled Tuesday because of bad weather.
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Pete Doherty, former frontman of the acclaimed British rock group the Libertines, escaped jail when he was given a four-month suspended sentence for possession of a switchblade knife.
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A man who escaped jail in a helicopter in 2001 and organised a similar breakout in 2003, uses the method to flee again.
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A convicted triple-murderer escaped from the Kentucky State Reformatory early Tuesday but was quickly caught, corrections officials said.
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A 19-year-old German woman has escaped  from prison by hiding in a friend's suitcase.
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Two people escaped with minor injuries after a helicopter crashed into the Long Island Sound, flipping the aircraft and snapping off its tail, police said.
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Police hunt a prisoner who escaped from his handcuffs and the custody of Reliance security guards in Fife.
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An Islamic militant jailed over a deadly bomb attack on the island of Sulawesi escapes prison, officials say.
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A law student who used taxis to escape with loot from dozens of house break-ins has been jailed after police in Australia caught him red-handed in the back of a cab fleeing his latest heist.
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French police arrest a man suspected of joyriding in a stolen aircraft and escaping from waiting police.
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Police in the Canary Islands arrest a man as the hijacking of a Mauritanian plane ends safely, officials say.
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Irish police arrested a 36-year-old Greek man Tuesday over an "air rage" incident that forced a Delta Air Lines flight to make an emergency landing at Shannon airport in western Ireland.
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A coach carrying British tourists crashes in Belgium, leaving 23 people injured, it is reported.
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Four federal inmates, including a convicted rapist, used metal torn from a mop bucket to carve a hole in the ceiling and escaped from the town jail, police said.
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OJ Simpson walks free from jail after a judge brands him 'arrogant' and 'ignorant' for breaking the terms of his bail in a robbery case
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A 19-year-old German woman has escaped from prison by hiding in a friend's suitcase.