Police capture escaped prisoner in Salem

Dec. 6, 2010   12 Comments  

Several law enforcement agencies, including Massachusetts State Police units searched for and captured a prisoner who briefly escaped from Salem District Court Monday. Karl Hackney is awaiting trial on gun and drug charges and slipped away sometime around noon. He was captured an hour later on Hawthorne Boulevard. According to the State Police, troopers from [...]

Obama orders Guantanamo shut

Jan. 22, 2009   Leave a Comment  

“As I said during the inauguration, we are not going to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals,” said Obama, IHT reports. “We are going to win this fight but we will win it on our terms.”