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Alleged Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, right, escorted by Thai police commando, arrives at Don muang airport in Bangkok on Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010. Thailand extradited accused Bout to the U.S. on Tuesday to face terrorism charges, siding with Washington in a tug of war with Moscow over whether to send him to stand trial or let him go home. (AP Photo)
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Alleged Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, right, escorted by Thai police commando, arrives at Don muang airport in Bangkok on Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010. Thailand extradited accused Bout to the U.S. on Tuesday to face terrorism charges, siding with Washington in a tug of war with Moscow over whether to send him to stand trial or let him go home. (AP Photo)
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In this photo taken Sept. 1, 2010, Transportation Security Administration employee Anthony Brock, left, demonstrates a new full-body scanner at San Diego's Lindbergh Field, with TSA employee Andres Lozano in San Diego. (AP Photo/San Diego Union Tribune, Eduardo Contreras)
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J.M. EDDINS JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES KEEPSAKES: LaVonne Abney's living room in Southwest Washington is a memorial to her son, Chicquelo, who was shot and killed a block from his mother's apartment.
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Chicquelo Abney was shot and killed in an alley in Southwest Washington, a block from his mother's apartment in what police say was an ambush gone awry. (J.M. EDDINS JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
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FAMILY PHOTO Chicquelo Abney, who was fatally shot in Southwest Washington on Oct. 12, 2009, was under the supervision of the District's Youth Rehabilitation Services.
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FILE - In a March 2, 2010 file photo Wesley Snipes attends a movie premiere in New York. Snipes was ordered to start his three-year sentence for failing to pay taxes at a federal prison in Pennsylvania next week. The U.S. Marshal's Office issued a notice Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 ordering Snipes to voluntarily surrender at the Federal Correctional Institution McKean in Lewis Run, Pa., by noon on Dec. 9. Snipes had tried unsuccessfully to remain free on bail while appealing his conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Firefighters spray an apartment building on fire in Shanghai on Monday. At least 42 people died in the blaze.
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U.S. DEA agents take alleged Jamaican gang leader Christopher "Dudus" Coke from a plane in White Plains, N.Y., to face charges.
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Phoenix Suns' Steve Nash (13) spins and dribble around Sacramento Kings' Beno Udrih, of Slovenia, during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Driver Trevor Bayne is surrounded by media prior to qualifying for the upcoming NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car race at Phoenix International Raceway Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, in Avondale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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**FILE** Maj. Nidal Hasan is seen April 9, 2010, at the San Antonio to Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas. (Associated Press/Bell County Sheriff's Department)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A Wateree River Correctional Institution farming program inmate in 2008 monitors milk cows in Rembert, S.C. The state prison will soon be home to South Carolina's largest dairy under one roof, as a $7 million expansion quadruples the herd at a prison farm.
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New York Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards arrives at court to face charges of driving while intoxicated and driving while impaired, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2008, file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers' Lorenzen Wright poses at the NBA basketball team's media day in Independence, Ohio. An autopsy shows former NBA player Lorenzen Wright, whose body was found in July, died after being shot at least five times. The autopsy report released Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 by the Shelby County, Tenn., Medical Examiner says Wright was shot twice in the head, twice in the chest and once in the right forearm. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
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Political wives have been viewed suspiciously in China ever since Jiang Qing (seen here), the widow of Mao Zedong, promoted his most radical policies, took part in purging opponents and ultimately made a grab for power. She was arrested and imprisoned after his death in 1976. (Associated Press)
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A write-in ballot is seen here in Juneau, Alaska. Election officials began poring over more than 92,500 write-in ballots in the Alaska Senate race on Wednesday, in spite of a federal lawsuit that's challenging the way the count is to be conducted. (Associated Press)
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Victim Elizabeth Smart arrives at the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City to testify Wednesday in the Brian David Mitchell trial. He is charged with kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines in 2002. If convicted, he faces a life sentence. (Associated Press)
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A write-in ballot is seen here in Juneau, Alaska. Election officials began poring over more than 92,500 write-in ballots in the Alaska Senate race on Wednesday, in spite of a federal lawsuit that's challenging the way the count is to be conducted. (Associated Press)
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The jury for Kevin A. Ring, seen in 2005, is deadlocked. He is charged with providing gifts to politicians in exchange for favors. (Associated Press)