FORT SMITH, Ark. — The Vietnam War took place over 40 years ago. Today, one veteran is teaching everyone in attendance patience is a virtue. “You don’t think about medals,” Vietnam War veteran Harold ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — The FBI issued a nationwide alert Thursday for a convicted killer who remained at large for a second day after escaping from a Texas prison through a hole he widened around a ceiling ...

“We have confirmed his identity through fingerprints.”Harold Laird, 26, escaped early Wednesday through a hole he widened around a ceiling light fixture in his cell. He tried to fashion a dummy in his ...

A Harris County man who repaid the kindness of a Channelview tavern owner and his homeless mother with robbery and murder escaped this morning from a Beaumont maximum security prison. Authorities ...

Authorities in Mississippi on Friday nabbed escaped Texas inmate Harold Laird, a convicted Harris County capital murderer who crawled his way out of a prison near Beaumont and eluded capture for two ...

Harold J. Laird, 92, of Anderson, passed away June 1, 2013, at Miller’s Merry Manor in Chesterfield after an extended illness. He was born Jan. 18, 1921, the son of the late William and Stella ...

A convicted killer who escaped from a prison near Beaumont was captured while sleeping in a stolen pickup truck about 300 miles away in Hattiesburg, Miss., authorities said. Harold Laird, 26, escaped ...