Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, an ...

Hoover, 74, still faces the remainder of a 200-year sentence in Illinois for the 1973 murder of William "Pooky" Young.

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of a Chicago gang leader who was convicted for a 1973 murder. Here's what to ...

The timing of it, the nature of it and the gang activity of it makes it safe to say it was fairly coordinated. It was ...

Larry Hoover, 74, denounced his past and has been locked up for more than 50 years. But Trump is hardly the harbinger of ...

Founding the Gangster Disciples. The Gangster Disciples (GDs) were founded in the mid ‘60s by Hoover and David Barksdale— known as King David.

Some of the gangs South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley listed as tied to violence at the men’s prison in Sioux Falls ...

When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have marked the first time a form of clemency was granted on a current inmate of the ...

Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover's quest for freedom faces key test this week Hoover is asking to cut short his time in federal prison under the First Step Act.

Infamous Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover is set to appear in court for the first time in decades Thursday as his long-shot bid to win freedom comes to a head at Chicago's federal courthouse.

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 ...

Hoover helped form the violent Gangster Disciples street gang, and he ran it from state prison while serving time for murder. In 1998, a federal judge told Hoover he’d misused his ability to ...