1. (Law) a place for the confinement of persons convicted and sentenced to imprisonment or of persons awaiting trial to whom bail is not granted. 2. get out of jail get out of jail free to get out of a difficult situation.
A second video, filmed by the owner of the store Alton Sterling was selling CDs in front of, shows a clearer view of the altercation in which Sterling was shot and killed on July 5. It also seems to show officers removing something from Sterling's pocket after he was shot. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)
By NEIL STRAUSS. A keyboard player touring with the Smashing Pumpkins, one of alternative rock's most popular bands, was found dead of an apparent heroin overdose in his room at the Regency Hotel in Manhattan yesterday, and the band's drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, was arrested on drug possession charges, the police said.