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DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — A prison staffer faces criminal charges for allegedly helping two convicted killers break out of a maximum security prison in far northern New York. One of the charges filed carries a prison sentence of up to 7 years. Joyce Mitchell had contact with the convicts through a prison tailor shop where they worked. Meanwhile, the search is being hampered by rain. A police official says the pair could be cold, wet and hungry and possibly even more desperate.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Jurors in the Colorado theater shooting trial have been given a virtual tour of the auditorium where 12 people were shot to death. The panel was shown video taken by an investigator that moves past bodies wedged between rows of seats or sprawled throughout aisles amid spent ammunition, spilled popcorn and blood. Lawyers for James Holmes are using an insanity defense.
HOUSTON (AP) — A former Texas prosecutor has been stripped of his law license after a panel of the State Bar of Texas determined he withheld evidence and used false testimony to win a capital murder conviction against a now-exonerated death row inmate. Charles Sebesta has been cited for professional misconduct. Anthony Graves was on Texas death row for 12 years before a special prosecutor determined he should be freed and declared innocent.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The NAACP says it stands by the head of its Spokane, Washington, chapter following comments from her relatives that she is a white woman posing as black. Rachel Dolezal has been active in human rights, sits on a police oversight commission and teachers African studies to college students. Her parents produced pictures of Dolezal as a blonde, blue-eyed child. The NAACP issues a statement saying "racial identity is not a qualifying criteria or disqualifying standard" for serving in the civil rights organization.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Creditors say a former billionaire should remain in the Montana jail where he has been held for almost two months for not disclosing what happened to $13.8 million from a property sale in Mexico. Lawyers for creditors say more than 9,000 pages of financial documents submitted by Tim Blixseth are nothing but "repackaged mishmash." Blixeth founded Montana's ultra-exclusive and bankrupt Yellowstone Club. He's accused of draining it of $285 million.
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