pennsylvania Watch: Murderer escapes Pennsylvania prison with quick crab-like vanishing act (video) Carla Sinclair

folklore The Bunny Man was a real hatchet-wielder in 1970 Virginia — but the internet turned him into something else entirely Ellsworth Toohey

crime Escaped Pennsylvania murderer back in custody Rob Beschizza

Pennsylvania Escaped killer was shot at by resident but stole a rifle and fled — now "armed and extremely dangerous" Carla Sinclair

law South Carolina's magistrate judges are a clown-car of corrupt cronies, but they get to put people in jail Cory Doctorow

law Court orders carriers to remotely brick phones that have been smuggled into prisons Cory Doctorow

drug war Profile of Anthony Papa, the only person to have received clemency and a pardon in New York state Mark Frauenfelder

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