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"Manson apparently refused to go back to his cell and assumed a fighting stance with a correctional officer, said Todd Slosek, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections. Slosek didn't have exact details on when the incident occurred, other than to say it happened sometime this week. He said he didn't believe either Manson or the officer was injured in the confrontation. "

CHICAGO -- Supporters of two Chicago activists sentenced to prison for disobeying a judge's order while protesting at a Georgia Army base came out to give the pair a send-off. Supporters gathered at Montrose Beach on Tuesday as two activists, Ron Durham and Liz Deligio, prepared to go to prison to serve three-month jail terms, NBC5's Mary Ann Ahern reported. Durham and Deligio were sentenced for their part in protesting at the School for the Americas in Fort Benning, Ga. A judge's order had prohibited protestors from walking on to the Army base. Activists Receive Send-Off "They want to intimidate...

WASHINGTON -- Asked to resign by the chairman of the board of trustees, the director of Washington's oldest art museum said Monday he would remain for the next few days. David C. Levy, 67, president and director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art since 1991, submitted his resignation at a board meeting, The Washington Post reported in Tuesday editions. • Board chairman John T. Hazel, who sought the resignation, had clashed with Levy over plans to build a new wing for the museum. The board suspended the project at its meeting Monday, the Post said. Levy emerged from the board...

FRESNO — All through the night, the howls kept coming from the cell of inmate Ronald Herrera. More than one guard at Corcoran State Prison thought something was terribly amiss. Herrera wouldn't stop screaming late Sunday, and he had covered his cell window in a curtain of toilet paper soaked in blood. One guard had seen Herrera, a dialysis patient suffering from hepatitis, pull out the medical shunt from his arm, corrections officials said. But when the guard later tried to check on the inmate, his sergeant told him not to bother, they said. "He's not dead," the sergeant was...

<p>Karla W. Corcoran, the U.S. Postal Service inspector general, retired yesterday after a federal investigation found that she abused her authority, wasted public money and promoted questionable personnel practices.</p> <p>The Postal Service's Board of Governors announced that David C. Williams, a former IG at four different agencies, would immediately take over as only the second inspector general in the history of the agency.</p>