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This picture provided on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 by the Cole County Sheriff's Department shows Alyssa Bustamante. On Wendesday, Nov. 18, 2009, a judge entered a not-guilty plea on behalf of the 15-year-old-girl charged as an adult in the strangulation and stabbing death of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten.
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Atty seeks psych care for Mo. teen murder suspect

A teenager accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor should be sent to a psychiatric hospital because she shows signs of severe depression and anxiety, her attorney said.

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    Three Democratic moderates to decide fate of health bill - for now - in crucial Saturday vote

  • This Nov. 17, 2009 photo shows Arun Kumar, 13, returning from school to Apna Ghar, the children's shelter where he lives in New Delhi, India. Kumar, ran away from his abusive grandparents and worked in a textile factory before coming to the shelter. Two decades after the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, hundreds of millions more are still suffering from poverty, abuse and disease.

    Indian boy mirrors plight of millions of kids

    Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents, beaten by his grandparents, ran away from home, got a job in a garment factory and had all his savings stolen by the police. Video Available Photo Gallery Available

  • Maintenance man David Lee of Arvada, Colo., puts the finishing touches on a sign featuring President Barack Obama for a sales lot for pre-owned vehicles along Interstate 70 in the northwest Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge, Colo., on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. The billboard, completed by an artist Thursday, shows a grinning cartoonish Obama wearing a turban. The billboard says, "PRESIDENT or JIHAD?" Underneath the picture is a yellow square with the phrase, "BIRTH CERTIFICATE PROVE IT."

    Colo. billboard links Obama with jihadists

    A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up. Photo Gallery Available

  • Dr. Kernan Manion poses for a photograph in his officer in Hampstead, N.C., Friday, Nov. 20, 2008. Dr. Manion a psychiatrist was fired after he complained about conditions for his patients at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., In e-mails shown to The Associated Press, Manion had questioned why the clinic, a series of bug-infested trailers with paper-thin walls, was located near a firing range on the 240-square-mile base.

    Fired therapist: Stressed Marines get shoddy care

    Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist. Photo Gallery Available

  • In this photo provided by the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Department, David Allen Tyner is pictured in a booking photo dated Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Tyner, 28, surrendered at the Mayes County, Okla., Sheriff's Office on a warrant that included six murder complaints. Tyner has not been formally charged with any crime.

    Former Marine charged in 'Cathouse' star's death

    A former Marine was charged Friday with six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series "Cathouse." Photo Gallery Available

  • Wyoming challenges Yellowstone snowmobile rules

    The state of Wyoming has filed a new federal lawsuit seeking to block the National Park Service from restricting snowmobile numbers in Yellowstone National Park.

  • Former Marine charged in 'Cathouse' star's death

    A former Marine has been charged with six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series "Cathouse."

  • Fate of black teacher in Mo. case rests with jury

    A jury is deliberating the fate of a black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers in Missouri

  • Sears Tower plot leader gets 13-year prison term

    The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection was sentenced Friday to 13 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge.


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