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Emergency personnel search the dunes and scrub near Oak Beach, N.Y., across the road from where eight bodies have been found. (Associated Press)

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Evacuees of all ages use the stairs at Rikuzen-Takata No. 1 Junior High to bide time and to keep their knees strong in case they have to escape from earthquake aftershocks or another tsunami. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Former baseball player Barry Bonds arrives April 5, 2011, for his trial at federal court in San Francisco. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Heather Hodges, U.S. ambassador to Ecuador, speaks with Juan Carlos Toledo, Ecuadorean consul general in Miami, behind a display of pre-Columbian artifacts at the FBI's Miami field office in North Miami Beach, Fla., in September 2009. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Justice David Prosser Jr. and Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg, ended their March 21 debate with a handshake, but it hasn't been all pleasantries in their campaign for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. A lot of outside money has been pumped into the state in an effort to tip the scales on the state's new union law.

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Cynthia Willis visits a firing range in White City, Ore. She is suing the Jackson County sheriff over the denial of a concealed-handgun permit after acknowledging that she uses marijuana to treat arthritis and muscle spasms. (Associated Press)

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TURNABOUT: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. blamed hindrances by members of Congress. (Associated Press)

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Former University of Houston basketball coach Guy V. Lewis listens as former player Clyde Drexler speaks during a reception held in his honor, Friday, April 1, 2011, at the school in Houston. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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In this book cover image released by Henry Holt, "Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean," by Alex von Tunzelmann, is shown. (AP Photo/Henry Holt)

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Defense attorney Willie Baker leaves a courtroom following a hearing to determine if Oklahoma State's Darrell Williams will stand trial on felony charges, including rape by instrumentation, in Stillwater, Okla., Monday, April 4, 2011. A May 13 trial date was set. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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From left, Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft of the Coast Guard, Lt. Gen. Richard Y. Newton III of the Air Force, Vice Adm. Michael Vitale of the Navy, Lt. Gen. Terry G. Robling of the Marine Corps, and Maj. Gen. Karl Horst of the Army throw out first pitches Thursday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker answers news media questions March 31 after a circuit judge forced him to halt implementing a law that cripples collective bargaining. (Associated Press)

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Capt. Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) uses the source code to investigate the final eight minutes before a train explosion in a scene from "Source Code." He must discover who planted the bomb before the next attack takes place.

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MTV's "Teen Mom," Jenelle Evans, was arrested after the release of an Internet video of her attacking another woman. (Associated Press)

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In this image released by the Atlanta Police Department Thursday, March 31, 2011, Rashan S. Michel poses for a booking image in Atlanta. Michel, 36, was arrested and charged with one count of simple battery, according to Officer K.Y. Jones with Atlanta police. Hall of Famer and Atlanta Hawks television analyst Dominique Wilkins was allegedly attacked by a Michel after the team's victory Wednesday night over the Orlando Magic, the team said. (AP Photo/Atlanta Police Department)

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** FILE ** Gov. Susana Martinez in Albuquerque, N.M., on Wednesday, March 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

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** FILE ** Wisconson Secretary of State Douglas La Follette, right, confers with assistant attorneys general Maria Lazar, foreground, and Steven Kilpatrick, center, after a judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday, March 18, 2011, barring the publication of a controversial new law that would sharply curtail collective bargaining for public employees during a hearing in Dane County Court in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Pool, Mark Hoffman)

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FILE - This 2011 photo shows San Francisco Giants baseball pitcher Barry Zito. Zito was taken to a hospital after his car was hit broadside at a West Hollywood intersection. The crash occurred shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, 2011, at Sunset Boulevard and Sunset Plaza Drive, Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Joseph Morien told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

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Libyan rebels riding in the back of an armed pickup truck brave a sandstorm on the main road heading to Benghazi while leaving the eastern town of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this April 18, 2007 file photo, Judge Judy Sheindlin is shown at a party held by CNN celebrating Larry King's fifty years of broadcasting in New York. TV's "Judge Judy" is hospitalized in Los Angeles for an undisclosed condition. A spokesman for 68-year-old Judy Sheindlin says the judge is "feeling much better" after being taken from her show taping by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday, March 30, 2011.( AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)