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A man who skipped town to Indiana, then made it easy for police to find him through postings on Facebook and MySpace, was sentenced Wednesday to one year in jail on a misdemeanor charge.
Christopher K. Crego, 39, was extradited from Indiana after he missed his sentencing in October on third-degree assault. He also dodged community service for violating a conditional discharge for driving while ability impaired, authorities said.
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LOS ANGELES Just days after her release from prison on parole, Sara Jane Olson, a former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive who hid for years by posing as an ordinary housewife, was taken back into custody, authorities said Saturday.
Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections, would give no details as to why Olson was detained, but said there have been "a lot of developments" in the case.
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An Ohio prisoner, who escaped last month just days before his release, was arrested by Charleston police on Thursday and now faces two felony charges.
Police arrested John McAllister, 35, after he was spotted breaking into a vehicle in the 400 block of Virginia Street West and running into a nearby house, said police Lt. A.C. Napier.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., March 17, 2011, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Innovations in agriculture, the discovery of a 12,000-year-old mastodon, the early days of the oil industry, and a community's challenge to the Fugitive Slave Act are among the 13 new historical markers approved by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) at its March 16 meeting.
The new markers, selected from 54 applications, will be added to the nearly 2,200 familiar blue-with-gold-lettering signs that dot roads and streets across Pennsylvania.
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Mafia-related fugitive nabbed after 2 days
VERSAILLES, Ky. - Authorities say they've caught a Mafia- affiliated fugitive who spent two days on the run after kicking out the door of a prison van in Kentucky.
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A Garfield woman who was on the Allegheny County Sheriff Department's list of "Most Wanted" fugitives was found hiding in a North Side apartment, said Lt. Jack Kearney, a deputy sheriff.
Luvenia Smith, 49, who was wanted for violating conditions of her probation or parole, found refuge in the apartment of someone who was in the hospital, Kearney said. She was arrested without incident Friday night.
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I wish [Bill Ayers] would make a real apology for the harm he did to the antiwar movement and the left. Not another "regrets, I've had a few," "we were all young once," "don't forget there was a war on" exercise in self-promotion, but one that showed he actually gets it. I'd like him to say he's sorry for his part in the destruction of Students for a Democratic Society. He's sorry he helped Nixon make the antiwar movement look like the enemy of ordinary people. He's sorry for his more-radical-than-thou posturing, and the climate of apocalyptic nuttiness he helped fuel to disastrous results, of which the fatal Brinks robbery, committed by erstwhile comrades, was only the most notorious.
On Saturday's New York Times op-ed page, he announced that "it's finally time to tell my true story." ...
... my true story." And like his memoir, Fugitive Days, "The Real Bill Ayers" is a sentimentalized s...
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CHICAGO - Bill Ayers, the Vietnam War-era radical who was a campaign headache for Barack Obama, says in a new afterword to his memoir that the two were neighbors and family friends.
Ayers' reflections appear in a new paperback release of his 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days." The Associated Press obtained a copy of the new afterword Thursday.
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Gov. Janet Napolitano said on May 14 that her decision to redirect more than $1 million from a task force charged with enforcing the state's human smuggling laws was driven by a need to track down and arrest thousands of fugitive felony suspects.
Days earlier, Napolitano ordered the Arizona Department of Public Safety to form and lead a multi-jurisdictional law enforcement effort targeting the state's estimated 59,000 individuals with outstanding felony warrants.
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The state's attorney's office has decided to extradite a man accused of being the East Coast Rapist to Virginia instead of first trying him here in connection with a 2007 rape of a woman in her city home.
Earlier this month, Connecticut served Aaron Thomas, 40, of New Haven, with a fugitive from justice warrant, though he is being held here. On Nov. 4, two days later, he was served with a governor's warrant seeking his return to Virginia.