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Job seekers attend a National Career Fair in New York on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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D.C. Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe is sworn in before his testimony during a Council of the District of Columbia Committee on the Judiciary public hearing in the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, March 7, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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D.C. Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe keeps to himself before his testimony at the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday before the D.C. Council's Committee on the Judiciary to answer questions about a number of ongoing issues within the department. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson asks D.C. Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe questions at the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Chief Ellerbe appeared before the D.C. Council's Committee on the Judiciary. "I never meant to or intended to harass anyone," he said. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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An Israeli diplomat's wife, her driver and two other people in a nearby car were injured when a magnetic bomb is believed to have been attached to the diplomat's car and then detonated. (Associated Press)
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Vincent Groves, seen here in an undated photo provided by the Denver District Attorney's Office, was convicted of murdering three women and died in prison in 1996. Authorities said he killed four other women between 1979 and 1988 and might be responsible for as many as 20 homicides. (Associated Press/Denver District Attorney's Office)
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Nadia Kahf (right), executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Aref Assaf, president of the American Arab Forum, speak to the media March 3, 2012, as they leave a meeting with federal and state law enforcement officials at the Richard Hughes Justice Complex in Trenton, N.J. (Associated Press)
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Facial images based on forensic reconstruction of skeletal remains of two sailors aboard the USS Monitor, a CIvil War-era ironclad ship that sank in 1862, have prompted one federal agency to ask the public: do you know these men? (Images from NOAA)
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Facial images based on forensic reconstruction of skeletal remains of two sailors aboard the USS Monitor, a CIvil War-era ironclad ship that sank in 1862, have prompted one federal agency to ask the public: do you know these men? (Images from NOAA)
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** FILE ** Jailed Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford arrives in custody at the federal courthouse in Houston in August 2010. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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** FILE ** Dharun Ravi sits in a courtroom during his trial at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J., on Monday, March 5, 2012. (AP Photo/The Star-Ledger, John O'Boyle, Pool)
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**FILE** Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis testifies July 10, 2010, on Capitol Hill before the Senate Armed Services Committee. (Associated Press)
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Protesters hold banners that read "Freedom Syria" and "Stop the: lies, stealing, murder" during a March 6, 2012, rally against Syrian President Bashar Assad regime in front of the Syrian embassy in Belgrade, Serbia. (Associated Press)
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Monday that the decision to kill a U.S. citizen living abroad who poses a terrorist threat "is among the gravest that government leaders can face," but justified the action as legal and sometimes necessary in the war on terrorism.
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Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, Maryland Republican: "Law-abiding Americans should not have to prove to governments that they have a need to own and use a gun to defend themselves and their family members." (Associated Press)
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Russian police detain opposition activists Monday in St. Petersburg. More than 100 were arrested in Russia's second-largest city, where about 2,000 gathered to protest results of the presidential election.
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Virginia Capitol Police arrest more than 30 pro-choice activists when they refused to disperse as ordered. (Associated Press)
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Washington Nationals center fielder Roger Bernadina and Seattle Mariners outfielder Greg Halman were among a group of major leaguers who toured Europe in November. A week after they parted, Halman, 24, was dead, and his brother, Jason, was charged with murder.
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Richmond attorney William "Bill" Broaddus (center), a former Virginia attorney general and attorney for the defendants, carries documents March 5, 2012, into a Christiansburg, Va., courthouse on the first day of a civil trial in the wrongful death case brought against Virginia Tech and the state of Virginia by the parents of two students killed during a campus rampage in 2007. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** An unidentified defendant (back to camera) stands Feb. 18, 2012, before the Judge Nasser Seraj (center, facing camera) during his trial in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. A Tehran court began hearing the trial of 32 defendants in a $2.6 billion bank fraud described as the biggest financial scam in the country's history, state TV reported. (Associated Press)
