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In this Nov. 21, 2012, photo, Melanie Norwood, left, sits next to her attorney, Mark Chalos, as she talks about her mother, Marjorie Norwood in Nashville, Tenn. Marjorie Norwood, 59, became sick with fungal meningitis after getting steroid shots produced by the New England Compounding Center. Federal lawsuits in five states have been filed against the New England Compounding Center by patients who received shots of steroid medication produced by the pharmacy and more are being filed in state courts every day. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

Dozens sue pharmacy, but compensation uncertain

Kristin Hall · December 13, 2012 11:03 pm

State by state: Implementation of health law

The Associated Press · December 13, 2012 10:46 pm

Kerry calls Rice ‘dedicated public servant’

Washington Examiner · December 13, 2012 10:38 pm

CORRECTS NUMBER OF STATES TURNED DOWN TO 19 - FILE - This Jan. 9, 2012 file photo shows Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter delivering his State of the State address inside the House chambers at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise, Idaho. At least 19 states have turned down the Obama administrationâs invitation to run new health insurance markets that will be serving millions of uninsured Americans in less than a year. That means the Feds will step in and operate the programs, a defining challenge for President Barack Obamaâs second term. Otter supports a state run health exchange. (AP/Photo Matt Cilley, File)

Heavy lift for feds bringing health care to states

Ricardo AlonsoZaldivar · December 13, 2012 10:37 pm

FILE - In this March 7, 2012 file photo, gun owners and supporters participate in an Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day rally at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. In a big victory for gun rights advocates, a federal appeals court on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois _ the only remaining state where carrying concealed weapons is entirely illegal. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Chicago poised to fight over handguns _ again

Don Babwin · December 13, 2012 10:27 pm

Sheriff's deputies escort Al Lowry, the brother of murdered Highway Patrol Trooper, Ed Lowry after he yelled an expletive at Cumberland County Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Weeks, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 in Fayetteville, N.C. Judge Weeks declared the death sentences commuted to life without parole under the Racial Justice Act for Lowry's brother's killer, Tilmon Golphin. Defendants Christina S. "Queen" Walters, and Quintel M. Augustine sentences were also commuted to life without parole. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Raul R. Rubiera) MANDATORY CREDIT

NC judge commutes 3 deaths sentences; cites bias

Michael Biesecker · December 13, 2012 10:25 pm

Officers block the entrance to the Hugo L. Black U.S. Courthouse in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Police say an employee is dead after shooting himself inside the federal courthouse. Birmingham Police Sgt. Johnny Williams says an unidentified worker pulled out a weapon and shot himself once in the head early Thursday. No one else was harmed and Williams says there wasn't a threat to anyone else in the building. Williams says the shooting happened in a first-floor clerk's office. He says the man apparently was able to get the weapon inside because he worked in the building. Visitors are normally required to go through metal detectors. (AP Photo/AL.com, Joe Songer)

Man shoots himself inside Ala. federal courthouse

Washington Examiner · December 13, 2012 9:54 pm

Milwaukee woman convicted of killing pregnant woman to steal fetus gets life without parole

Washington Examiner · December 13, 2012 9:43 pm

Boston ex-mobster Bulger seeks judge’s dismissal

Washington Examiner · December 13, 2012 9:36 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2012, file photo, Annette Morales-Rodriguez sits next to her attorneys in a Milwaukee court. Morales-Rodriguez is scheduled for sentencing Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 for trying to steal a baby by attacking a pregnant woman and slicing out her full-term fetus, killing both the mother and child. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger, File)

Wis. woman sentenced to life for fetal abduction

Dinesh Ramde · December 13, 2012 9:16 pm

Astor son, 88, seeks to avoid prison in NY appeal

Jennifer Peltz · December 13, 2012 9:06 pm

GOP senator key to NY gay marriage OK concedes

Michael Gormley · December 13, 2012 8:54 pm