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Police: Suspect admits border-town killings

Jul. 17, 2009
A member of a fringe civilian border enforcement group has confessed to killing an Arizona man and his daughter because the 9-year-old's shooting death "weighed him down," a sheriff's investigator said.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler