New York manhunt, Day 11: Search teams traipse through woods looking for...
DANNEMORA, N.Y. — Search teams headed back into the northern New York woods Tuesday for an 11th day of trying to track down two convicted murderers who broke out of a maximum-security prison using...
View ArticleNew York manhunt for escaped prisoners shifts west
DANNEMORA, N.Y. — State police moved their manhunt for two convicted murderers to an area west of the New York prison from which they boldly escaped more than two weeks ago, as officers began probing...
View ArticleItems recovered from cabin as search for escaped New York inmates continues
BELLMONT, N.Y. — Items recovered from a remote hunting cabin have been sent to labs for DNA testing to determine if they are linked to a pair of convicted killers who escaped from a nearby prison more...
View ArticleBack to the woods: Search continues for escaped murderers
BELLMONT, N.Y. — Hundreds of searchers checked ATV trails and logging roads and went door-to-door in far northern New York trying to close in on two murderers who escaped from a maximum-security prison...
View ArticleSecond guard charged in New York prison escape
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — A maximum-security prison guard who delivered frozen meat with tools hidden inside to two inmates before they escaped will be arraigned on charges of promoting prison contraband and...
View ArticleInvestigators say guard probably not knowingly involved in New York prison...
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — A prison guard who admitted giving two inmates tools, paint, frozen hamburger and access to a catwalk electrical box says he didn’t know the killers planned to break out, and...
View ArticleOfficial: Escaped murderer killed during manhunt
MALONE, N.Y. — One of two convicted killers who staged a brazen escape from an upstate maximum-security prison and had been hunted for three weeks was shot and killed Friday, and the other is on the...
View ArticleNew York prison escape shows flaws, inner workings of system
NEW YORK — It was dawn in the cellblocks of Dannemora, time for a round of bed checks on the convicted killers, rapists and other criminals held behind stark 19th-century walls. Guards went along the...
View ArticlePrisoner believing he was being slowed down led to split after New York escape
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — Two convicted killers who staged a complicated prison break together and then spent more than two weeks roaming in thick New York woods finally split up when one man decided his...
View ArticleWoman accused of aiding New York prison escape in court for arraignment
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — A northern New York prison worker accused of smuggling hacksaw blades in frozen hamburger meat to two killers who later broke out and spent more than two weeks on the run is due in...
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