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Washington Wizards' Shelvin Mack (22) Ronny Turiaf and Roger Mason Jr defend as Philadelphia 76ers' Spencer Hawes (00) looks to pass in the first half of a preseason NBA game Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/H. Rumph Jr )

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George Mason senior guard Andre Cornelius was suspended 10 games for pleading guilty to misdemeanor credit card fraud in November. (Associated Press)

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Kevin Harpham has pleaded guilty in connection with a plan to detonate a bomb at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Wash., on Jan. 17. (Associated Press)

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In this film image released by Sony Pictures, Rooney Mara is shown in a scene from "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo." (AP Photo/Sony, Columbia Pictures, Merrick Morton)

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This Dec. 27, 2010 photo released by the Madison County Sheriffs Department shows Amber Portwood, Prosecutors in central Indiana have filed felony domestic battery and child neglect charges against the star of the MTV reality show "Teen Mom." (AP Photo/Madison County Sheriffs Department) Amber: Madison County Sheriff Ron Richardson has confirmed that Amber L Portwood has been booked into the Madison County Detention Center. Portwood was processed at approximately 4:21pm Mondat, her charges are as follows: Domestic Battery a Class D Felony, Ct-2 Domestic Battery a Class D Felony, Ct-3 Domestic Battery a Class A Misdemeanor and Ct-4 Neglect of a Dependent a Class D Felony. Bond $5,000.00. According to Sheriff Richardson Portwood's Bond has already been posted, but she will remain incarcerated in a holding area until she is eligible for release in twenty four hours.

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** FILE ** This Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, file booking photo provided by the Sudbury, Mass., Police Department shows Tarek Mehanna, of Sudbury, after he was arrested and charged with conspiring to plot terror attacks. The jury found him guilty, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, on four terror-related charges and three charges of lying to authorities after deliberating for about 10 hours. (AP Photo/Sudbury Police Department, File)

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Thomas Horn plays an 11-year-old boy whose father died on Sept. 11 in director Stephen Daldry's new Warner Bros. Pictures drama, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close." (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted from a security vehicle to a courthouse at Fort Meade, Md., on Dec. 19, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Women collapse in tears as North Koreans gather on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, in Pyongyang, North Korea, after learning of the death of their leader, Kim Jong-il. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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Jerome Isaac is led out of the 77th Precinct in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, following his arrest in the death of a woman set afire in an elevator. Isaac told police he set 73-year-old Deloris Gillespie on fire because he was angry that she owed him $2,000, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Robert Mecea)

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Kathleen Casey looks for a job in Cambridge, Mass. A case of mistaken identity landed Miss Casey on the streets without a job or a home. The company hired to run her background check for a potential employer mistakenly found the wrong Kathleen Casey, who lived nearby but was 18 years younger and had a criminal record. (Associated Press)

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This Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, surveillance photo provided by the New York Police Department shows a suspect wanted in connection with a homicide in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A woman burned to death in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment building Saturday afternoon after a man ambushed her, sprayed her with liquid and set her afire with a Molotov cocktail, police said. (AP Photo/New York Police Department)

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FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2011, file photo, Chicago Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd watches teammates practice during NFL football training camp at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Ill. Hurd was in jail Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, after authorities accused him of trying to set up a drug distribution network in the Chicago area and arrested him after he allegedly agreed to buy a kilogram of cocaine from an undercover agent. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

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Colton Harris-Moore, right, also known as the "Barefoot Bandit," stands with his attorney, John Henry Browne, in Island County Superior Court, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, in Coupeville, Wash. Harris-Moore pleaded guilty Friday to burglary and theft charges in the Barefoot Bandit case. The 20-year-old softly answered affirmatively when the judge asked if he understood his rights. He said guilty when the judge asked how he wanted to plead. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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** FILE ** Thomas E. Perez, the Department of Justice's Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. (Associated Press)

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Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary (right) arrives Dec 16, 2011, for a preliminary hearing related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case at Dauphin County Court in Harrisburg, Pa., surrounded by heavy security. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** The bottom of the blowout preventer stack, from the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, which is being examined as evidence for federal investigations, is seen Sept. 13, 2010, at the NASA Michaud Assembly facility in New Orleans. (Associated Press)

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'WHIPPING BOY': Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio calls the Justice Department report a politically motivated assault by the Obama administration. (Associated Press)

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Men hooked up to saline IVs crowd a hospital hallway in Diamond Harbor, India, on Thursday after drinking methanol-laced alcohol Tuesday night. The bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent scores more to hospitals. At least seven bootleggers have been arrested, and police were searching for two others suspected of supplying the spirits to poor villagers. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the campus in Washington on Dec. 15, 2011, where he announced action to provide minimum wage and overtime protections for in-home care workers. (Associated Press)