Disgraced American football legend O.J. Simpson, whose 1995 acquittal for double murder polarized the nation, was granted his release from prison Thursday after serving nearly nine years behind bars ...

Former NFL football star O.J. Simpson appears with his attorney, Malcolm LaVergne, via video for his parole hearing at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nev., on Thursday, July 20, 2017.

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O.J. Simpson will be paroled after serving nearly nine years in prison for a botched bid to retrieve sports memorabilia in Las Vegas. A Nevada parole board decided Thursday that the 70-year-old former ...

O.J. Simpson is up for parole on Thursday, a hearing that most experts — and Las Vegas bookies — agree will go exactly as Prisoner 1027820 would like it to. After all, Simpson has already been paroled ...

A Nevada parole board voted unanimously Thursday to grant O.J. Simpson’s request for an early release from prison, but this doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a free man. "Parole is but one step out of the ...

Officials from the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners headquarters in Carson City, Nev., participate in O.J. Simpson's parole hearing via video on July 20, 2017. At the start of O.J. Simpson's ...

(AP) OJ Simpson says he regrets the night he robbed two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room but adds he’s been a model inmate while serving his time at a northern Nevada prison.

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O.J. Simpson, the former football star, TV pitchman and now Nevada prison inmate No. 1027820, will have a lot going for him when he asks state parole board members this week to release him after ...

CARSON CITY, Nevada — From the "Trial of the Century," to the acquittal on murder charges to an incident in a Las Vegas hotel room, people across America and around the world have never seemed to lose ...