John Mark Karr, suspected in the killing of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, has a conversation with Mark Spray, an investigator from the Boulder, Colo., District Attorney's office on a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok to Los Angeles Aug. 20, 2006. It was later determined that Karr could not have committed the crime.
Amish men are seen in front of the schoolhouse where a gunman shot several students and himself in Nickel Mines, Pa., Oct. 2, 2006. Police say a milkman with an old grudge barricaded himself in the tiny one-room Amish schoolhouse, let the boys leave and planned to molest the girls -- before opening fire when police arrived. Five girls were killed, plus the gunman.
Demonstrators wearing orange shirts spelling out "No Torture" stand in protest during witness testimony at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 25, 2006. The hearing involved proposals to limit Guantanamo detainees' access to habeas corpus review.
A fire burns in the apartment where a small plane crashed into a residential skyscraper in Manhattan on Oct. 11, 2006. The plane crashed into a 50-story condominium tower on the Upper East Side, raining flaming debris onto the sidewalks below. New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was one of the two men on the plane. Both were killed.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, left, stands with Chief Justice John Roberts as they pose for photos following an investiture ceremony with colleagues on the high court in Washington on Feb. 16, 2006. Alito joined colleagues in the courtroom for the first time, just for show, before the real work began on issues such as abortion, presidential wartime powers and the environment.
Annette Whyte collapses in grief onto the flag-covered casket of her son, Marine soldier Lance Cpl. Nicholas J. Whyte, during funeral services in Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 30, 2006. Whyte, 21, of Brooklyn, died June 21 after being hit by sniper fire while on patrol in Ramadi, Iraq. The U.S. death toll in Iraq neared 3,000 in December, with more than 100 U.S. soldiers killed in October alone.
Barbour County employee Bill Stemple lights candles on Jan. 6, 2006, at the base of crosses in Philippi, W.Va., for the four miners from the county who were killed in the Sago Mine explosion. An early morning explosion on Jan. 2 traps 13 miners underground in Tallmansville, W.Va. Twelve eventually die.
A dog named Elwood is seen during the 18th annual World's Ugliest Dog competition at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif., on June 23, 2006. Heather Peoples of Phoenix and her dog, Archie, took home a $1,000 prize for winning this year's contest.
Duke lacrosse player David Evans, right, stands with his teammates and his mother, Rae Evans, during a media conference in Durham, N.C., on May 15, 2006. Evans and two other players, all white, were indicted on charges of raping a black woman hired as a private dancer at a party attended by lacrosse team members on March 13. All three declared their innocence and say the woman is lying.
Antonio Gonzales, of Salt Lake City, waves a U.S. flag during an immigration rights rally, Sunday, April 9, 2006, in Salt Lake City. Demonstators across the U.S. gathered in an appeal to Congress to revamp the nation's immigration laws and give millions of illegal immigrants the chance to settle in the country legally.