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This image provided by the Taft Midway Driller/Doug Keeler shows paramedics assisting a student wounded during a shooting Thursday Jan. 10, 2013 at San Joaquin Valley high school in Taft, Calif. Authorities said a student was shot and wounded and another student was taken into custody. (AP Photo/Taft Midway Driller, Doug Keeler) MANDATORY CREDIT

1 student shot at high school in Taft, Calif.

Associated Press · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

Maryland lawmaker Don Dwyer announces committee transfer

Associated Press · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

Virginia Supreme Court sides with sperm-donor father

Virginia Supreme Court sides with sperm-donor father

Associated Press · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

Walter Coles Sr., bottom right, chairman of Virginia Uranium Inc. and owner of the land where the uranium is located in Pittsylvania County Va., listens during a press conference on uranium mining legislation at the Capitol Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Virginia uranium backers take their message to Capitol

Associated Press · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this June 6, 2012, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama had a clear political edge in his fight with Republicans over the fiscal cliff, and used it to his advantage. In the upcoming battle over federal borrowing and spending, the leverage will be more evenly divided and the outcome less predictable. In the fiscal cliff fight, Obama wanted to block automatic New Year's Day tax increases on everyone but the country's highest earners. Republicans were trying to protect upper-income people from those tax hikes, but eventually gave in because they didn't want to be blamed for the higher middle-class taxes that a stalemate would have triggered. Next come three deadlines that will almost certainly become entwined. The government will run out of cash in about two months and the Obama administration will need congressional approval to borrow more money or face a first-ever federal default, threatening global, economy-rattling consequences. Boehner and McConnell have said they won't agree to a debt-limit extension without an accord to cut spending. Just as adamantly, Obama says the government's debt ceiling must be raised and he won't negotiate over it, though he says he would bargain over spending cuts and tax increases to reduce federal deficits. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Q&A: Obama lacks clear edge in next fight with GOP

Associated Press · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

Former Indiana Lt. Gov. Robert Rock dies at 85

Former Indiana Lt. Gov. Robert Rock dies at 85

Associated Press · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

Dan Gross, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, center, speaks outside the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, following a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, victims' groups and gun safety organizations in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex. From left are, William Kellibrew, Witness to Violence & Founder William Kellibrew Foundation; Hildy Saizow of Arizona for Gun Safety; Colin Goddard, a survivor of Virginia Tech shooting; Annette Nance-Holt, mother of victim to gang violence; and Lonnie Phillips, stepfather of a Aurora, Colo., shooting victim. Biden is holding a series of meetings this week as part of the effort he is leading to develop policy proposals in response to the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Joe Biden says consensus emerging on gun safety

Associated Press · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

NFL playoffs preview: Here come the big boys

Associated Press · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

Virginia State Parks sets attendance record in 2012

Virginia State Parks sets attendance record in 2012

Associated Press · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

Group spending $90,000 in Kentucky on anti-smoking ads

Group spending $90,000 in Kentucky on anti-smoking ads

Associated Press · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - Barack Obama, left, joined by his wife Michelle, takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts to become the 44th president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., in this Jan. 20, 2009 file photo. Obama is putting a symbolic twist on a time-honored tradition, taking the oath of office for his second term with his hand placed not on a single Bible, but two, one owned by Martin Luther King Jr. and one by Abraham Lincoln. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Obama using MLK, Lincoln Bibles during oath

Associated Press · January 10, 2013 5:00 am

Minnesota likely to see minimum-wage hike

Minnesota likely to see minimum-wage hike

Associated Press · January 10, 2013 5:00 am