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JACKSON, Miss. -- Officials say a prison for illegal immigrants in Mississippi was on lockdown after a riot that began on Sunday left one guard dead and at least 19 people injured. All inmates were secured in their housing units by 2:45 a.m. Monday, nearly 12 hours after the disturbance began at the Adams County Correctional Center in southwest Mississippi, Mike Machak, a prison spokesman, said in a statement, according to WDSU-TV, an NBC News affiliate in New Orleans. Officials haven't released the identity of the slain guard. Machak said 16 other employees were treated and released from a hospital...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- A Lower Valley man was smacked Friday with 83 years in prison for a drive-by shooting that injured a rival gang member in Sunnyside.It was the longest sentence handed down in Yakima County under a 2008 state law that allows extra time behind bars for crimes found to have been committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang.For 30-year-old Anthony Deleon, the 1,002-month sentence means he will likely die in custody.His sentence was about 30 years higher than those imposed against his two co-defendants because he had more criminal history, including a 1997 manslaughter conviction from...

The campaign puts out a statement from former Fannie Mae chief Franklin Raines, disowning ties to Obama, after a McCain ad attacked him for the ties. The Washington Post reported -- with the kind of blind sourcing that suggests the source was Raines -- that Raines had "taken calls from Barack Obama's presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters." Raines said in the statement through the campaign, "I am not an advisor to Barack Obama, nor have I provided his campaign with advice on housing or economic matters." Obama spokesman Bill Burton added an attack: This...