Missing 11-year-old found near her home

Missing 11-year-oldfound near her home
STANTON, Calif. -- A missing 11-year-old girl was found late Thursday in a vehicle outside a motel near her home, two days after she was seen getting into a sport utility vehicle near where 5-year-old Samantha Runnion was kidnapped in July.
The girl, Bianca Marie Nunez, did not appear to be injured, police said.
Orange County sheriff's Lt. Hayward Miller said investigators were interviewing Bianca and someone he called her "associate."
"We do have the child in protected custody at this time," he said. "We do have a male detained. I'm not sure of that person's age at this time, but it's a young male."
Bianca was seen getting into a black or blue SUV on Tuesday, Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jon Fleischman said.
A playmate said the girl willingly got into the SUV, which was driven by a man described as being 16 to 18 years old.
Miller said a TV news crew may have been the ones to spot Bianca on Thursday.
Television station KABC said its reporters, who were outside Bianca's home, spotted the girl in a black sports utility vehicle and followed the car to a nearby motel, where authorities later found her.
Bianca's mother delayed reporting her missing for nearly a day because she thought she had to wait 24 hours, Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said.
Museum receivesJFK photos, film
DALLAS -- The Sixth Floor Museum said it has acquired new photographs and film taken the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
The museum said Thursday that footage taken by Jackie Tindel shows the presidential motorcade in the center of the downtown business district minutes before the assassination Nov. 22, 1963.
The film has not previously been shown to the public.
Maureen Hughes-Thompson donated to the museum footage that her late husband, Robert Hughes, took showing Kennedy's motorcade in Dealey Plaza and the assassination scene afterward.
The well-known footage shows movement in the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, from where authorities say Lee Harvey Oswald fired a rifle at the motorcade.
Among the 20 photographs donated by Jay Skaggs are two that show police Lt. Carl Day carrying a rifle from the building after the assassination.
The museum said the photos are the only known color photographs of the event.
Work resumes whereminers were trapped
PITTSBURGH -- Miners returned to work Thursday in the underground shafts where four months ago nine of their co-workers were trapped for more than three days by a flood.
Black Wolf Coal Co. resumed mining at Quecreek Mine soon after the state Department of Environmental Protection issued a permit that gave them the go-ahead.
The federal government had given its approval in October.
"Once we got the word, we started going," company spokesman John Weir told The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown.
"We're going to go around the clock."
The permit required the operators to drill exploratory holes to determine if there were other, undetected voids filled with water and set rules on which areas can be mined for six months.
The permit also increased the required barrier from 300 to 500 feet between Quecreek Mine and the abandoned mine that was breached accidentally last July, causing the flood that trapped the nine men.
"We believe the measures taken will keep the miners safe while allowing the Quecreek Mine to once again begin production and provide much needed income for their families," said DEP Secretary David Hess.
Ex-teacher gets 2 yearsfor planting fake bombs
SAN ANTONIO -- A former teacher was sentenced to two years in jail for planting fake bombs at two schools in 2000 and 2001.
Tania Faver pleaded no contest in September to planting five fake bombs in October 2000 and two in October 2001 at Dilley High School and two others at Bigfoot Alternative School in February 2000.
A new student at Dilley was initially charged with the first bomb hoax, but the charge was later dismissed.
He dropped out of school and obtained a general educational development certificate.
"I am very sorry for what I've done," Faver said Thursday at her sentencing hearing.
"I take total responsibility for what I did. I'm sorry for the young man who got nabbed for it as well."
Associated Press