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House votes to end country limits on visas

WASHINGTON

The House voted Tuesday to end per-country caps on worker-based immigration visas, a move that should benefit skilled Indian and Chinese residents seeking to stay in the United States and the high-tech companies that hire them.

The legislation, which passed 389-15, was a rare example of bipartisan accord on immigration, an issue that largely has been avoided during the current session of Congress because of the political sensitivities involved.

The measure would eliminate the current law that says employment-based visas to any one country can’t exceed 7 percent of the total number of such visas given out. Instead, permanent-residence visas or green cards would be handled on a first-come, first-served basis. Similar legislation is pending in the Senate.

Dad arrested in death of 2-year-old daughter

SAN DIEGO

A New Jersey man suspected of killing his 2-year-old daughter by tossing her into a creek while she still strapped into her car seat has been captured in California.

The U.S. Marshals Office in San Diego confirmed that 27-year-old Arthur Morgan III was arrested Tuesday afternoon.

Morgan was the subject of a nationwide manhunt and had been featured on the website of “America’s Most Wanted.”

He is charged with the murder of Tierra Morgan-Glover on Nov. 21. Her body was found partially submerged in a creek in a park in Wall Township, N.J.

The girl’s mother, Imani Benton, called police after Morgan failed to return her from a court-ordered visit.

Pakistan steps up protest of NATO attack

ISLAMABAD

Pakistan withdrew from an international conference on stabilizing Afghanistan to protest the deadly attack by American forces on its troops, widening a fresh rupture in ties with a nominal ally that is endangering the U.S. plan for gradually ending the war.

In an unusually hostile comment, a top Pakistani army general said Tuesday that the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers were the result of a “deliberate act of aggression.” He said the military has not decided whether to take part in an American investigation into the weekend encounter along the mountainous Afghan border.

DNA tests show teen was victim of Gacy’s

CHICAGO

After her older brother disappeared in 1976, Laura O’Leary suspected that the 19-year-old construction worker probably had died at the hands of John Wayne Gacy. But the family was never able to prove it.

They got little help from authorities. And they couldn’t locate any dental records to compare with the skeletal remains found beneath the serial killer’s house.

So O’Leary waited, clinging for more than 30 years to a few items that once belonged to William George Bundy — a bracelet she’d given him for his 18th birthday, a high school photo ID and an autographed school book.

O’Leary’s worst suspicions were confirmed Tuesday, when authorities announced that Bundy was one of the eight unidentified young men found under Gacy’s home.

Associated Press