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What 'Gone Girl' Does (and Doesn't) Tell Us About Mental Illness 10/27/2014 12:00am • "Gone Girl's" Amy Elliot Dunne is a lot of things. She's beautiful, she's manipulative, she's self-centered -- and she's very decidedly not normal. Dunne also could be a lot of things. She could be a psychopath, she could have narcissistic personality disorder -- or she could just be a girl gone w Former university VP faces accusers in civil trial 10/26/2014 11:00am • MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press They came from broken homes to a state university in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains and met the father figure they never had: a school vice president who offered them scholarships or campus jobs as they adjusted to college life. But then came the pressure for sexua Afghan mullah jailed for 20 years for rape 10/26/2014 10:20am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan court has sentenced a mullah to 20 years in prison after finding the religious teacher guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl.The sentence, passed by a Kabul judge on Saturday, has been welcomed by family as well as women's support groups as a rare victory in their 2 arrested in killing of 9-year-old Anaheim girl 10/25/2014 08:26pm • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Two gang members were arrested in the killing of a 9-year-old Anaheim girl who was hit by stray gunfire while playing outside her apartment, police said Saturday.Ricardo Cruz, 19, of Buena Park and Alfredo Miguel Aquino, 20, of Anaheim were arrested late Friday and booked on Medical examiner: Remains are Hannah Graham 10/24/2014 04:44pm • WASHINGTON - The human remains found at an abandoned Albemarle County property last weekend are those of missing U.Va. student Hannah Graham, Albemarle officials said. The Medical Examiner's Office in Richmond publicly released the identification Friday. The cause and manner of Graham's death Marine murder case reveals US-Philippine sore spot 10/24/2014 01:38pm • JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- American forces are guarding Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton, yet a ring of Filipino troops surrounds them. The seemingly redundant security effort around the suspect in a Philippine murder case reflects Manila's uneasy ties with Washington, 'Cadaver dog' work more accepted by cops, courts 10/23/2014 12:10pm • MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer BENTON, Calif. (AP) -- The burly Labrador retriever sticks out his wide snout to sniff the dirt and dusty air. He's clearly excited as he runs, yelping, through the high desert of California's Eastern Sierra region."Buster, go find!" Paul Dostie commands.They are a t Canada's PM says shooting rampage was terrorism 10/23/2014 07:56am • BENJAMIN SHINGLER Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) -- Two deadly attacks in three days against members of the military stunned Canadians and raised fears their country was being targeted for reprisals for joining the U.S.-led air campaign against an extremist Islamic group in Iraq and Syria."We Canada's PM says shooting rampage was terrorism 10/23/2014 01:48am • JEREMY HAINSWORTH Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) -- A masked gunman killed a soldier standing guard at Canada's war memorial Wednesday, then stormed Parliament in an attack that was stopped cold when he was shot to death by the ceremonial sergeant-at-arms. Canada's prime minister called it th Iranians protest acid attacks in central city 10/22/2014 02:20pm • ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranians rallied on Wednesday in the central city of Isfahan and the capital, Tehran, to protest a string of acid attacks on women in Isfahan in recent months, the latest public outcry over the assaults that have shocked the nation.About 2,000 'Blade Runner' Pistorius gets 5 years in prison 10/22/2014 11:30am • What do you think about the five-year sentence given to Oscar Pistorious for the death of his girlfriend? Post a comment in this story, comment on WTOP's Facebook Page or use #WTOP on Twitter. CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Oscar Pistorius was senten Lawyers: Suspects retract claims they killed Brits 10/22/2014 08:00am • BANGKOK (AP) -- Two Myanmar migrant workers have retracted their confessions to killing two British travelers on a southern Thai resort island and now claim to have neither raped the female victim nor slain the pair, the men's lawyers said Wednesday.Human rights lawyer Rasada Manurasada said the arr Marine suspect transferred to Philippine detention 10/22/2014 07:24am • JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The U.S. military turned over a Marine suspect in the gruesome killing of a transgender Filipino to the Philippine military's main camp in the capital Wednesday, easing a looming irritant over his custody, officials said.Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Expert: PTSD could be factor in activist's past 10/22/2014 07:22am • ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) -- A Chicago Palestinian activist could have been affected by post-traumatic stress disorder when she failed to disclose on a U.S. citizenship application that she was convicted of bombings in Israel in 1969, a psychologist testified Tuesday.Mary Fabri appeared Jewish group shifts view on Nazi benefit payments 10/22/2014 07:21am • RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- An influential Jewish advocacy group said Tuesday it no longer supports allowing suspected Nazi war criminals to receive Social Security benefits.World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said in a statement to The Associated Press that U.S. la