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Chamique Holdsclaw, shown in the District as a member of the Washington Mystics in 2000, was a six-time WNBA All-Star. Her career was derailed by clinical depression, and now she is an advocate of erasing the stigma of the condition and other mental-health issues. (The Washington Times)
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**FILE** One of two kittens euthanized because of mutilation of its claws. Photo from the Washington Humane Society.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addresses the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles on Sept. 17, 2012. (Associated Press)
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This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows death row inmate Ronald Post. Post, 53, scheduled to die Jan. 16, 2013, for the 1983 shooting death of a hotel desk clerk, wants his upcoming execution delayed. At 480 pounds, Post says he’s too heavy for the state’s lethal injection process. (Associated Press/Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Corrections)
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Opposition protesters react while listening to speakers during a rally in Moscow on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. The first major protest against President Vladimir Putin after a summer lull drew tens of thousands of people, determined to show that opposition sentiment remains strong despite Kremlin efforts to muzzle dissent. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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Col. Deborah Liddick will lead the Air Force's basic-training unit at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, where dozens of female recruits have alleged they were sexually assaulted or harassed by male instructors within the past year. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force)
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Afghans burn the U.S. flag in Herat, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, during a protest against an Internet video mocking the Prophet Muhammad that many fear could further aggravate Afghan-U.S. relations. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)
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Afghans burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest in Khost, south-east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. A few hundred of university students protested against an anti-Islam film which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman, in Khost, shouting "death to America." (AP Photo/Nashanuddin Khan)
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Protesters hold signs as they wait for the Virginia Board of Health meeting on abortion clinic regulations in Richmond, Va., Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Activists on both sides of the abortion issue have gathered outside the meeting and the board was scheduled to take comments before voting on the regulations Friday. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Sudanese protesters chant slogans as riot police stand guard during a protest in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Germany's Foreign Minister says the country's embassy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum has been stormed by protesters and set partially on fire. Minister Guido Westerwelle told reporters that the demonstrators are apparently protesting against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.(AP Photo/Abd Raouf)
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Demonstrators throw stones Sept. 14, 2012, outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia, during a protest against the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" as police respond with tear gas. (Associated Press)
