A federal judge has approved the unconditional release of John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Ronald Reagan and three others in a failed assassination attempt in 1981. According to NPR and ...

John Hinckley Jr. following his arraignment in 1981. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images) Almost no one had ever heard of John Hinckley Jr. before he tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan over a ...

Update: The plan is off for John Hinckley Jr. to return to the area on July 16, this time with a guitar rather than a gun, 41 years after he tried to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan in an ...

WASHINGTON -- Prosecutors and lawyers for the would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan are disagreeing over what conditions should be imposed if he's allowed to leave a mental hospital for good ...

WASHINGTON -- The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan has been released from a Washington mental hospital for good, more than 35 years after the shooting. A spokeswoman for the ...

The story of John Hinckley, whose obsession with a child star led to one of the most shocking crimes in U.S. history.