Police get 1,200 tips as manhunt for New York inmates enters 12th day

After more than 1,200 tips from the public, authorities on Wednesday expanded a manhunt for two killers whose brazen escape from an upstate New York prison was discovered 12 days ago. State police reopened Route 374, a main road from the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, to Plattsburgh, which had been closed since police sniffer dogs picked up the scent of Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 35, last week. "The search for escaped inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat is expanding and shifting to other areas surrounding Dannemora," police said in a statement.

Continue reading...