A convicted Arkansas killer who escaped while on work detail has been captured. A spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Correction says the 40-year-old Jones was caught Thursday just after 3 p.m. Spokesman Solomon Graves said no other information would be immediately released. Lloyd Jones disappeared Monday while on a… Read More

The Pittsburgh Penguins turned around a once-disappointing season and fired a coach before winning a fourth Stanley Cup, adversity that seemed to make Wednesday’s city-wide celebration that much sweeter. Fans lined the victory parade route more than 10 deep as the players, coaches, their families and support staff rolled by… Read More

A 61-year-old Ohio grandmother says she used a bottle of perfume and a swift kick to get rid of a kidnapper. The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports a masked man approached Joyce Kenney as she stepped out of her Middletown home, grabbed her and forced her to drive him through the city. Kenney… Read More

New Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz says he became trapped in a bathroom of a New Jersey gas station and had to be rescued. Wentz tweeted out Wednesday night that he had to be rescued by attendants with garden sheers and another person with a “leg kick” after he became… Read More

Stephen Curry has had his shoulder wrapped in this series, been questioned about his level of fatigue, even had his choice of footwear shredded on Twitter. It hasn’t been the easiest time for the MVP. He could get the most perfect of endings anyway. Golden State’s point guard — the… Read More

A 9-year-old Central California boy braved strong currents and cold water to swim from San Francisco to Alcatraz Island and back. KSEE-TV in Fresno reported Tuesday that James Savage set a record as the youngest swimmer to make the journey to the former prison. The station reports that by completing the… Read More

Officials say a woman would’ve drowned inside her SUV following a crash if not for a New Jersey man, who sprinted into a river, pried open a door and carried her to safety. Police say the 50-year-old woman’s SUV jumped a curb in Nutley Tuesday morning and plunged into the… Read More

A huge turnout is expected in downtown Pittsburgh for the 2016 Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins victory parade. A parade after the team’s last Stanley Cup championship in 2009 drew nearly 400,000 people. The parade will begin at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, seven years ago to the day that the last… Read More

The opening to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” one of rock ‘n’ roll’s best-known ballads, was played for jurors Tuesday in a case brought by the estate of a dead musician that claims it was stolen by the men credited with creating it. A lawyer for the estate trustee of… Read More

The Riviera Hotel and Casino — the Las Vegas Strip’s first high-rise that was as famous for its mobster ties as its Hollywood personification of Sin City’s mobster past — officially exited the scene early Tuesday with a cinematic implosion, complete with fireworks. The 24-story Monaco Tower was demolished around… Read More