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• 8. WHERE HOLDER STANDS ON DRUG SENTENCING
• The attorney general is supporting a plan that would shorten prison terms for some non-violent drug traffickers.
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• 9. RENEGADE 'JEOPARDY' CHAMP DETHRONED AFTER 12-DAY REIGN
• Arthur Chu caused an uproar for his aggressive style of play, but finished with zero dollars in the latest edition.
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• 10. FORMER NFL STAR IN COURT FOR BAIL HEARING
• Darren Sharper, a former NFL All-Pro safety, is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting women.
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AP News in Brief
Malaysian aviation chief: No sign of missing plane in area shown by Chinese satellite images
• KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Planes sent Thursday to search the area where Chinese satellite images showed possible debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner found nothing, Malaysia's civil aviation chief said, deflating the latest lead in the six-day hunt.
• "There is nothing. We went there, there is nothing," Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told reporters in Kuala Lumpur.
• Adding to the mystery, The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. investigators suspect the plane flew on for four hours once it lost contact with air traffic controllers, based on data from the plane's engines that are automatically downloaded and transmitted to the ground as part of routine maintenance programs.
• The report, based on two anonymous sources, raises questions as to why the Boeing 777 would have been flying without passive or active contact with the ground, and if anyone would have been in control during that time. U.S. counterterrorism officials are considering whether a pilot or someone else on board intentionally disabled the jetliner's transponders to avoid detection and divert it, the report said.
• The hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has been punctuated by false leads since it disappeared with 239 people aboard about an hour after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early Saturday.
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