Susan Denise Atkins, a former member of the Manson family who killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate during a two-day killing spree in 1969, has died. She was 61.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday gave a death-row inmate a one-week reprieve after authorities tried for hours to find a vein to administer his lethal injection.

A South Carolina man who state prosecutors said had the biggest collection of child pornography they had ever seen has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Former Manson Family member Susan Atkins, who stabbed actress Sharon Tate to death more than 40 years ago and now is terminally ill, was denied parole on Wednesday, California prison officials said. Atkins, who has brain cancer, is almost sure to die in prison.

A man convicted of manslaughter attempted to break back into the jail by climbing over three layers of razor wire fencing. He said the victim’s family threatened his life, and he demanded to be rebooked.

Frank Hatley spent the past year in jail for being a deadbeat dad. But there’s one problem—Hatley doesn’t have any children. And the “deadbeat” label doesn’t fit the 50-year-old either.

A three-letter typo has slashed years off a prison sentence for a repeat drug offender in Ohio.

South Carolina authorities say a man serving time for a home invasion in Tennessee has been linked through DNA to the killing of a couple four years ago.

A South Carolina woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for her role in a crime spree that ended in a two-day standoff with police at a western Maryland motel in August.

A man on death row for killing a South Carolina woman is being allowed to review testimony from witnesses he said changed their stories.

Anyone convicted in South Carolina of breaking into someone’s home with a weapon and seriously injuring or killing those inside would be sent to prison for at least 25 years under a bill up for debate.

A South Carolina inmate serving time for several traffic violations has escaped by stealing a county-owned sport utility vehicle and driving away from his work assignment.

A defense contractor in South Carolina has donated several dozen .40 caliber semiautomatic pistols to the state’s prisons department.

An Indiana financial manager who authorities say tried to fake his death in a plane crash is now in a jail cell.

Hulk Hogan son released from jail.