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Actress Lindsay Lohan arrives at Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday. Miss Lohan was sentenced to 30 days in jail for a probation violation after she was terminated from a community service assignment at a women's shelter. (Associated Press)
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Actress Lindsay Lohan arrives for a probation hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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"Why would DHS want to keep this information from the committee? If there is nothing to hide, why wouldn't they provide Congress with these documents? Are administration officials concerned that the requested information will show that illegal and criminal immigrants intentionally released by ICE have gone on to commit more crimes?" — Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, Texas Republican
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Phyllis Murray, wearing a photo of her slain daughter, waits to enter the trial of Brittany Norwood, who is accused of fatally bludgeoning Jayna Murray in March inside the Lululemon Athletica shop in Bethesda, Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville. Ms. Murray testified in the case on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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With his wife Cindy, his daughters Erica, 10, and Alyssa,11, and son Jonathan,13, looking on at right Maryland Senate Majority Leader Rob Garagiola (D) delivers his speech as he makes an appearance to announce his campaign for Congress in Maryland's sixth Congressional District, at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown, Md, Tuesday, November 1, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Dr. Conrad Murray (center), flanked by defense lawyers J. Michael Flanagan (left) and Ed Chernoff, listens during the final stages of the defense during his involuntary manslaughter trial in the death of singer Michael Jackson in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, Pool)
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This undated image released by the FBI on Oct. 31, 2011, shows Richard Murphy (left) and Christopher Metsos in Queens, N.Y. Murphy was one of the ring of Russian sleeper spies shut down by federal counterintelligence agents in June of 2010 in a case code-named “Ghost Stories”, that led two weeks later to the biggest spy swap between the U.S. and Russia since the cold War. According to the FBI, Mestos is the 11th suspected ring member; he claimed to be a Canadian citizen, delivered money and equipment to the sleeper agents and vanished after a court in Cyprus freed him on bail. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, introduced the D.C. Employee Suitability Act of 2011 on Monday. It will get its first hearing Thursday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Phyllis Murray (center right), the mother of Jayna Murray, arrives at Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville on Monday for the murder trial of Brittany Norwood. Ms. Norwood is accused of slaying Mrs. Murray's daughter in March. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Montgomery County Police Detective Dimitry Ruvin leaves court in Rockville on Monday after testifying in the murder trial of Brittany Norwood. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, introduced the D.C. Employee Suitability Act of 2011 on Monday. It will get its first hearing Thursday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Martinelly Montano reacts during the trial at the Prince William County Judicial Center in Manassas, Va., on Monday. He faces up to 70 years in prison when he is sentenced Feb. 3 on the murder charge and a host of lesser related charges. (News & Messenger)
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Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul B. Ebert (right) called it a "tragic case all around." Mr. Ebert said he could remember past cases against illegal immigrants in which charges were dropped on the condition that the accused be deported — only to have them return soon afterward. "I don't concern myself with the immigration status anymore," he said. "We have to enforce the laws whether they're illegal immigrants or not." Ronald Reed looks on. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Luis Montano, the uncle of Carlos A. Martinelly Montano, and Martinelly Montano's mother, Maria Martinelly, discuss the case with reporters during a break in front of the Prince William County Judicial Center in Manassas, Va., on Monday. Martinelly Montano on Monday morning pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, two counts of maiming as a result of driving while intoxicated, driving on a revoked license and a third drunken-driving charge within five years. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Steel crosses honoring Utah State Highway troopers killed in the line of duty line Interstate 15 in Hurricane, Utah. The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of a 10th Circuit Court ruling that the crosses on public property violate the Constitution. (Associated Press)
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Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu checks a seized weapon after a news conference Monday during which multijurisdictional law enforcement agencies announced a bust of a major drug smuggling ring in Arizona. (Associated Press)
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Lawyer David W. Wilmot is the director of AutoPark Inc., a parking lot company he founded in 1986. Whether he still has a business license to operate in the District has been questioned and is being investigated. (The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 83, lies on a hospital bed inside the defendants' cage of a Cairo courtroom on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, as his historic trial begins on charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him. (AP Photo/Egyptian State Television, File)
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Frank Forgione (center) of the West Harrison (N.Y.) Fire Department removes branches from a fallen tree to free a damaged vehicle on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/The Journal News, Xavier Mascarenas)
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Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo paces the sidelines as his team plays Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. Notre Dame defeated Navy 56-14. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
