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Missing woman found dead in N.Y.

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) — A pregnant, diabetic woman missing for more than a week was found dead in a car outside a New York City police facility, apparently from an insulin overdose, authorities said Wednesday.

The Toyota Venza may have been parked on a street near an NYPD Bronx narcotics facility for several days, police said. The vehicle had dark, tinted windows that were hard to see through and the victim's seat was reclined, the New York Police Department said. The area is industrial, without a lot of foot traffic and isn't a precinct location.

The dead woman was identified Wednesday as Gizela Andrade, 32, of Mount Vernon, who vanished Sept. 25 after an argument with her boyfriend. She was four months pregnant and was diabetic.

Ad hits N.H. rival over foster parents

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Democratic New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch is criticizing Republican rival John Stephen in a new television ad over Stephen's decision while he was health and human services commissioner to let some felons be foster parents.

Stephen changed the rules in 2004 to let social workers decide if someone would make a good foster parent even if he or she had a criminal record.

Stephen said anyone convicted of a violent crime or a crime against a child would still be banned.

Court hears Jackson dad's estate appeal

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arguments to a California appeals court concluded Wednesday in a bid by Michael Jackson's father to remove the administrators of his son's lucrative estate.

A judge ruled in November that Joe Jackson did not have standing to intervene in the case and was not entitled to an evidentiary hearing to contest the administrators.

The three-judge panel of the Second District Court of Appeal listened to 40 minutes of arguments Wednesday by attorneys for Joe Jackson and for the estate.

The justices did not indicate when they would issue a ruling.

Ohio executes man who killed lover

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who bludgeoned his girlfriend to death and then stole her ATM card to buy crack cocaine apologized to the woman's family before he died by lethal injection Wednesday.

The sister of Michael Benge's victim said she doubted his remorse.