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

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

Twenty-four inmates at the South Dakota State Penitentiary are facing assault and riot charges following a May 27 fight.The ...

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

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 ...

Hoover and David Barksdale created the Gangster Disciples in the late 1960s, ruling as “King Larry” and “King David” until Barksdale was killed in 1974.

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.

A federal jury in Georgia last week found three members of the Gangster Disciples guilty of carrying out a string of murders that started in retaliation to the slaying of a fellow gang member ...

CHICAGO — Lawyers representing Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover filed a motion Friday asking the judge overseeing Hoover’s request for release from a life sentence to recuse himself ...

CHICAGO — Infamous Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover’s first court appearance in decades may have been via video link from a prison more than a thousand miles from Chicago, but ...

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 ...