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This undated artist rendering provided by the New York Public Library from dbox / Foster + Partners shows the entrance to a new lending library in a proposed $300 million renovation of its landmark Fifth Avenue building that will more than double its public space, the New York Public Library president said Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/New York Public Library from dbox / Foster + Partners)

New York Public Library unveils renovation plan

Verena Dobnik · December 20, 2012 4:36 am

A tractor-trailer still smolders hours after a chain-reaction crash on the Long Island Expressway on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 in Shirley, N.Y. At least one person was killed and 32 others were injured in the pileup, which involved about two dozen vehicles. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman)

Truck causes NY traffic pileup; 1 dead, 33 hurt

Frank Eltman · December 20, 2012 4:30 am

Miss USA, Olivia Culpo, left, is crowned Miss Universe during the Miss Universe competition, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Miss USA Olivia Culpo is crowned Miss Universe

HANNAH DREIERMICHELLE RINDELS · December 20, 2012 4:04 am

Officials: 31 suspended in Army day care scandal

Lolita Baldor · December 20, 2012 3:10 am

A child peers through firefighters standing as the procession heads to the cemetery outside the funeral for school shooting victim Daniel Gerard Barden at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Newtown, Conn., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. According to firefighters, Daniel wanted to be a firefighter when he grew up and they honored him at the service. Barden, 7, was killed when Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Funerals become a routine in shattered Newtown

David Klepper · December 20, 2012 3:02 am

This undated photo provided by the FBI shows , Kenneth Conley, left and Jose Banks two inmates who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. Chicago Police Sgt. Michael Lazarro says their disappearance was discovered at about 8:45 Tuesday morning. Lazarro says the pair used a rope or bed sheets to climb from the building. (AP Photo/FBI,HOPD)

FBI: Escaped inmates took cab near Chicago jail

DON BABWINMICHAEL TARM · December 20, 2012 2:58 am

Ex-nurse wants aiding-suicide conviction reversed

Amy Forliti · December 20, 2012 2:52 am

A mourner carries a program as she leaves the funeral service of Victoria Soto at Lordship Community Church, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Stratford, Conn. Soto was killed when Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

One by one, shattered Newtown buries its dead

David Klepper · December 20, 2012 2:13 am

Reported sex assaults spike at military academies

Lolita Baldor · December 20, 2012 2:12 am

Cleanup continues at La. explosive company

Washington Examiner · December 20, 2012 2:11 am

Funerals, visitations for Conn. shooting victims

The Associated Press · December 20, 2012 2:09 am

Tenn. judge acquits 3 of sex trafficking

Travis Loller · December 20, 2012 2:04 am