LOS ANGELES (AP) – It was a daring and elaborate escape: cutting through metal, crawling through plumbing tunnels, climbing a roof, rappelling four stories to freedom using ropes made from bedsheets.

An Italian mob boss has escaped from his maximum-security cell by scrambling down a makeshift bedsheet rope — and remains on the run as officials investigate the security lapse that allowed the don to ...

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Scott Jagow: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is touring the country this week. He’s telling people about the White House plan to help homeowners facing foreclosure. Rates on certain loans would be ...

It was a daring and elaborate escape: cutting through metal, crawling through plumbing tunnels, climbing a roof, rappelling four stories to freedom using ropes made from bedsheets. But this wasn’t a ...