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Commonwealth Attorney Warner Chapman leaves the Charlottesville Circuit courthouse after another delay in the trial of George Huguely V in Charlottesville, Va., Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Vin Ippolito owns a barbershop in Waterbury, Conn., across the street from a Latino-owned shop operating with unlicensed barbers. Enforcement of license laws is part of a culture clash brewing in the city of 110,000. (Associated Press)

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Mourners carry the coffins of two protesters at Mazzeh district in Damascus. Activists say that they were killed by Syrian security forces during a demonstration. (Associated Press)

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A Homeland Security police car is shown parked outside the Long Beach, Calif., Federal Courthouse.

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Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu speaks at a news conference on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, in Florence, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Deirdre Hamill)

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Defense attorneys Rhonda Quagliana, left, and Francis McQ. Lawrence, right, walk into the Charlottesville Circuit courthouse for George W. Huguely V's trial in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Norm Shafer)

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An artist rendering shows Amine El Khalifi before U.S. District Judge T. Rawles Jones Jr. in federal court in Alexandria, Va., on Feb. 17, 2012. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Capitol Police officers keep watch after a 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday in an FBI sting operation near the Capitol while planning to detonate what police said he thought were live explosives, in Washington, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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This undated photo shows confiscated evidence found at a remote camp littered with supplies and trash in the southern Utah wildness near Zion National Park. Authorities believe the material at the camp was left behind by a suspect in more than two dozen burglaries of mountain cabins over an area of roughly 1,000 square miles for the past five years. (Associated Press/Iron County Sheriff's Office)

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Streets surrounding the federal building on Ocean Boulevard in downtown Long Beach are closed Feb. 16, 2012, after an ICE agent shot and injured another agent and was then killed by a third colleague in the building according to the FBI. (Associated Press/Long Beach Press Telegram)

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Firefighters battle a blaze at a house where authorities say at least three people were shot and wounded Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, in east Los Angeles. A 34-year-old man and two 38-year-old women had been shot and police took them from the front of the home, authorities said. They were taken to the hospital in serious condition but were expected to survive, police and fire officials said. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)

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Denny Jones (left) flanked by D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray (right) as he offers remarks regarding the settlement of the lengthy Dixon v. Gray case over the District's mental health system, in the John A. Wilson Building in the District on Thursday, February 16, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)

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Blanca Flores, wife of dead inmate Oscar Soto, cries outside the prison in Comayagua, Honduras, on Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012. A fire started by an inmate late Tuesday tore through the prison, killing 358 inmates, said Supreme Court Justice Richard Ordonez, who is leading the investigation. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Job postings are on display at a JobTrain employment center in Menlo Park, Calif., on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that self-insuring religious employers will be exempted from a contraception coverage mandate. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. joined her Tuesday for the release of a health care fraud and abuse control program report. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Chicago police arrest activists during a 2003 anti-war demonstration. A city alderman is pushing an ordinance barring electronic-device blackouts by police at the May G-8 and NATO summits.

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L.A. Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter says it is not unusual that Whitney Houston's medical providers have been subpoenaed to provide records on her. (Associated Press)

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Reality television producer Bruce Beresford-Redman has been ordered to stand trial in the killing of his wife at a Cancun, Mexico, resort in 2010. (Associated Press)

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A woman grieves hysterically Wednesday outside the burned-out prison in Comayagua, Honduras. The local governor, a former prison employee, told reporters an inmate called her to say he was going to set the lockup ablaze and kill everyone inside.

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Soldiers scramble during clashes Wednesday with relatives of inmates after a deadly prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras. As many as 350 inmates are missing and presumed dead and at least 21were injured in the blaze, authorities said. (Associated Press)