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YAKIMA, Wash. - Two jail escapees were captured Saturday after an anonymous tip led police to the attic of a relative's home, but two others were still at large after nine inmates broke out of a maximum security area of the Yakima County Jail. The men broke through the ceiling of the four-story jail and used a rope made of bed sheets to climb down Friday evening, authorities said. Five were recaptured on the jail grounds, but four others got away. Saturday morning, officers got a tip that led them to a Yakima home where a sister of escapee Santos...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) -- Eight inmates escaped from a county jail Friday by breaking an upper floor window and climbing down a rope made of bed sheets, authorities said. Four were quickly recaptured before they could leave the jail grounds, said Will Paulakis, a Yakima County Corrections Department division chief. Authorities were searching for the other four, including a 20-year-old man scheduled to go on trial Dec. 5 on charges of second-degree murder, another charged with burglary, and two in custody on second-degree assault allegations. All were maximum security inmates, Paulakis said. Authorities were trying to determine how the eight...

PATNA, India, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Maoist rebels stormed a jail in eastern India, killing at least two people and freeing more than 300 prisoners, including many fellow guerrillas, police said on Monday. Police said the rebels entered Jehanabad town in impoverished and lawless Bihar state late on Sunday night in small groups, cut off power in areas around the jail and attacked the prison. They killed one jail guard and a member of a private landlord army. The rebels also abducted at least two dozen members of a private army of upper caste landlords who were jail...

KINGSTON — A prison guard calmly testified this morning how he fired 11 rounds from his revolver and his wounded partner's pistol during a brazen daylight escape by an inmate and his wife last month. Larry "Porky" Harris testified at a court hearing that he and correction officer Wayne "Cotton" Morgan were returning George Hyatte, 34, to a prison van after an appearance at the Roane County Courthouse. He said he didn't notice Jennifer Hyatte, 31, a former prison nurse and mother of three, come up to them in the parking lot until George Hyatte shouted, "Shoot him!" "As Cotton...

British forces have rescued two UK servicemen who were arrested by Iraqi police in the southern city of Basra. Official Iraqi sources say British tanks stormed the city's jail, but the Ministry of Defence says the men's release was negotiated. Basra governor Mohammed al-Waili said it was a "barbaric act of aggression". The arrests sparked clashes in which UK tanks came under attack. Two civilians were reportedly killed and three UK soldiers were injured. MoD officials insist they have been talking to the Iraqi authorities to secure the release of the men - who were reported to be working undercover....

BASRA, Iraq (AP) - British forces using tanks broke down the walls of the central jail in the southern city of Basra late Monday and freed two Britons, allegedly undercover commandos, who had been arrested on charges of shooting two Iraqi policemen. Witnesses said about 150 Iraqi prisoners also fled the jail. Violence flared earlier in the day as demonstrators hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at British tanks; at least four people were killed. The fighting erupted after British armor encircled the jail where the two Britons were being held. During the melee one soldier could be seen scrambling for...

In a major show of force, British soldiers used tanks to break down the walls of the central jail in this southern city late Monday and freed two Britons, allegedly undercover commandos, who had been arrested on charges of shooting two Iraqi policemen. About 150 Iraqi prisoners also fled as British commandos stormed inside and rescued their comrades, said Aquil Jabbar, an Iraqi television cameraman who lives across the street from the jail. Earlier Monday, demonstrators hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at British tanks, and at least four people were killed.

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BEATRICE — An ex-Marine from North Platte tackled and restrained a prisoner attempting to flee the Gage County courtroom Thursday morning. The prisoner, Thomas Harms, 25, of Beatrice, was in court for a bond hearing in a domestic abuse and strangulation case. He had been in jail awaiting formal charges. As the complaint was read, Harms was verbally uncooperative and answered questions using profanity. County Judge Steve Timm gave Harms a chance to apologize, then ordered him to spend an additional seven days in jail for contempt. When Sheriff Jerry DeWitt and another officer tried to place him in handcuffs,...

Four "dangerous enemy combatants" have escaped from the main US base in Afghanistan, the US military has said.

FOUR prisoners described as dangerous enemy combatants escaped from the main American military base in Afghanistan yesterday, the latest embarrassment for commanders there who were already struggling with their worst military losses in four years.A huge manhunt, using helicopters and American ground forces, was under way after the four men were discovered missing from the heavily fortified prison at the Bagram air base, north of Kabul. American military officials would not comment on the identities of the men but an Afghan official said that they were all from Arab countries and suspected al-Qaeda members. Kabir Ahmed, the district chief of...

