Tags: Prison

A Kansas City man was charged on Wednesday with trying to fire-bomb the local office of Missouri U.S. Democratic Representative Emanuel Cleaver using two bottles filled with charcoal lighter fluid, prosecutors said.

A teenager serving a life sentence for shooting dead three Cleveland-area high school students in 2012 was caught about 100 yards from the Ohio prison's perimeter fence he had scaled to escape just hours earlier, officials said on Friday.

Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide on Friday, escaping the more serious charge of murder for the killing of his girlfriend, and will now battle to avoid going to prison.