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Oct 18, 2007 4:23 AM CDT

Escaped Con Busted After 35 Years

Husband killer raised new family in Tennessee

(Newser) - An escaped Indiana inmate convicted of murdering her husband has been arrested after living 35 years in Tennessee, where she remarried and raised a family. The 64-year-old woman escaped while serving a life sentence in 1972. She was living with her third husband and two of her seven children...

Supreme Court Will Take Up Lethal Injection

Sep 25, 2007 2:40 PM CDT

Supreme Court Will Take Up Lethal Injection

Constitutionality at issue; docket also includes voting rights

(Newser) - The Supreme Court will take up the constitutionality of lethal injections in what a public defender called one of the most critical death penalty cases “in decades.” The challenge stems from a 2004 suit by two Kentucky inmates on death row who charged that the method constitutes cruel...

Jailbird Heads to Hooters

Aug 31, 2007 6:17 PM CDT

Jailbird Heads to Hooters

Inmate fled jail while taking out the trash

(Newser) - A convict who managed to extract himself from the county jail in an Indiana town Sunday while taking out the trash was caught yesterday after he was unable to resist bragging about the caper to new-found friends at a nearby Hooters. Charles Smith, the 56-year-old escapee, wasn't even missed until...

Fattest States in America

Aug 27, 2007 8:36 PM CDT

Fattest States in America

(Newser) - The Trust for America's Health has come out with its fourth annual report on obesity. And the losers are:

Mississippi
West Virginia
Alabama

Indiana Mine Shaft Fall Kills 3

Aug 10, 2007 5:54 PM CDT

Indiana Mine Shaft Fall Kills 3

Workers fell 500 feet

(Newser) - Three workers riding in a construction bucket plunged 500 feet to their deaths in an Indiana coal mine shaft today. The “sinking bucket” can hold up to 10 people, but authorities did not say whether anyone else was in the lift. It was also unclear whether the bucket itself...

Stewart Lays a Win at Brickyard

Jul 30, 2007 6:40 AM CDT

Stewart Lays a Win at Brickyard

Montoya places, Gordon Shows at Allstate 400 in Tony's backyard

(Newser) - Tony Stewart took the Allstate 400 in his home state of Indiana yesterday, two weeks after he snapped a winless streak at the USG Sheetrock 400. The Home Depot driver battled for the lead all afternoon, finally grabbing the checkered flag by a 2.98-second margin over Juan Pablo Montoya.

Home Foreclosures Hit Record

Jun 14, 2007 3:16 PM CDT

Home Foreclosures Hit Record

A dreary real estate market is fueling an all-time high rate of foreclosures

(Newser) - Home foreclosures hit a record high in first-quarter 2007 as more subprime borrowers failed to make their mortgage payments. The number of mortgages entering foreclosure spiked four basis points to 0.58% and over 2.4% of subprime mortgage holders defaulted, up from 2% last quarter, according to a report...