Police find girl, man dead in storage unit

Police find girl, mandead in storage unit
CONWAY, Ark. -- A 13-year-old girl who disappeared from her home this week was found dead in a storage unit, along with the body of a California man believed to have abducted her.
The bodies of Kacie Rene Woody and 47-year-old David Fuller were found Wednesday after police went to the storage facility on a tip and heard a shot ring out.
Kacie and Fuller both suffered gunshot wounds; police believe the shot that was heard was Fuller committing suicide. Montgomery said officers did not fire their weapons.
Kacie had been reported missing Tuesday.
"We tried desperately to get Miss Woody back to her family safe, but we were unable," Faulkner County Sheriff Marty Montgomery said.
Autopsy results were pending. Police Maj. Mark Elsinger said police suspect the girl was sexually assaulted.
Authorities believe Kacie met Fuller in an Internet chat room about a month ago and that he likely deceived her into believing he was much younger.
Her brother reported her missing from their home in rural Holland, about 30 miles north of Little Rock. The children's father, a police officer in a nearby town, was at work at the time. Their mother died five years ago.
Woman pleads guiltyto starting wildfire
DENVER -- A former U.S. Forest Service employee pleaded guilty Friday to starting the biggest wildfire in Colorado history, which destroyed 133 homes and cost more than $29 million to contain.
Terry Barton, 38, admitted setting fire to federal land and making false statements to investigators in a plea agreement that calls for a sentence of six years in federal prison, according to court documents. She would serve five years and one month with time off for good behavior. Sentencing was set for Feb. 21.
There was no decision on how much Barton should pay in fines or restitution. Prosecutors claim $38 million in property damage to federal land, not including private homes and other structures.
Barton, whose job included watching for fires, told investigators she accidentally started the blaze in June while burning a letter from her estranged husband in a campfire ring. Authorities believed she started the fire deliberately.
Barton was fired after she was arrested.
Falsely accused officerregains custody of kids
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- A police officer cleared of killing his wife will regain custody of their two children, a judge ruled Friday.
Under the ruling, James Andros III will get full custody of his daughters effective Dec. 20. The girls have lived with their maternal grandparents since the March 31, 2001, death of Ellen Andros, 31, whose body was found at home by her husband.
An autopsy determined she was suffocated, prompting prosecutors to charge the Atlantic City policeman with murder.
The charge was dismissed Wednesday after a forensic pathologist hired by the state found that Ellen Andros died of natural causes caused by a rare heart condition that occurs primarily in young women with no prior history of heart problems.
Lawyers for Ellen Andros' parents argued Friday that the lives of Meghan, 7, and Elizabeth, 5, would be disrupted again if they were taken out of school immediately and returned to their father. The judge agreed to postpone the return so the children could participate in pre-Christmas activities in school.
Easy as pi
TOKYO -- To most people, it's a funny-looking Greek letter that has something to do with circles. To Professor Yasumasa Kanada, however, pi is an obsession.
Kanada and a team of researchers set a new world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places, project team member Makoto Kudo said Friday. The previous record, set by Kanada in 1999, was 206.158 billion places.
Figuring out pi to much more than about 1,000 decimal places serves little purpose in math or engineering, but researchers say it helps push computing power to a new level and can test the accuracy of supercomputers.
"It's an enormous feat of computing -- not only for the sheer volume, but it's an advance in the technique he's using," said David Bailey, the chief technologist at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
Associated Press