Last of 'Angola 3' could walk free from prison within days

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Albert Woodfox, the last of three high-profile Louisiana prisoners known as the "Angola Three," could walk free within days after a federal judge ordered state officials to release him immediately. U.S. District Judge James Brady, the judge overseeing the closely watched human rights case, said Monday that the 68-year-old former Black Panther Party prison leader should be granted immediate freedom and not be tried again in the death of a prison guard stabbed to death during prison upheavals in 1972. Brady, who presided over the case from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ordered Woodfox's unconditional release in a strongly worded ruling. "The only just remedy is an unconditional...