OJ Simpson has been granted parole after more than eight years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel heist.

LATEST: OJ Simpson will be released on parole in October after serving nine years behind bars for armed robbery.

Detectives have concluded a knife found at the former estate of OJ Simpson was not the weapon used to kill his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.

US detectives are investigating a knife purportedly found some time ago at the former home of OJ Simpson.

Police in Los Angeles are testing a knife that was reportedly recovered at a house once owned by OJ Simpson.

Lawyers for ex-American football star OJ Simpson have appealed to Nevada’s supreme court, seeking his release from prison and a new trial in his 2007 armed-robbery case.

OJ Simpson is due back in court for the first time since he was jailed for robbery, hoping to win an appeal against his conviction and sentence of up to 33 years.