CHICAGO — Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, a letter arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker that purported to ...

Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, a letter arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker that purported to be Hoover ...

Notorious gang leader works behind bars Hoover was a founder of the Gangster Disciples more than 50 years ago, which remains one of Chicago’s most notorious street gangs.

Hoover, founder of the notorious Gangster Disciples, was imprisoned in connection with a murder in 1973, and he was convicted in 1998 of running a criminal enterprise from inside an Illinois prison.

Larry Hoover Sr., the 74-year-old co-founder of the Chicago street gang, the Gangster Disciples, has had his prison sentence commuted by Donald Trump.

Seventy authors signed an open letter calling on publishers to pledge they won't use artificial intelligence in book publishing.

Of those, the Bloods, Crips, Gangster Disciples and Vice Lords are among the top gangs represented in prison, according to a 2020 survey by the NGCRC.

On day three of Desmond Burks' preliminary hearing, more witnesses took the stand in the murder case of a well-known Detroit neurosurgeon.

Why has the president chosen to commute the sentence of a violent Chicago crime lord, particularly when he has consistently ...