PITTSBURGH: Missing teen found in Virginia home
A 13-year-old girl who disappeared from her home on New Year's Day, possibly to meet a man she met on the Internet, was found restrained in a home in northern Virginia.
A tip to the girl's location had come from a man in Florida who saw a Web cam photo of her and matched it with a newspaper photo of the missing teen, the FBI said.
Scott Tyree, 38, of Herndon, Va., was arrested Friday in the disappearance of the girl, said FBI Agent Jack Shea.
Tyree was charged with illegal transportation of a minor for the purpose of engaging in illegal sexual conduct, a felony that carries up to 15 years in prison, said U.S. Atty. Mary Beth Buchanan.
Ohio: Suspects in shootings surrender peacefully
Police on Saturday arrested two men suspected of opening fire in an apartment, killing a 3-year-old girl and a teen-ager and wounding six others.
The men surrendered peacefully when police surrounded their Motel 6 hotel room in Dayton, said Sgt. Ken Greco, of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office.
Jeronique Cunningham, 29, and Cleveland Jackson, 21, both of Lima, Ohio, were arrested after police received a tip the suspects were in the Dayton area, Greco said.
Authorities allege the two killed Leneshia Williams, 17, and Jayla Grant, 3, and wounded six others Thursday in Lima, about 70 miles southwest of Toledo. Police Chief Greg Garlock has said the victims knew the gunmen and let them in.
Authorities would not discuss their possible motive.
NEW YORK: Flight 587 probe focuses on pilot error
Investigators examining the November crash of an American Airlines jet have yet to find pre-existing flaws in the plane's tail section, and are now studying whether the pilot's actions were directly responsible for the disaster.
Flight 587, en route the morning of Nov. 12 to the Dominican Republic from Kennedy Airport, nosedived into Belle Harbor, Queens, minutes after takeoff.
The vertical tail and attached rudder were the first to break off, leading National Transportation Safety Board investigators to initially suspect the parts were defective.
But authorities said Saturday that the tail section of a new plane could snap off under overbearing flight conditions, and are now focusing their attention on the pilot, who in his attempts to control the plane may have caused the tail to tear off.
ATLANTA: Media mogul to turn attention to restaurants
Billionaire media entrepreneur and rancher Ted Turner is hoping to create a new empire: a restaurant chain featuring 25 versions of the bison burger.
The first Ted's Montana Grill opens in mid-January in Columbus, Ohio, with a menu offering bison with avocado, bison with jalapenos and even bison with fried eggs, cheese, ham, bacon and mushrooms.
Nine more restaurants are to open in the next year in Baltimore, Denver, Atlanta and Nashville, Tenn., among other locations.
The 63-year-old Turner is considered the nation's largest bison rancher, with 30,000 animals a tenth of the U.S. herd scattered on 1.75 million acres in the West.
Alabama: Fiery collision collapses overpass
A tanker truck and a car collided Saturday on a downtown Birmingham interstate, killing one person and sparking an explosion and fire that partially collapsed an overpass at one of the state's busiest interchanges.
Three people in the car escaped unharmed. At least one person in the truck was believed dead, fire department officials said. No identities were released.
A police spokesman said the 18-wheel truck and car were both northbound about 10:30 a.m. on Interstate 65 and collided right before the interchange with Interstate 20 and Interstate 59.
A 50-foot section of the four-lane overpass was sagging about 8-10 feet, and Irby said officials feared it would fall.
Colorado: Small plane crashes northwest of Boulder
A single-engine airplane crashed and exploded in foothills northwest of Boulder, killing one person, a sheriff's spokesman said Saturday afternoon.
The plane went down on a hillside before 4 p.m., Boulder County Sheriff's Supervisor Jay Willette said. He did not know whether anyone else was on board.
The site is inaccessible to vehicles, and rescuers had to walk to the debris. The fire was out by the time the first rescuers arrived, Willette said.
He did not know where the flight originated or where it was headed.
Kimberly Kenyon, a Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controller at the Jefferson County Airport, said winds were gusting up to 50 mph Saturday in the area.
BOSTON: MIT seeks license fees for image editing uses
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a California company have filed a lawsuit in Texas, claiming that 94 companies including Microsoft Corp. illegally used patented image-editing software.
MIT says Electronics For Imaging Inc., of Foster City, Calif., has an exclusive license for the software, developed by an MIT professor and used in products such as photo scanners and digital cameras. The patent expires this year.
In the lawsuit, filed last week in a federal court near an EFI office in Texarkana, Tex., EFI demands the other companies pay license fees for the past six years. An EFI spokesman would not say how much the fees are.
EFI won control of the patent in 1990 and has licensed it to 16 other companies, including Apple Computer Corp. and Xerox Corp. The software design firm shares the revenue with MIT.
Companies named in the lawsuit include Polaroid Corp., International Business Machines Inc. and Microsoft.
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