Newly freed Amanda Knox will arrive home in Seattle aboard a British Airways jumbo jet on Tuesday evening to a greeting from family, friends - and a contingent of national and local media.

Despite her four-year ordeal in Perugia, Amanda Knox plans to return to Italy someday, says an official who spoke with her just before she flew out of Rome on her way back to the United States.

Amanda Knox headed home to the United States a free woman Tuesday, after an Italian appeals court dramatically overturned the American student's conviction of sexually assaulting and brutally slaying her British roommate.

Amanda Knox headed home to the United States a free woman Tuesday, the morning after an Italian appeals court dramatically overturned the American student's conviction of sexually assaulting and brutally slaying her British roommate.The Italy-US Foundation, which has championed Knox's cause

A group of Amanda Knox supporters burst into applause and cheers Monday when they learned an Italian appeals court had thrown out the Seattle native's murder conviction in the death of her British roommate.

An Italian appeals court has thrown out Amanda Knox's murder conviction and ordered the young American free after nearly four years in prison for the death of her British roommate.

Amanda Knox tearfully told an Italian appeals court Monday she did not kill her British roommate, pleading for the court to free her so she can return to the United States after four years behind bars.

With some unable to hold their tears, supporters of Amanda Knox watched intently as the Seattle resident pleaded her innocence in Italian court Monday for a 2007 murder conviction.

Prosecutors have portrayed Raffele Sollecito as a "dog on a leash," helplessly under the sway of Amanda Knox, his girlfriend of only six days when they became the main suspects in the 2007 murder of her British roommate.

A defense lawyer argued Thursday that Amanda Knox is an innocent girl "crucified" in the media and wrongly convicted of killing her roommate, urging an appeals court not to be afraid to correct a mistake.

Two years ago, as she waited to know whether she'd be found guilty of murdering her British roommate, Amanda Knox was so confident she thought she'd be flying home to Seattle within hours.

A defense lawyer told an Italian court Tuesday that Amanda Knox isn't a manipulating, sex-obsessed "femme fatale" as her accusers charge, but is rather like Jessica Rabbit - just drawn that way.

Amanda Knox, the UW student convicted of killing her British roommate, is a "she-devil" who deliberately accused an innocent man to cover her own crime, a lawyer for the man unjustly implicated in the case said Monday.

A friend of Amanda Knox's says the jailed Seattle student can't sleep or eat properly as she awaits to know if an appeals court will uphold or overturn her murder conviction.

Italian prosecutors asked an appeals court on Saturday to uphold the conviction of Amanda Knox for the murder of her British roommate and to sentence her to life in prison.

Italian prosecutors sought to persuade an appeals court to uphold the murder conviction of Amanda Knox, saying during Friday that "all clues converge toward the only possible result" of finding her guilty.

The appeals trial of Seattle student Amanda Knox will enter its closing stretch on Friday when lawyers begin closing arguments in the murder case that has transfixed two continents for years.

An Italian news agency says a rock group has performed at the prison where Seattle student Amanda Knox is serving a sentence for the murder of her roommate.

Seattle student Amanda Knox says she feels people finally are starting to believe she was wrongly convicted for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher and that she hopes to be home in time for the Thanksgiving holiday.

The prosecutor in Seattle student Amanda Knox's appeals trial conceded Wednesday that Knox and her ex-boyfriend could be freed now that DNA evidence used in their murder convictions has been called into serious question.

An Italian court rejected a prosecutor's request Wednesday for new testing of crucial DNA evidence in the appeals trial of Amanda Knox - a positive development for the American student who is seeking to overturn her murder conviction.

The appeals case of Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of killing her British roommate, resumed Monday with lawyers questioning independent experts who cast doubt on the evidence used in the first trial.

Seattle student Amanda Knox's appeal of her conviction for her roommate's 2007 murder is set to resume Monday, as the roommate's family revealed they are "troubled" over revelations about faulty DNA evidence in the trial.

The investigators who collected the genetic evidence used to convict American student Amanda Knox of murder in Italy made a series of glaring errors, including using a dirty glove and not wearing caps, two independent forensic experts said Monday.

Experts raise doubts about DNA evidence that helped convict US student Amanda Knox of the murder of Meredith Kercher, a leaked report says.

The first man convicted in the murder of Amanda Knox's roommate testifed Monday that he believes she and her ex-boyfriend are guilty, an accusation that prompted the American student to say she was "shocked and anguished."

The appeal hearing of Seattle student Amanda Knox against her murder conviction in Italy resumes Monday with all eyes on an Ivory Coast man also convicted in the slaying, who will testify as a witness for the prosecution.

A convicted child murderer testified Saturday at the appeals trial for Amanda Knox, saying that a fellow inmate had told him the American student had nothing to do with her British roommate's slaying.

A local judge has sent a letter to President Obama, accusing the U.S. State Department of failure to protect the rights of Seattle student Amanda Knox since her 2007 arrest in Italy after her roommate's killing.

Some Italian lawmakers claim Amanda Knox was treated unfairly and are seeking a probe of the prosecutors' office in Perugia, the city where the American student was convicted of murdering her British roommate.