Sunday,  March 31, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 255 • 28 of 30 •  Other Editions

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Transient with long criminal history is suspect in kidnapping of 10-year-old girl in LA

• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Investigators are seeking a transient who has a long criminal record in the kidnapping of a 10-year-old who was snatched from her San Fernando Valley home before dawn last week and abandoned hours later in front of a hospital, police said.
• Tobias Dustin Summers, 30, was identified by police Saturday as a suspect in the case but they couldn't elaborate on the motive or what led them to him. Police don't know if the girl was targeted but said they don't believe Summers had a connection to her family.
• "We have no information that the family knew this individual or that the individual knew any members of the family," Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said.
• About 40 detectives have been working around the clock looking for clues since the girl was abducted from her home Wednesday. She was found hours later, wan

dering near a Starbucks several miles away.
• The girl was barefoot, had bruises and scratches, and wasn't wearing the same clothes she had on when she vanished. She told the police two men she didn't recognize had taken her from her home.

Today in History
The Associated Press


• Today is Easter Sunday, March 31, the 90th day of 2013. There are 275 days left in the year.

• Today's Highlight in History:
• On March 31, 1943, "Oklahoma!," the first musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway.

• On this date:
• In 1889, French engineer Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.

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