Uzbek riots work of militants - Russian diplomatic sources MOSCOW. May 14 (Interfax) - Friday's bloody riots in Uzbekistan were the work of well-armed militants from abroad, senior sources in the Russian Foreign Ministry said, Russian security sources have confirmed this. These diplomatic and military sources told Interfax that a large number of militants secretly gathered in the past few days at the juncture of the borders of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The militants included radical Islamists and Taliban members who had come secretly from Afghanistan, the sources said. The militants, who were well armed, formed units that moved into...

Dozens Reported Killed in Uzbekistan By BAGILA BUKHARBAYEVA, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 33 minutes ago ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan - Soldiers opened fire on thousands of protesters in eastern Uzbekistan on Friday after demonstrators stormed a jail to free 23 men accused of Islamic extremism. At least 50 people may have been killed in clashes with police and security forces, a protest leader said. ADVERTISEMENT Protesters fell to the ground as the troops surrounded the crowd of some 4,000 and started shooting outside the city's administration building, which had been seized by the demonstrators. An Associated Press reporter saw 10 people...

Seven prisoners, including a number convicted of murder, have escaped from a Pakistani jail by using their turbans for ropes. The prisoners broke through a toilet window in the jail in Machh, 50km (31 miles) south of the capital of Balochistan province, Quetta. They then scaled the high-security jail's perimeter wall with the turbans. Most of the convicts were serving terms of more than 20 years. A hunt is under way in nearby villages. Overcrowded Machh is Balochistan's leading jail and houses many criminals facing the death penalty. Abdur Razzaq Shah, the prison's deputy superintendent, told the Associated Press the...

Bloody end to Manila jail break Many Abu Sayyaf members are held at Camp Bagong Diwa Philippine police have killed at least 20 prisoners in an operation to end an uprising by Muslim militants at a maximum security prison near Manila.Two leaders of the Abu Sayyaf Islamic group were among those who died when police stormed the Camp Bagong Diwa jail on Tuesday, officials said. Lengthy bursts of gunfire were heard as police took control of the building. The disturbance started on Monday, when militants snatched weapons from guards and opened fire in an attempted escape. Three guards and...

MANILA, Philippines Mar 14, 2005 — Muslim-extremist inmates accused of committing some of the Philippines' worst terrorist attacks agreed to surrender Monday after a botched jailbreak left five people dead, including three guards, but the deal broke down when the inmates demanded food, authorities said. Early Tuesday, authorities threatened to storm the prison unless the inmates quickly surrender. "We have directed the ground commander to make the announcement that we are giving them 15 minutes to surrender their firearms or we will take the option of arresting the perpetrators of the crime," Interior Secretary Angelo Reyes told reporters. Crack troops,...

MANILA, Philippines — Police surrounded the facility at Manila's Camp Bagong Diwa, where authorities have detained 129 suspected members of the Al Qaeda-linked (search) Abu Sayyaf group, including several leaders.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - More than 200 prisoners escaped from a jail in Indonesia's restive Aceh province Sunday after a tsunami knocked down the prison walls, a police official said. Ali Taruna Jaya, police chief in the town of Pidie, said a few of the 204 inmates who fled from the coastal jail had given themselves up. "The prisoners escaped from the jail. It appears some did it for their own safety after the tsunami crashed into the jail," Jaya told Metro TV. He said he had had no reports on any deaths in Pidie after the tsunami, triggered by a...

KABUL (Reuters) - Five Afghan prison guards and police and two prisoners have been killed in a jail break attempt by al Qaeda inmates and a shoot-out was going on with another two, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said. Several police and prisoners were wounded in the ensuing siege of two prisoners holed up in a workshop inside the sprawling Soviet-era Pul-i-Charki prison compound on the southeast outskirts of Kabul... The prisoners killed by guards were Pakistani and Iraqi al Qaeda members who had been arrested in Kabul by Afghan security forces...

10 USS Cole suspects escape Yemeni jail SANAA: Ten Yemenis suspected of involvement in the deadly October 2000 attack on the USS Cole escaped from a jail Friday in the southern port of Aden, local authorities said. The men broke out of a window around 5:00 am (0200 GMT) and the jailers realized about an hour later that they were gone, said the officials, who requested anonymity. Among those who escaped was Jamal Badawi, one of the principal suspects held over the attack, which killed 17 US sailors and was claimed by Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda terrorist network. Local officials...