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This combo made from photos provided by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department shows from left, Mark Leonard, 43, his wife, Shirley Leonard, 43, and his brother, Bob Leonard, 54, all of Indianapolis, who were arrested Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 and charged with murder, arson and other counts in a Nov. 10 gas explosion that killed two people. Authorities say the explosion in the Richmond hill subdivision in Indianapolis was deliberately set up so the three could collect a big insurance payout. (AP Photo/Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department)

Authorities: 3 set deadly Ind. blast for insurance

Rick Callahan · December 22, 2012 1:27 am

In this Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 photo, McKenna Pope,13, poses for The Associated Press in her home in Garfield, N.J. Hasbro has announced it has been developing an Easy-Bake Oven in the gender-neutral colors of black and silver. It made the announcement after meeting with Pope, whose online petition asking the company to make one attractive to all kids gathered tens of thousands of signatures. Hasbro says it knows both boys and girls have fun playing with the Easy-Bake. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Parents struggle to find gender-neutral toys

Michelle Smith · December 22, 2012 1:15 am

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2012 photo, Officer Rick Moore of the Oakland school district police patrols Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, Calif. The National Rifle Association on Friday, Dec. 21 2012 called for the placement of an armed police officer in every school, but parents and educators questioned how safe such a move would keep kids, whether it would be economically feasible and how it would alter student life. Their reactions ranged from supportive to disgusted. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Parents hesitant about NRA armed schools proposal

Christine Armario · December 22, 2012 1:05 am

This photo shows the Metropolitan Correctional Center Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago. Two convicted bank robbers used a knotted rope or bed sheets to escape from the federal prison window high above downtown Chicago early Tuesday, a week after one of them made a courtroom vow of retribution, to federal judge. The escape occurred sometime between 5 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. when the inmates were discovered missing, Chicago Police Sgt. Mark Lazarro said. Hours later, what appeared to be a rope, knotted at six-foot intervals, could be seen dangling into an alley from a window of the Metropolitan Correctional Center approximately 20 stories above the ground. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Lawyer: Man likely back in Chicago jail he escaped

DON BABWINMICHAEL TARM · December 21, 2012 11:58 pm

Texas cancer agency names new top executives

Washington Examiner · December 21, 2012 11:55 pm

US judge: Bring back federal assault weapons ban

Washington Examiner · December 21, 2012 11:39 pm

Philly teen sues school over Romney T-shirt flap

Washington Examiner · December 21, 2012 11:27 pm

Security increased at Los Alamos Nat’l Lab in NM

Washington Examiner · December 21, 2012 11:25 pm

Rain soaks parts of a memorial to the Newtown shooting victims in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn., Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. The shooter, Adam Lanza, walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself.Â (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

A week after school massacre, new details emerge

Katie Zezima · December 21, 2012 11:11 pm

American flight to Dallas lands after engine fails

Washington Examiner · December 21, 2012 11:08 pm

Few report sex assaults at military academies

Lolita Baldor · December 21, 2012 11:07 pm

This 2006 photo released by Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, R.I., shows Gloria, a gibbon, with her last-born female offspring, Mason, left. Gloria was euthanized Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, after suffering for months with a disease that had symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's. Gloria was born in 1983 at the Minnesota Zoo and has been at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence since 1989. (AP Photo/Roger Williams Park Zoo)

Gibbon from popular Rhode Island zoo exhibit dies

Washington Examiner · December 21, 2012 10:52 pm