Infamous Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover’s first court appearance in decades may have been via video link from a prison more than a thousand miles from Chicago, but the judge’s question still ...

The prison door seemed to permanently slam shut behind Larry Hoover 26 years ago, and many Chicagoans began to forget about him. Those who remember still compare him to Al Capone, the leader of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Infamous Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover is set to appear in court for the first time in decades Thursday as his long-shot ...

Rev. Michael Pfleger and former Chicago mayoral candidate Ja'Mal Green say they've lobbied Pritzker to free the onetime gang ...

President Donald Trump has commuted the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, but the 74-year-old notorious gang leader isn’t leaving prison anytime soon. The commutation applies to Hoover’s federal ...

Larry Hoover, the famed founder of the Gangster Disciples, had his life sentence commuted Wednesday by President Trump. Though Trump used his power to clear 74-year-old Hoover of federal charges, he ...

A former DeKalb County, Georgia, police officer and member of the Gangster Disciples was sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for racketeering conspiracy ...

President Trump on Wednesday commuted the sentence of notorious former Chicago street gang leader Larry Hoover, who was serving multiple life sentences in federal prison. Hoover, 74, the co-founder of ...

Lawyers representing Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover filed a motion Friday asking the judge overseeing Hoover’s request for release from a life sentence to recuse himself due to his “vaguely ...

Notorious Chicago gang kingpin Larry Hoover has had “virtually no contact with the outside world” for more than two decades, his lawyers have said. They say the co-founder of the Gangster Disciples ...

ATLANTA — The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office said it has worked hard to come down hard on gangs. But the murder of two men last year shows the work cannot stop now. At a pool party in the ...

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