South African blade runner

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) —  wants to take his case to South Africa’s Constitutional Court, challenging an appeals court that convicted him of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the Olympian’s lawyer said Tuesday. Attorney Barry Roux also requested bail for the double-amputee runner in a court hearing in Pretoria, saying stricter conditions including electronic monitoring would […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic runner who shot his girlfriend to death on Valentine’s Day 2013, can leave prison and move to house arrest next week, South Africa’s Department of Corrections said Thursday. A parole board at the prison where Pistorius has served nearly a year of his five-year sentence for manslaughter […]