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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)

FBI: Alaska barista assaulted, dismembered

Rachel D'oro · December 5, 2012 5:13 am

FILE - This Tuesday, July 19, 2011 image provided by NASA shows the International Space Station photographed by a member of Atlantis' STS-135 crew during a fly around as the shuttle departed the station on the last space shuttle mission. A panel of outside experts said Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 that NASA is adrift without a coherent vision for where it should be going. The report by the National Academy of Sciences doesn't blame the space agency. It faults the president, Congress and the nation. (AP Photo/NASA)

Expert panel: NASA seems lost in space, needs goal

Seth Borenstein · December 5, 2012 5:00 am

Officials investigating firehouse over sexy video

Washington Examiner · December 5, 2012 4:53 am

Uniformed and plainclothes police officers stand outside a New York subway station after a man was killed after falling into the path of a train, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Transit officials say police are investigating whether he could have been pushed onto the tracks. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Suspect in deadly NYC subway push implicates self

Verena Dobnik · December 5, 2012 4:17 am

A worker from Pacific General Engineering works to clear the damage on the road caused by overflow water from Lafayette Creek in Lafayette, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. Just as Northern California residents recovered from a series of wet, windy storms, another system on the way is expected to drench the area. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Drenched Northern California gets more rain

Terry Collins · December 5, 2012 4:16 am

Tulsa fires athletic director over gambling probe

Washington Examiner · December 5, 2012 3:40 am

Police respond to a report of a shooting after the bodies of four people were found outside a boarding house in Northridge, Calif., Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Francine Orr) MANDATORY CREDIT NO MAGS, NO SALES NO FOREIGN NO TELEVISION, INTERNET. LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, VENTURA COUNTY STAR, INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN, AND LA OPINION OUT

LA police: 4 arrests in killings of 4 outside home

Greg Risling · December 5, 2012 3:38 am

People were lined along the front of St. Boniface Catholic Church in Cold Spring, Minn., to pay their respects during a visitation for Cold Spring-Richmond Police Officer Tom Decker, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2012. The investigation into the killing of Decker in Cold Spring continues, and authorities were still looking for the 20-gauge shotgun that is believed to be the murder weapon, officials said. (AP Photo/St. Cloud Times, Jason Wachter)

Suspect released in slaying of Minnesota officer

Amy Forliti · December 5, 2012 3:36 am

Obama uncle in Mass. gets new deportation hearing

Rodrique Ngowi · December 5, 2012 3:01 am

1 more guilty of hate crime in Miss. rundown case

EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS · December 5, 2012 2:44 am

Woman, 116, listed as ‘world’s oldest’ dies in Ga.

Washington Examiner · December 5, 2012 2:08 am

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)

Sick girl sought after mom takes her from hospital

Brian Skoloff · December 5, 2012 1:53 am