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WASHINGTON (AP) — Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida. Two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press the attack happened Sunday at United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida. The people said he was in stable condition Monday. One of the people said he had been stabbed in the back and in the chest.

<p>COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. — Bill Cosby has been moved to a general population unit as he serves three to 10 years in prison for sexual assault in Pennsylvania.</p> <p>The move last week comes after the 81-year-old actor spent about four months in special housing as he acclimated to the SCI-Phoenix in suburban Philadelphia.</p>

SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON -- A man newly arrived at San Quentin State Prison after being convicted of murder and drunken driving in the death of a 9-year-old Novato girl was fatally stabbed by another inmate, authorities said Tuesday. Edward John Schaefer, 44, of Novato was stabbed in the chest and neck at about 10:35 a.m. Monday in the prison's reception center yard and died that night, said Lt. Sam Robinson, prison spokesman. The suspect is Frank Anthony Souza, 31, a convicted murderer from San Jose, Robinson said. Souza had fashioned a homemade weapon, authorities said. Schaefer was killed just...

Authorities say an Allen woman accused of killing her husband was determined to finish the job but made no attempt to flee the bloody scene. His wife, 51-year-old Kimberly Shanks, was being held Tuesday in the Collin County Jail, charged with murder. Unlike most people in her situation, she smiled for her mug shot. The Shankses had lived at their home in the 1400 block of Lone Star Court in Allen for 14 years, a neighbor said. Police had visited their home before, but none of those calls involved violence or abuse, Allen police spokesman Jon Felty said.The couple's neighbors,...

<p>May 4, 2004 -- OFFICER Louis Pepe is, in many ways, as close to being dead as you can be without lying in a casket. His father, Franklin Pepe, puts it more succinctly: "What they did to him is worse than death."</p>