PLAINVIEW, Texas—A 22-year-old inmate was captured Sunday about 250 miles (400 kilometers) from the West Texas prison he had escaped from hours earlier after climbing over a fence, officials said. Trent Thompson had last been seen at the Formby Unit in Plainview about 11:14 p.m. Saturday, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said. He was…

A man accused of assaulting Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) in an elevator inside her Washington, D.C. apartment building in February pleaded guilty in federal court this week, officials said. Kendrick Hamlin, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of assault on a member of Congress, as well as two counts of assault on a law enforcement…

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A former correctional officer at the biggest women’s prison in California has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting at least 13 inmates over the past nine years, prosecutors said Wednesday. Gregory Rodriguez, who worked at the Central California Women’s Facility, faces 96 counts including rape, sodomy, sexual battery, and rape under color of…

NEW YORK—The actor Jonathan Majors was arrested Saturday in New York on charges of strangulation, assault, and harassment, authorities said. New York City police said that Majors, star of the recently released “Creed III” and “Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania,” was involved in a domestic dispute with a 30-year-old woman. Police responded around 11 a.m….

SMYRNA, Tenn.—Kyle Chrisley, the son of reality TV star Todd Chrisley of the show “Chrisley Knows Best,” has been charged with aggravated assault in Tennessee, authorities said. The arrest comes just months after his father and stepmother, Julie Chrisley, were both sentenced to several years in prison for charges including bank fraud and tax evasion….

Surveillance video of an incident that occurred on Feb. 10 shows a number of black students at Kenwood Elementary School in Springfield, Ohio, physically attacking white students and reportedly forcing them to say “black lives matter.” Police were not called to the school about the incident until Monday, Feb. 13. The video of the assault, which…

CANBERRA, Australia—Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios apologized for shoving a former girlfriend to the ground two years ago after he escaped conviction Friday on a charge of common assault. The 2022 Wimbledon runner-up pleaded guilty in the Australian Capital Territory Magistrates Court to assaulting Chiara Passari during an argument in his hometown of Canberra in…

Toronto police said they are looking for a group of up to 15 male youths who reportedly assaulted Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) workers on a bus on Jan. 23. Three uniformed TTC employees were allegedly attacked by the youths on a bus near Kennedy Road and Merrian Road in Scarborough, northeast of Toronto. Police said in a…

The Toronto police have arrested a suspect involved in the killing of a woman in the city’s downtown area on Friday morning. The police said in a Twitter statement that officers arrived at the area near Yonge Street and King Street at around 11:40 a.m. on Jan. 20, in response to reports of a male…

OTTUMWA, Iowa—A male nurse practitioner who died of a drug overdose at a private hospital in Iowa sexually assaulted at least nine female patients while they were sedated or unconscious, hospital and police officials said. The assaults at the Ottumwa Regional Health Center were discovered during investigations into the death of 27-year-old Devin Michael Caraccio,…