The jury of seven men and five women decided Huguely did not plan to kill his onetime girlfriend Yeardley Love on May 2, 2010, when he kicked through her bedroom door, shook her violently, wrestled with her and left her bloodied in her bed. The 22-year-old was found dead by a roommate hours later.

But threaten the military’s budget, and the language becomes gory and apocalyptic. In the past six months, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other Pentagon officials have compared the arcane budget-cutting process known as sequestration, to:

Instead, Santorum’s comments were a new twist on a steady theme of his Republican presidential candidacy: that Obama and other Democrats have a secular worldview not based on the Bible, one they are intent on imposing on believers.

Since assuming the chairmanship of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in January 2011, the California Republican has held hundreds of hearings, made more than 700 requests for information and issued almost two dozen subpoenas.

Take, for example, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper’s appearance last week before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D- Mich.) told Clapper he was “concerned by recent news reports that the latest National Intelligence Estimate, or NIE, reflects a difference of views between the intelligence community and our military commanders over the security situation in Afghanistan.”

But it took her more than a decade to do it.

As the federal workforce endures a two-year freeze on basic pay rates and faces a possible increase in pension payments and as new employees will have to contribute more to their retirement program, Barbara Murchison has reason to smile.

Allow me to reassure you that the clip is worth watching with the following hypothetical Q&A:

Creator Dan Harmon broke the news on Twitter: “What you call 8:00, we call home. Community returns to Thursday nights on March 15th.” Megan Ganz, a writer for the show, put it a different way: “We're back! We're Backstreet Boys. We're Burt Bacharach. We're Back To The Future. We're back.”

John Carlson and Mathieu Perreault scored for the Capitals, who have lost three straight. Alex Ovechkin missed the game with a lower-body injury and is listed as day-to-day.

Dotcom, who ran the file sharing Web site Megaupload has been in custody since Jan. 20, the Associated Press reported, and had been denied bail earlier because the state of his bank accounts and other assets was unclear. Millions of dollars worth of cash, cars and other goods were seized by law enforcement officials following the executive’s arrest.

The bureau said it will look into whether banks are reordering customers’ debit-card charges to maximize overdraft fees. Reordering transactions can double or triple penalties, and the practice has been the target of several class-action lawsuits against the nation’s biggest banks.

TBS announced Wednesday it had signed up its late night host Conan O’Brien for two more years.

The Time Warner network noted the star has enjoyed three consecutive months of audience growth and that in January the show scored 27 percent more viewers than it had in October.