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CHICAGO —  Cook County Jail inmate is charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill two children he's accused of molesting and their parents.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says 32-year-old Edward Floyd faces six counts of solicitation to commit murder.

LANCASTER, S.C. -- An S.C. jail inmate has been recaptured after a brief escape.

The Herald of Rock Hill reported that 18-year-old Raymond Lewis Bailey of Heath Springs escaped from Lancaster County sheriff's deputies late Tuesday morning.

Investigators and prison officials remained tight-lipped Sunday about a Friday altercation that killed an inmate at the Lincoln Correctional Center.

Jesse L. Perrigo, 39, who was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, died Saturday evening after being admitted to BryanLGH Medical Center West in critical condition.

Perrigo was convicted in Douglas County of fatally shooting a taxi driver during an attempted robbery in November 1991.