The American journalist Hunter Stockton Thompson (born 1937) was known as one of the best examples of "Gonzo" journalism. His political and cultural criticism of the United States in the 1970s was largely a series of tales flowing from his eccentric pers...

Hunter S. Thompson created an explosive, first-person, gonzo style of reportage that brashly pushed the language and limits of American literary journalism into boldly original new directions. With weird humor and strident apocalyptic invective, his frac...

Hunter S. Thompson ranks among the first and foremost practitioners of New Journalism, a genre that evolved in the 1960s to reflect the particular mood of those times. Thompson, who has called his brand of reporting "Gonzo Journalism," was perhaps the mo...

Hundreds of hours of secret recordings in which Outlaws motorcycle gang leaders allegedly talk about killings and other crimes in a gang war with the rival Hell's Angels will be allowed as evidence in their trial later this year. U.S. Magistrate Judge William...

A federal jury convicted eight members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club of racketeering conspiracy Thursday in a case that involved slayings, firebombing and drug offenses in five states, many related to gang turf wars. Prosecutors said some of the crimes were committed as...