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During her nearly 300-day detainment in Russia, Brittney Griner didn’t think she would play basketball again let alone represent her country. On Tuesday, the two-time Olympic gold medalist expressed her thankfulness for the opportunity to play for Team USA again following her wrongful imprisonment abroad.

KUALA LUMPUR: Two men pleaded not guilty at the Magistrate’s Court here Thursday (Oct 26) to charges of extortion and wrongful imprisoning their former co-worker at a nightclub last week.

Leonard Allan Cure spent 16 years behind bars for a robbery he didn't commit. Less than three years after his release, he was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Georgia.

Amanda Knox, now 36, was convicted and then acquitted of the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy

US News: Jesse Johnson, a man who was sentenced to death for a 1998 murder in Oregon, has been released after the state dismissed the case against him. The Ore

Fogel, a Butler County native, is serving a 14-year sentence after being arrested at a Moscow airport with medical marijuana in his luggage in 2021.

"Harlem is the place that gave me a second chance," he said Tuesday night. “I am my ancestors wildest dream"

The 65-year-old spent 32 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of setting a 1982 fire that killed eight people.

A Missouri man who spent more than 40 years in prison for a triple murder he did not commit alleges in a lawsuit that Kansas City police conducted a reckless investigation that led to his conviction.

Saudi Arabia released a dual Saudi-United States citizen on Tuesday, after holding him in prison for more than a year. But he remains trapped overseas.