The man stopped by police for a bad light over his license plate gave his name as James Sweet. But fingerprints don’t lie. A suspicious cop started asking questions and “Sweet” eventually admitted he was Bennie Wint, who supposedly drowned off Daytona Beach in September 1989.

A family of four has been found dead in a Whitehall, Ohio, home, in what’s believed to be a murder-suicide, authorities said Thursday.

A military judge Thursday refused to delay proceedings against the accused mastermind of the bombing of the destroyer USS Cole despite President Obama’s call for a temporary halt to trials of suspected terrorists.

For three years, family, friends and her college sorority sisters have been looking for Jennifer Kesse, wondering what happened to her. The 24-year-old financial analyst disappeared, apparently on her way to work. Now an inmate in a Florida prison says he has information that can crack the case. The police are not so sure.

The bodies of five children and two adults were found Tuesday in a home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington, and authorities are investigating the case as a murder-suicide, CNN affiliate KABC and the Los Angeles Times reported.

A Florida company is suspending sales of its “Caylee Sunshine” doll following a public outcry that included members of slain toddler Caylee Anthony’s family. The doll would have been offered for .99.

Two months before dying, a Virginia woman confessed to killing two women nearly 42 years ago, authorities said Friday, telling police she shot the women because they had taunted her for being a lesbian.

Eight inmates were wounded — one by gunfire — during a fight Sunday at a federal prison in Florida, officials said.

Two people were killed and seven were wounded when someone opened fire on a crowd of people standing at a Miami street corner Friday night, police said.

Prison Coffee Table Book Project, Vol. 1
by “Uncle” Roy Dunlap and Carol E. Briney
An unprecedented 3-year national arts collaboration with the inmates and the authors, this project provides the reader with glimpses into the intellect, creative mind, and world of individuals incarcerated in America’s prisons. Each contribution has its own voice, its own story, and [...]