Parole hearing goes poorly for Puerto Rican nationalist

Jan. 5, 2011
A parole hearing did not go well for a Chicagoan that Puerto Rican nationalists call a patriot. The prisoner, Oscar López Rivera, has served more than 29 years on a conviction of seditious conspiracy.

Puerto Rican nationalist to argue for parole

Jan. 5, 2011
A former Chicagoan that some Puerto Ricans call a political prisoner will make his case to walk free. A U.S.

Puerto Ricans to welcome freed ‘patriot’

Jul. 26, 2010
A federal prison in downstate Illinois is scheduled to release an Oak Park and River Forest High School alumnus today. Carlos Alberto Torres once topped the FBI's Most Wanted list. After his 1980 arrest in Evanston, prosecutors called Torres a terrorist.