ATLANTA — Richard Jewell, the former security guard who was wrongly linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing and then waged a decade-long battle with news organizations to defend his reputation, died ...

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In one case, the authorities charged an innocent man with capital murder. Other, smaller errors are common after mass shootings. By Mitch Smith He was a suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, ...

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CHICAGO (WGN RADIO) — On this week’s episode of Quest for Gold, we go in depth to talk about Richard Jewell, the man once dubbed a hero, before being accused of setting off a bomb during the 1996 ...

Richard Jewell, the security guard who discovered the deadly bomb under a park bench during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, died Wednesday at 44. His death -- reportedly from kidney problems -- leaves ...

R. Robin [email protected] a victory for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a Fulton County judge has determined that all but one of the statements relying on confidential sources that the newspaper ...

Two people died and more than 100 others were injured as a result of a bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. Alice Hawthorne, 44, of Albany, Georgia, was killed by the explosion.

ATLANTA -- After a bomb exploded in a downtown Atlanta park midway through the 1996 Olympics, a security guard initially cast as a hero was recast as a villain virtually overnight. More than 20 years ...