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.

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. – Authorities in California say six inmates, including a man charged with murder, used a “homemade rope” to escape a jail over the weekend. The Merced County Sheriff’s Office ...

MERCED, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in central California were searching Sunday for six inmates who used a “homemade rope” to escape from a county jail, sheriff's officials said. All six escapees should ...

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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 ...