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BRANDON, Miss. (AP) - Authorities say a guard was killed and, at one point, hostages were taken during a riot at a Mississippi prison that holds illegal immigrants.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Jurors in the John Edwards' campaign corruption trial are taking a break for the weekend before taking up the case again on Monday.

CLEVELAND (AP) - Police say an Ohio woman has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of her friend, who tried to drive away afterward and fatally struck the accused woman's 2-year-old daughter.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an Alabama county's challenge to the landmark civil rights law.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Jurors deliberating in the John Edwards campaign corruption trial are asking to see several exhibits and they say they need office supplies to help with their discussions.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - When George Zimmerman tries to convince a judge or a jury that he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense, the evidence in the case appears to be a mixed bag.

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Jurors are set to begin deliberating the fate of John Edwards on Friday, weighing nearly four weeks of testimony and evidence from the former presidential candidate's corruption trial.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal appeals panel will hear the case of an ex-CIA officer charged with leaking classified information about Iran's nuclear program to a New York Times reporter.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Authorities in Mississippi say they've arrested a suspect in two fatal highway shootings that happened late at night along desolate stretches.

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - The mother of a 14-year-old Ohio girl who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds when she died last year has been sentenced to nine years in prison.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Prosecutors are saying in closing arguments in the John Edwards campaign corruption trial that he was part of a politically ambitious scheme to take money from wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress.

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) - A newlywed accused of stabbing his pregnant wife has pleaded not guilty to two counts of capital murder after the woman and baby died in western Arkansas.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Almost 1 in every 10 former state or local prisoners reported being sexually victimized at least once by an inmate or facility staff member in prison, according to a study released Thursday by the Justice Department.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Prosecutors and defense lawyers at the John Edwards trial are set to make closing arguments as the corruption case against the former presidential candidate heads to the jury.