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In this hospital surveillance photo released by the Phoenix Police Department on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, a woman is seen with her 11-year-old daughter, a leukemia patient who had her arm amputated and a heart catheter inserted due to an infection. Authorities say the woman inexplicably took the girl from the hospital last week. Police say that if the catheter is left in too long it could lead to a deadly infection. The familyâs identity is being withheld but they are calling the girl Emily. (AP Photo/Phoenix Police Department)

Father: Sick girl safe and being treated in Mexico

Brian Skoloff · December 6, 2012 3:51 am

Correction: Oldest Person Dies story

Washington Examiner · December 6, 2012 3:11 am

FILE - This Feb. 5, 2012 photo shows the exterior of Lucas Oil Stadium before the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game in Indianapolis. In a 54-page report focused on Homeland Security Department spending in the last few years in several states, Sen Tom Coburn, R-Okla, says some projects, including a $250,000 security upgrade at Lucas Oil Stadium, were questionable in an age of budget austerity and as the federal government faces a $16 trillion debt. (AP Photo/Pat Semansky, File)

Homeland Security grant spending questioned

Alicia Caldwell · December 6, 2012 2:57 am

Marine official: Manning held improperly in brig

David Dishneau · December 6, 2012 2:56 am

100 Canadians can smell like fresh pizza

Washington Examiner · December 6, 2012 2:40 am

Lawyer: Plea planned in NY subpoenaed-tweets case

Jennifer Peltz · December 6, 2012 2:34 am

Timeline of confessed Alaska killer’s travels

Washington Examiner · December 6, 2012 2:03 am

This combination of undated photos provided by the Dane County, Wis., Sheriff's Office shows, from left: Matthew Graville; Robert McCumber and Jeffrey Vogelsberg, right. Prosecutors have accused Vogelsberg of beating and torturing to death his autistic half-brother, Graville, in the bathroom of the house he shared with McCumber in Mazomanie, Wis. McCumber is charged with helping bury Graville's body. Vogelsberg faces an extradition hearing in Washington state on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 on a homicide charge. (AP Photo/Dane County Sheriff's Office)

Half brother accused of killing autistic Wis. man

Todd Richmond · December 6, 2012 1:52 am

FILE - This May 30, 2012 file photo shows Illinois state Sen. Donne Trotter, D-Chicago, at the State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. The Cook County State's Attorney's office said Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, that Trotter has been charged with a felony for allegedly trying to board an aircraft with a weapon. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File

Police: Gun found in Ill. lawmaker’s carry-on bag

DON BABWINTAMMY WEBBER · December 6, 2012 1:51 am

This NASA image from a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012 shows the United States at night The image was made possible by the new satelliteâs âday-night bandâ of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires, and reflected moonlight. (AP Photo/NASA)

New stunning nighttime views of Earth unveiled

Washington Examiner · December 6, 2012 1:47 am

Andres DeLeon of Baby's Steak & Lemonade in Orland Park, Ill, poses with a large supply of Hostess Twinkies at his restaurant, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. Baby's Cheesesteak and Lemonade gave away the coveted treats at its locations in Orland Park and Country Club Hills along with 2,200 chocolate cupcakes. The restaurant got the idea as a promotion after Hostess announced it was closing last month. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

Chicago-area restaurant gives away 10,000 Twinkies

Washington Examiner · December 6, 2012 1:46 am

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Anchorage Police Department shows Anchorage, Alaska, barista, Samantha Koenig, 18. A man who died in an apparent suicide this week in an Alaska jail after confessing to a string of killings had sexually assaulted and strangled Koenig the day after he abducted her, then left her body in a shed while he went on a two-week cruise and dismembered it when he returned, the FBI said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Anchorage Police Department, File)

Troopers: Alaska killer cut wrist, strangled self

Rachel D'oro · December 6, 2012 1:46 am