Sweat "acted like he knew [Mitchell] for years," former inmate says. — -- As both a prison employee and a corrections officer face charges for allegedly helping convicted murderers Richard Matt ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The former prison tailor who helped two killers escape a maximum-security New York prison was released Thursday after more than four years behind bars. Joyce Mitchell, 55, was released ...

DANNEMORA, N.Y. -- Search teams hindered by cool, rainy weather combed through woods for an 11th day trying to track down two escaped murderers on Tuesday as one official raised doubts the escapees ...

DANNEMORA, N.Y. -- Investigators tracking two murder convicts who escaped from a northern New York prison scoured a rural area Sunday near the Pennsylvania border after possible sightings shifted the ...

DANNEMORA, N.Y. -- The woman charged with helping two murderers escape from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York had discussed with them a murder-for-hire plot involving her husband, ...

David Sweat and Richard Matt's escape from the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York baffled law enforcement and state officials in June 2015. The escape inspired the ...

Two killers on the run from a northern New York prison for three weeks disagreed over whether to hole up in hunting cabin — one worried about being captured while the other suggested they could kill ...

Prison escapee David Sweat was shot and captured Sunday just south of the Canadian border, ending an statewide manhunt that spanned more than three weeks. "Today ends with good news," Gov. Andrew ...