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NEW YORK (AP) , The Obama administration on Monday filed a last-minute appeal to delay the sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill to girls of any age without a prescription. The legal paperwork asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan to postpone a federal judge's ruling that eliminated age limits on the pill while the government appeals that overall decision.

Authorities have arrested a 12-year-old California boy for fatally stabbing his 8-year-old sister at her home last month. Calaveras County Sheriff Gary Kuntz told reporters that the boy was taken into custody Saturday afternoon and will be charged with killing his sister, Leila Fowler, Fox 40 reported.

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Growing up in Marion County, S.C., in the 1960s, I could not at the time appreciate the incredible wonders of my mother. She never thought she would marry in life and in her 30s was living at home with her father, Armstrong Howard. My father, James Williams, had been married to Theola Livingston and had four children.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) , Prince Harry of Great Britain, a combat helicopter pilot, along with Olympic swimming champion Missy Franklin, joined an American naval officer who was blinded in Afghanistan in launching the Warrior Games for wounded service members.

CLEVELAND (AP) , Three women rescued from a house a decade after they disappeared said Sunday that they are happy to be home and pleaded for privacy so they can heal and reconnect with their families. An attorney for the women also said they are extremely grateful for the support of family, law enforcement and the community.

VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) , Authorities have arrested the 12-year-old brother of an 8-year-old girl who was mysteriously stabbed at her home in a rural Northern California community last month. The boy, who was not identified, will be charged with homicide, Calaveras County Sheriff Gary Kuntz told reporters Saturday night.

A group of activists reclaimed a tract of land in Albany, Calif., owned by the University of California at Berkeley on Saturday in a takeover they termed Occupy the Farm. Several dozen people marched onto the land, called Gill Tract, to pull weeds and protest the university's plans to build a chain grocery store there, KTVU reported.

The senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee says Republican obsession over the White House's handling of the inquiry into last year's deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, is hurting the investigation.

Pushing back against critics who have said no new information emerged from last week's Benghazi hearing, Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday the congressional inquiry raised important questions about the military response to the 2012 terrorist attack.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) , The bodies of a woman and her 13-year-old son were found after a dayslong standoff, and her boyfriend was killed as officers stormed the home to rescue three other children he had been holding captive, authorities said Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) , Financial data and news company Bloomberg LP says it has corrected a "mistake" in its newsgathering policies and cut off its journalists' special access to client log-in activity on the company's ubiquitous trading information terminals after Goldman Sachs complained about the matter last month.

PHOENIX (AP) , It has become a real-life soap opera watched by people around the world and dozens of fanatics who camp out on a Phoenix sidewalk in the middle of the night to get into the show. One seat even sold for $200.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) , A California agency probing a deadly limousine fire that killed five women is considering whether to fine the limo company $7,500 per day for misrepresenting the limo's seating capacity. The California Public Utilities Commission had authorized the vehicle to carry eight or fewer passengers, but it had nine on the night of the deadly fire.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) , Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill stood in federal court Monday and compared her experience in the music business to the slavery her ancestors endured before a judge sentenced her to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the past decade.

WASHINGTON (AP) , A bipartisan Senate immigration bill would cost the government a net $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years to provide benefits for millions of people now living in the U.S. illegally, the Heritage Foundation said in a report Monday, setting off a fierce dispute with fellow conservatives who attacked the study as flawed and political.