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This undated image provided by the West Webster fire department shows firefighter Theodore Scardino. Scardino was wounded when William Spengler, 62, who served 17 years in prison for the 1980 hammer killing of his grandmother, armed himself with a revolver, a shotgun and a semiautomatic rifle before he set his house on fire to lure first responders into a death trap before dawn Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/West Webster Fire Department)

Autopsy: NY gunman shot self, not hit by police

George Walsh · December 27, 2012 9:51 pm

Mexico urges US court to block part of Arizona law

Jacques Billeaud · December 27, 2012 9:41 pm

2 men plead not guilty in Tamil Tiger case in NYC

Washington Examiner · December 27, 2012 9:12 pm

Vice President Joe Biden, right, re-enacts the swearing in of Sen. Brian Emanuel Schatz, D-Hawaii., left, as wife Linda Schatz, holds the bible and watches at center, during a ceremony in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie named Schatz, his lieutenant governor, to fill the Senate seat left vacant following the death of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii. Earlier, Biden officially administered the Senate oath to Schatz on the Senate floor. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden swears in Schatz as new senator for Hawaii

Charles Babington · December 27, 2012 9:05 pm

In this Nov. 21, 2012 photo provided by The Rapid City Police Department Officer Ron Terviel, left, and Officer Carmen Visian wait while paramedics check a hit-and-run suspect during a Tweetalong in Rapid City, S.D. On a virtual ridealongs on Twitter, or Tweetalongs, officers post regular updates to Twitter about what they are seeing as they perform their normal on-duty routine. The tweets, which also include photos and links to videos of the officers, can encompass an array of activities. (AP Photo/Rapid City Police, Tarah Heupel)

Police offer ‘virtual ridealongs’ via Twitter

Kristi Eaton · December 27, 2012 8:31 pm

Shuttered after Sandy, NYC hospital partly reopens

Eileen AJ Connelly · December 27, 2012 8:23 pm

In this December 19, 2012 photo "Chips" the bobcat is seen in an enclosure in Placerville, Calif. A Northern California animal rescue group is trying to help an orphaned bobcat kitten with a problem: She's too nice. The kitten was only a few weeks old when she was found in August by fire crews who battled a 75,000-acre fire in the Plumas National Forest. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Randall Benton) MAGS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT (KCRA3, KXTV10, KOVR13, KUVS19, KMAZ31, KTXL40); MANDATORY CREDIT

Volunteers toughen up bobcat kitten who’s too nice

Washington Examiner · December 27, 2012 8:11 pm

Biden swears in Schatz as Hawaii’s new senator

Associated Press · December 27, 2012 8:06 pm

FILE - In this July 19, 2011 file photo, United Arab Emirates Col. Arif Mohamed Saeed Mohamed Al-Ali enters Federal Court in Providence, R.I. Al-Ali was ordered Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, to pay $1.2 million to former domestic worker Elizabeth Ballesteros, who accused him of imprisoning her and forcing her to work long hours for little pay. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

UAE officer ordered to pay $1.2M to former worker

Michelle Smith · December 27, 2012 8:06 pm

In this Dec. 12, 2012 photo, Clemson University student Nathan Weaver holds a fake turtle he is using in his research to try and save the animals in Clemson, S.C. Weaver is placing the fake turtle in roads near campus and seeing how many drivers intentionally run over it. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

College student’s turtle project takes dark twist

Jeffrey Collins · December 27, 2012 8:04 pm

Motorists wait inside their cars to drop guns to waiting Los Angeles Police officials at the LA Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Los Angeles police are offering groceries for guns in a buyback program that was moved up in the wake of the Connecticut tragedy. Police officials will be accepting weapons Wednesday at the LA Memorial Sports Arena and the Van Nuys Masonic Temple. Weapons can be turned in with no questions asked. Handguns, rifles and shotguns can be exchanged for $100 Ralphs grocery store gift cards. An automatic weapons will earn a $200 card. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

LA gun buyback collects more than 2,000 weapons

Washington Examiner · December 27, 2012 7:13 pm

4 charged in synthetic drug overdoses in ND, Minn.

Dave Kolpack · December 27, 2012 6:59 pm