Angry Motel Guest Gets Free Night in Jail
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MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. - A man who called police when clerks refused to refund his money when he decided to not stay at their motel ended up with free accommodations anyway - at the county jail.  Phillip Ruch, 26, had checked into the Ramada Inn about 1 a.m.
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By BOB PURVIS  A Greendale man could go to jail if he is convicted of charges contending that he rented a condemned east side Milwaukee apartment to college students.  Mazin J.
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DALLAS - A judge welcomed a former fugitive back to her courtroom with balloons, streamers and a cake before sentencing him to life in prison.
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Screaming and crying, Paris Hilton was escorted out of a courtroom and back to jail Friday after a judge ruled that she must serve out her entire 45-day sentence behind bars rather than in her Hollywood Hills home.
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A man charged with killing four people during and after his escape from a courthouse asked a woman who later visited him in jail to describe the building's security, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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MILFORD, Conn. - A New Haven man returned to the Milford courtroom where he mooned the judge and this time he left with more prison time...
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A man jailed for kidnapping a student with a violent sex attack in mind had served time for a similar offence overseas.
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Two inmates, including one who was once accused of plotting to kidnap David Letterman's son, escaped Friday in a truck while working at a state prison ranch.
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A teen freed from prison this year after his life sentence for killing a young playmate was overturned received an extended probation period Friday after violating his curfew, and was freed once more.
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A slaying suspect escaped from a county jail by assuming the identity of another inmate and was on the loose for more than six hours before authorities realized he was gone, officials said. He was still at large Monday morning.
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A prison inmate accused of plotting to kidnap David Letterman's young son was on the loose early Monday after he and another man fled the Montana State Prison ranch in a truck.
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A sobbing Paris Hilton was sent to the medical wing of a Los Angeles jail where she was being treated for psychological problems on Friday after a judge overturned a sheriff department's decision to place the heiress under house arrest after just three days behind bars.
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A rapist freed early from prison is jailed for seven years for raping a woman who went to his aid.
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A condemned prisoner planned to tell a joke Tuesday as part of his final statement before being executed for the abduction and killing of a couple who lived next door to him.
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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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A night-shift nurse accused of sexually abusing at least two dozen elderly or disabled patients at a nursing home was in jail Wednesday, authorities said.
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A man who raped a 91-year-old woman and who police say poses a risk to the public, is to be released from jail.