LOS ANGELES — U.S. authorities said Thursday they have distributed a missing person poster and asked law enforcement officials on both sides of the border to look out for a mentally disabled man whose family claims he was wrongly deported to Mexico.

MOMENCE, Ill.  — A 5-year-old who disappeared with her grandfather while boating two days ago walked up to searchers Friday — naked, scratched and with berries in her hands — hours after the man’s body was pulled from the Kankakee River.

SAN DIEGO — A state appeals court has voided a man’s burglary conviction because one of the jurors misled lawyers and wrote a blog about deliberations during the trial.

CAIRO, Egypt — Arab nations threw their support behind the leadership of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, but also urged an immediate halt to infighting so that the unity of Palestinian lands can be preserved.

WASHINGTON — U.S. troops would no longer be asked to reveal previous mental health treatment when applying for security clearances under a proposal being considered by the Pentagon.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Breaking down in tears at his ethics trial, Mike Nifong abruptly quit as district attorney Friday after admitting he got “carried away” with statements during his discredited rape prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players.

LOS ANGELES — The first dead dolphin washed ashore with lacerations on its pectoral fin. The next showed up with a fatal bullet wound.

WASHINGTON — In his first public comments on the Bush administration’s surprise decision to replace him as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace disclosed that he had turned down an offer to voluntarily retire rather than be forced out.

WASHINGTON — Congress is moving to postpone until June 2009 requiring passports for land and sea travel to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean after complaints about vacation-ruining delays by the State Department in issuing them.