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Malie Metalwala, the four-year-old sister of missing Texas toddler, Sky Metalwala, has been returned to the custody of their father, Solomon Metalwala, on Friday.

Vanessa Bryant is ending her decade-long marriage to Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, as she filed for divorce on Friday. In the absence of a prenuptial agreement, she presumably is entitled to half his fortune, which is estimated to be a whopping $360 million.

Colton Harris Moore, better known perhaps as the Barefoot Bandit (so named after a famous crime spree that he committed barefoot), has been sentenced to 7-and-a-half years in prison, after he pleaded guilty on Friday in a Washington state court, on all 33 charges against him.

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A judge ruled on Friday that two former senior officials at Pennsylvania State University must stand trial on charges of lying to a grand jury about what they knew of sexual-abuse allegations against a former football coach, Jerry Sandusky.

A northern California judge has rejected the state's new protocol for lethal injections affecting death penalties. Judge Fay D'Opal, a Marin County Superior Court official, said correction officials had failed to explain why the single injection method, used in some other states, was not considered in the new rules; the current standard is a three drug injection method.

A Canadian sports doctor who treated top athletes and admitted bringing illegal performance-enhancing drugs into the United States was sentenced on Friday to probation for his role in transporting drugs across the border.

Alvaro Colom apologized Thursday for the government's role in the Dos Erres Massacre that left more than 200 civilians dead.

Grammy-winning R&B singer Etta James is terminally ill, her live-in physician said in an interview this week that confirmed reports of the singer's fading health.

Chevron Corp. officials Friday lauded the announcement made this week that Ecuadorean state-oil company Petroecuador will clean up tracts of the amazon allegedly polluted by Texaco.

Home-run king Barry Bonds avoided a prison sentence on Friday over a single criminal conviction related to an investigation of steroids in sports, a punishment one prosecutor called a slap on the wrist.

Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina have sought to halt Department of Justice challenges to their Arizona-style immigration laws, pending a U.S. Supreme Court review.

Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball's all-time home-run leader, was sentenced to 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation, and 250 hours of community service for providing a misleading statement to a grand jury. He also was fined $4,000.

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Blogger and human rights activist, Zainab al-Khawaja, who called Bahrain a dictatorship, was arrested Thursday during an anti-government protest in the Gulf kingdom.

Amanda Knox is free and home in Seattle, and in Perugia, where she once lived in a jail cell, a judge has published his report on the faulty police work that led to her arrest three years ago.

Credit rating agency Fitch told the Eurozone on Friday it thinks a comprehensive solution to the bloc's debt crisis is beyond reach, as it put an number of the bloc's economies including Italy on watch for potential downgrades.

Catherine died instantly, while Ben survived another week before expiring back in Wales.

Cold War militant Carlos the Jackal was sentenced to a second life term by a Paris court on Thursday after being found guilty of a number of bombings in France three decades ago.

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We have the ability to rein in excessive judges, Mitt Romney said.