NORCROSS, Ga. (AP) — Friends say a man gunned down along with his wife and other family members at an Atlanta area spa he co-owned was a prominent member of the community of roughly 100,000 Korean-Americans.

The rampage happened late Tuesday at the Su Jung Health Sauna when a gunman fatally shot two of his sisters and their husbands inside the business that is a gathering place for Korean-Americans in the affluent Atlanta suburb of Norcross.

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NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana's top elections official faced a final shot at regaining his office Thursday when his attorney planned to ask a judge to reduce each of his six felony convictions to misdemeanors.

Secretary of State Charlie White was scheduled to be sentenced on voter fraud, perjury, theft and other charges Thursday afternoon by Hamilton Superior Court Judge Steven Nation.

Defense attorney Carl Brizzi said he would ask that each of the charges be reduced to misdemeanors so White could hold onto his job, but one legal expert said Nation is likely to reject that request.

Joel Schumm, an expert on Indiana's judiciary who teaches at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, said it's not uncommon for a judge to reduce a first-time class D felony to a misdemeanor but the circumstances in White's case make that improbable.

"I have not seen it happen in a case with more than one felony, and the six felony convictions against White make it very unlikely," Schumm wrote in an email.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lawmakers under pressure from constituents in the months after the Casey Anthony trial have found it's not easy to toughen penalties for parents who don't immediately report missing children.

Seventeen states tried to pass "Caylee's Law" legislation — named after Anthony's 2-year-old daughter whose 2008 disappearance in Florida was not reported for a month — but many of these efforts have failed or stalled over concerns that proposed changes were too broad, and in some cases, not necessary.

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ATTALLA, Ala. (AP) — Roger Simpson said he looked down the road and saw a little girl running outside her home but didn't give it another thought.

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WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) — After searching more than a week for a woman who seemingly vanished after her house burned down, authorities finally got a lead: Jeffrey Allan Maxwell.

He had just cashed a 0 check from her, and his car matched the description of one seen driving down the rural road the day of the fire, but Maxwell hadn't lived in the area in years.

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KEENE, N.H. (AP) — Back when he was a self-described friendless recluse, Craig Carey spent hours sitting in a chair doing nothing or driving around in his car, alone.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — With the month of March looming, tornado chasers are already watching the Southeast as a nasty storm brews with the potential to spin off a batch of tornadoes.

But if funnel clouds develop Thursday or Friday as some forecasters believe, they won't be the first.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A medical examiner didn't find any evidence that an 82-year-old pilot suffered a medical event before the plane he was flying crashed in central Arkansas last year.

The crash in November near Perryville killed the pilot, his wife and two Oklahoma State University basketball coaches.

The Associated Press obtained copies of their autopsy reports and toxicology tests under the Freedom of Information Act.

The autopsy results showed that pilot Olin Branstetter's death was "essentially instantaneous," but a medical examiner couldn't determine much more because his remains were in bad shape after the crash.

Toxicology tests didn't find any drugs in his system.

Authorities didn't request toxicology tests for his wife, Paula, or Oklahoma State women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A jury convicted a former University of Virginia lacrosse player Wednesday of second-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend in a drunken, jealous rage, rejecting a first-degree murder verdict and a possible life sentence.

Instead, jurors recommended a 25-year prison term for George Huguely V in the May 2010 slaying of Yeardley Love.

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MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A bitter and often personal debate behind them, Republicans Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are shoring up their campaigns in different ways ahead of a series of crucial presidential primaries.

Romney is paying more attention to Michigan, his birthplace and the site of an unexpectedly tight race with Santorum, by attending a tea party rally Thursday night in an effort to get more conservative support.

Santorum is focusing for the moment on raising money for his cash-strapped operation.

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