Larry Dean Hoover was born to Delbert and Elnor (Lutz) Hoover on Jan. 28, 1947, in Norfolk. He was the ninth of 10 children. He passed unexpectedly on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, at his home in Arizona ...

Larry Hoover, 78, formerly of Norfolk and Omaha, died unexpectedly Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, at his home in Arizona. Services will be held at a later date. The Daily News publishes death notices and ...

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Five months after President Donald Trump commuted his federal life sentence, Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover has made his pitch for clemency on a state murder case to the Illinois Prisoner ...

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Lawyers for Hoover, 74, say his health is deteriorating. Lawyers for Larry Hoover, founder of the Gangster Disciples, are asking Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to grant him state clemency following Donald ...

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CHICAGO (AP) — One of Chicago’s most infamous gang leaders asked Gov. JB Pritzker for clemency Wednesday after winning a pardon from President Donald Trump earlier this spring, arguing that he had ...

The Gangster Disciples founder speaks publicly for the first time in 25 years. For 23 hours a day, Larry Hoover, the founder of notorious street gang Gangster Disciples, had been sitting in a ...

For 23 hours a day, Larry Hoover, the founder of notorious street gang Gangster Disciples, had been sitting in a 7-by-12-foot concrete cell at the ADX Florence federal supermax facility in Colorado, ...

Larry Hoover, in prison since 1973, faces the parole board with his wife, Winndye Jenkins, at the Dixon Correctional Center on on Feb. 7, 1995, in Dixon, Illinois. John Dziekan/Chicago Tribune/Tribune ...

Larry Hoover, in prison since 1973, faces the parole board with his wife, Winndye Jenkins, at the Dixon Correctional Center on on Feb. 7, 1995, in Dixon, Illinois. John Dziekan/Chicago Tribune/Tribune ...