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It was not the first death reported at USP Hazelton. According to the Associated Press, an inmate at the prison was killed in a fight in September, and another inmate was killed in a fight there in April.

For a political party accusing the president of the United States of treason, the Democrats are being very reluctant to have authorities prove it. The email server that the Democratic National Committee say was hacked by the Russians is so far being kept out of reach of federal investigators looking into the issue. The only people who have examined the server are employees of the private cyber-security company the DNC hired to find out who hacked them.

(CNN)Dean Jones, the go-to Disney actor whose films included "The Love Bug," "The Million Dollar Duck," "That Darn Cat!" and "The Shaggy D.A.," died Tuesday, according to his publicist. Jones was 84. The cause of death was Parkinson's disease, according to publicist Richard Hoffman. Jones made his film debut in 1956's "Somebody Up There Likes Me," which starred Paul Newman as boxer Rocky Graziano. The next year he appeared in the Elvis Presley movie "Jailhouse Rock." He also starred on Broadway in such works as "There Was a Little Girl," with Jane Fonda, and the hit "Under the Yum-Yum Tree,"...

Rod Blagojevich's sentencing hearing has ended for the day, with the defense emphasizing the damage a long prison sentence would have on Blagojevich’s family. Lawyer Aaron Goldstein also read a letter read to the court from Blagojevich’s wife, Patti. “Your honor, I ask you humbly with the life of my husband and the childhood of my daughters in your hands, be merciful,” she wrote to U.S. District Judge James Zagel. Her husband’s worst fear was that he would not be able to see his daughters grow up, Goldstein said, prompting both Rod and Patti Blagojevich to tear up as they...

If you’re depressed, dance your way out of the dumps. That’s what is working in a Philippine prison. Byron Garcia, Security Consultant for the Cebu provincial government, tapped into a unique anger-management strategy and he’s dealing with some severely bummed out, violent thugs. He has almost all 1600 inmates at the Cebu provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center dancing to old hits like “YMCA” and “In the Navy” by the Village People. Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” also blasts from prison yard speakers while detainees hoof it in unison. “Inmates say to me, ‘You have put my mind off revenge, foolishness, or thinking...

A judge said Monday, he will allow four of 10 incidents of evidence in Spector's murder trial that prosecutors say illustrate the music producer's history of pulling guns on women. Spector is on trial for the Feb. 23, 2003, fatal shooting of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson.

SEATTLE (AP) -- The state Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two-year suspension for a lawyer caught having jailhouse sex with a triple-murder defendant she was representing. Theresa Olson's suspension begins Friday; she must undergo a psychological evaluation before she can be reinstated. Earlier, Olson and the state Bar Association had agreed to a one-year suspension, but the high court rejected the bar's recommendation. In 2002, guards outside a King County Jail conference room saw Olson with her dress pulled up and her client, Sebastian Burns, standing behind her with his pants down. At the time of the encounter, Olson...

Wed Jan 22, 7:38 AM ET French police on January 22, 2003 recaptured an American male nurse who escaped from a Monaco prison where he was serving a 10-year sentence for starting the fire that killed billionaire banker Edmond Safra. Ted Maher, shown in this November 28 2002 file photo, escaped overnight from the Monaco jail with another prisoner by sawing through the bars of their cell. Police sources said Maher had holed himself up in a hotel in Nice but was traced after making a string of telephone calls to people to explain himself concerning the death of...