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RICHMOND (AP) -- The man who killed Virginia's most notorious sex offender will serve 12? years in prison for the slaying. Dewey Keith "Frankie" Venable was sentenced last week for the Jan. 13, 2004, beating and strangulation of his cellmate, Richard Alvin Ausley, who was 64. Venable, 26, had been molested as a child and said he had warned a corrections officer not to put him in the same cell as Ausley at Sussex I State Prison, one of Virginia's most secure correctional facilities. Ausley gained notoriety in recent years as the offender who prompted a Virginia law that allows...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Former Arkansas congressman and U.S. Homeland Security undersecretary Asa Hutchinson has been named chairman of a private Washington law firm's homeland security practice but will be moving him family to Little Rock. Hutchinson told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he took the position at Venable LLP in Washington because the firm allowed him to make his primary residence in Little Rock and establish his own consulting firm, Hutchinson Security Strategies, in Arkansas. "Venable gave me an opportunity to head up their homeland security practice in a way that's consistent with me pursuing personal and...