The man who shot President Ronald Reagan left a Washington mental hospital for good on Saturday, more than 35 years after the shooting. A federal judge ruled in late July that the 61-year-old John ...

The man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan will be allowed to leave a Washington mental hospital and live full-time in Virginia, a judge has ruled. John Hinckley Jr. is ready to live ...

WASHINGTON – John W. Hinckley Jr., who was committed to a mental hospital after trying to assassinate President Reagan in 1981, is asking a federal judge to let him spend more time with his family.

From recent mental-health evaluations of John Hinckley Jr., included in court documents submitted in April in support of a request by his attorneys to increase the amount of time Hinckley… ...

After almost three decades in a mental hospital, the man who came within inches of killing President Ronald Reagan is moving closer to being released, CNN reported. A forensic psychologist in ...

WASHINGTON -- Presidential assailant John W. Hinckley Jr. has asked a federal judge for permission to leave St. Elizabeths Hospital for unsupervised visits with his parents, including a series of ...

WASHINGTON — John W. Hinckley Jr., who shot President Reagan nearly a quarter-century ago, may soon get what he has long sought: a long home visit with his parents.

One of Ronald Reagan's many acts of magnanimity that has not been mentioned this week was his wish to pardon John W. Hinckley Jr. In early 1983 Mr. Reagan called me to say he was thinking of pardoning ...