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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS This walkway is located at the Tysons Corner Center shopping mall in McLean, Va. Police say a Virginia grandmother threw her 2 1/2-year-old granddaughter several stories to her death from the walkway after a family outing. The woman was arrested and charged with murder.

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** FILE ** This handout photo provided by Fairfax County, Va., Police Department shows Carmela Dela Rosa. A toddler has died after police say she was thrown off a shopping mall walkway in Virginia by a woman believed to be her grandmother. Dela Rosa of Fairfax was arrested and charged with aggravated malicious wounding; the charge will be amended to murder now that the girl, Angelyn Ogdoc, has died. (AP Photo/Fairfax County, Va., Police Department, (File)

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This courtroom artist's sketch shows terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud, right, and chief deputy public defender Stephen R. Sady, during an appearance in federal court Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, in Portland, Ore. Authorities say Mohamud and an FBI operative parked a van full of dummy explosives on Southwest Yamhill Street across from Pioneer Courthouse Square just after sundown Friday while thousands gathered in the square for the annual tree lighting. Mohamud is accused of attempting to detonate the explosives. (AP Photo/Abigail Marble)

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Steven T. Wax, right, federal public defender and Stephen R. Sady, the chief deputy public defender, speak to reporters following an appearance in federal court by terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, in Portland, Ore. Authorities say Mohamud and an FBI operative parked a van full of dummy explosives on Southwest Yamhill Street across from Pioneer Courthouse Square just after sundown Friday while thousands gathered in the square for the annual tree lighting. Mohamud is accused of attempting to detonate the explosives. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)

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** FILE ** This image released Nov. 27, 2010, by the Mauthnomah County Sheriff's Office shows Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19. (AP Photo/Mauthnomah County Sheriff's Office)

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Saba Ahmed, whose brother is a friend of the defendant, speaks to reporters following an appearance in federal court by terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, in Portland, Ore. Authorities say Mohamud and an FBI operative parked a van full of dummy explosives on Southwest Yamhill Street across from Pioneer Courthouse Square just after sundown Friday while thousands gathered in the square for the annual tree lighting. Mohamud is accused of attempting to detonate the explosives. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)

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A Christmas tree stands in Pioneer square on Saturday Nov. 27, 2010, the morning after a car bomb plot was foiled during the annual tree lighting ceremony. Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at the crowded ceremony, authorities said. (AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens)

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The crowd watches as the tree is lit on Pioneer Courthouse square Friday night, Nov. 26, 2010 to the music of Pink Martini and with Santa Claus. A Somali-born teenager, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody. He was arrested and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. He's scheduled for a court appearance Monday. (AP Photo/Torsten Kjellstrand - The Oregonian)

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The tree is lit on Pioneer Courthouse square Friday night Nov. 26, 2010 to the music of Pink Martini and with Santa Claus in front of a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd singing holiday music in the square. A Somali-born teenager, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody, federal prosecutors said. He was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. (AP Photo/Torsten Kjellstrand - The Oregonian)

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** FILE ** Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's longtime foreign minister, speaks to the Associated Press in Baghdad in September 2010. An Iraqi court on Monday convicted Aziz of terrorizing Shi'ite Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

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Associated Press At a news conference Tuesday in Rockville, Md., Gloria Allred, attorney for the family of homicide victim Brian Betts, displays a photo of the one-time principal of a D.C. middle School who was killed in his Silver Spring, Md., home.

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While patrolling in Cathedral City, Calif., police Officer Miguel Torres (left) and Mr. LaBella (second from left) stop teenagers who were riding bicycles without lights.

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A crowd watches a Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony on Pioneer Courthouse Square on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010, in Portland, Ore. Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried to blow up a van full of what he believed were explosives at the crowded event, federal authorities said. The bomb was a fake supplied by the agents, and the public was never in danger, authorities said. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Torsten Kjellstrand)

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** FILE ** In this March 10, 2009, file photo, disgraced financier Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal court in New York. Relatives of both Madoff and his wife are among those being targeted in 40 lawsuits announced Friday, Nov. 26, 2010, by the trustee endeavoring to recover money for victims fleeced by the disgraced financier. (AP Photo/David Karp, file)

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This image provided by the Multnomah County (Ore.) Sheriff's Office shows Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, arrested and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Officials say he tried to detonate a vehicle bomb at Pioneer Courthouse Square during the tree-lighting ceremony on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. They said the bomb was a dummy that FBI agents supplied him. (AP Photo/Multnomah County (Ore.) Sheriff's Office)

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The tree is lit on Pioneer Courthouse square Friday night, Nov. 26, 2010, to the music of Pink Martini in front of a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd singing holiday music in the square. A Somali-born teenager, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody, federal prosecutors said. (AP Photo/Torsten Kjellstrand -- The Oregonian)

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This image provided by KSWB-TV shows San Diego County Sheriff Bomb Squad officers at the site of a discovery of explosive material inside a home Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010, in Escondido, Calif. The officers also seized evidence that suggested use for armed robberies. (AP Photo/courtesy of KSWB-TV)

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In this undated file photo released by Townsville Coroners Court on June 20, 2008, Gabe Watson, left, and his wife, Tina, pose on their engagement. Watson, convicted of manslaughter in his wife's honeymoon death, was deported Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010, from Australia to the United States, where he is likely to face murder charges for the 2003 drowning. (AP Photo/Townsville Coroners Court, File)

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FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2010 file photo, actor Adrien Brody arrives at the 32nd Annual Carousel of Hope Ball in Beverly Hills, Calif. A federal judge in Los Angeles has blocked the makers of a thriller film starring Adrien Brody from using the Oscar-winning actor's likeness until he is fully paid for his role. U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer issued a ruling Monday, Nov. 22, 2010, blocking the makers of "Giallo" from continuing to distribute, market or sell the film in the United States. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, file)

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In this publicity image released by ABC, Capri Anderson, the woman who was found locked in a bathroom of actor Charlie Sheen's hotel room on Oct. 25, 2010 is shown with her attorney, Keith Davidson during an interview on "Good Morning America," on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010, in New York. Anderson said she's suing the actor for battery and false imprisonment, and plans to file a criminal report with New York City police. (AP Photo/ABC, Heidi Gutman)