In her telling, and in the minds of her supporters, she was pursued for crimes she didn't commit or that were justified. The ...

New Jersey State Police Trooper Werner Foerster is honored in a memorial near the scene of his fatal shooting on Route 18 ...

Joanne Debora Byron, a member of the Black Liberation Army, was convicted in the killing of New Jersey State Police Trooper ...

The news was originally shared on Facebook by Assata's daughter before being confirmed by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign ...

Assata Shakur, a political activist known as Joanne Chesimard, convicted of killing a NJ state trooper in 1977, died in Cuba ...

Assata Shakur, who made national headlines in the 1970s when she was convicted of killing a state trooper on the New Jersey Turnpike, died in Cuba.

Cuban officials said Joanne Chesimard, who escaped prison in 1979 after being convicted of murdering New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, has died.

Steven Smink, 62, of Philadelphia, has been sentenced to 95 years in New Jersey state prison for plotting to murder several ...

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for ...