Death penalty possible for teen in D.C. sniper case

FAIRFAX, Va. -- A grand jury indicted 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo on two counts of capital murder in last fall's sniper shootings, setting the stage for a death penalty trial.

The indictment, issued Tuesday and made public Wednesday, also includes one count of using a firearm in a murder. Both capital murder counts stem from the Oct. 14 slaying of FBI agent Linda Franklin.

The indictment officially marks the transfer of Malvo's case to adult court. A juvenile court judge ruled last week that Malvo could be tried as an adult, making him eligible for the death penalty if convicted of capital murder.

Judge rejects delay in Cardinal Law deposition

BOSTON -- After losing a last-minute bid to delay a sex-abuse deposition, Cardinal Bernard Law resumed answering questions under oath Wednesday for lawyers representing alleged victims of the Rev. Paul R. Shanley.

A transcript of the deposition was not expected to be released for several weeks.

Law, who stepped down as Boston's archbishop last month, has already been deposed six times in the case of Shanley, a retired priest who is awaiting trial on charges of child rape.

Law was Shanley's supervisor when he worked in the Boston area. In a deposition in June, Law said he never looked at Shanley's personnel file before promoting him to pastor in 1985. Shanley's file contained sexual abuse complaints dating back to 1966, but Law claimed he had no knowledge of allegations against Shanley until 1993.

Another day of testimony was planned for Feb. 3.

Girl, 2, stabbed to death at casino RV park

LAS VEGAS -- Attackers killed a 2-year-old girl and repeated stabbed her 10-year-old sister early Wednesday at a casino RV park in the desert town of Mesquite, authorities said. Three people were being held in Utah.

The assailants may have argued with the children's parents before attacking the girls inside the family's motor home, deputy police chief Joe Szalay said.

"It doesn't seem to be a random home invasion," Szalay said. "There's probably some type of association through friendship or some prior dealings."

The parents were not in the motor home when the children were stabbed shortly before 2 a.m., Szalay said. He declined to identify the family or say where the parents were at the time.

Texas executes man for killing grandmother

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A man convicted of bludgeoning his grandparents to get money for cocaine was executed Wednesday by injection.

Robert Lookingbill, 37, maintained his innocence but said he was resigned to die.

"When it comes, you can't run from it and I'm not going to run," Lookingbill said in a final statement from the gurney.

Lookingbill was convicted of beating his 70-year-old grandmother, Adeline Dannenberg, with a steel bar as she slept. She died 10 days later.

--From wire reports