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CORCORAN, Calif. - A California parole board on Wednesday denied aging mass murderer Charles Manson's bid for freedom at his 12th parole hearing. Manson, 77, did not show up for the hearing, even though it could be his last opportunity to ask for freedom. He has been denied release on parole...

AP - A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole. More...

Dennis Cheeseman, one of two men convicted in the 2005 deaths of four Alberta RCMP officers on a farm near Mayerthorpe, Alta., is seeking full parole. Cheeseman and his brother-in-law gave James Roszko a gun and a ride back to his farm prior to the shooting deaths of the officers. He pleaded...

A convicted sex offender who was previously released from prison and then arrested by the Regina police is scheduled to get out again in three months, National Parole Board documents say. Benjamin Moore, 39, was sentenced to two years and two months for inappropriately touching a young child...

A man convicted of killing two women in the Fraser Valley has been sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 23 years. Davey Mateo Butorac, 32, was found guilty of second-degree murder in July 2010 in the deaths of the two women. The conviction carries an automatic life...

Patricia Krenwinkel was denied parole for the 13th time on Thursday for her role in a murder spree more than 40 years ago. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2011/01/21/krenwinkel.parole.denial.cnn -- Patricia Krenwinkel, a Charles Manson follower who went on a string of murders more than 40...

A U.S. citizen imprisoned in Peru for 15 years for aiding leftist rebels was released from prison Monday after a Peruvian court granted her parole her last week. Peruvian television showed Lori Berenson leaving Lima's Chorrillos Penitentiary. Berenson, 40, was sentenced to life in prison in...

A Peruvian court has granted parole to a U.S. citizen who has been imprisoned since 1995 for aiding leftist rebels. Lori Berenson has already served 15 years of a 20-year sentence for collaborating with the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement to attack the nation's congress and overthrow the...

Survivors contest 1967 murderer's parole NORTHLAKE, Ill., The survivors of two Illinois police officers murdered in 1967 say they will contest the parole of one of the convicted killers at an upcoming hearing. Henry Michael Gargano, now 77, and two other men killed Northlake police Detective...

Manson 'family' member parole denied SACRAMENTO, (UPI) -- A former member of the Charles Manson family has had his parole recommendation denied by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. In January, Bruce Davis, 67, serving two life sentences for the 1969 killings of Spahn movie ranch farmhand...

Pot smoker accused of trying to bribe urine tester -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – A pot-smoking parolee in Colorado faces criminal charges for allegedly offering a cash bribe to try to pass a drug test. Police said a...