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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Tennessee to execute Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday, overturning a last-minute stay that stalled the state’s first execution of a woman in at least 200 years. Pike, 50, was initially scheduled to die by lethal injection in the morning for a killing she committed at age 18, and witnesses had already gathered at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville when the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to issue a stay. That court said a delay was needed to consider whether Pike’s allegations of childhood...

Just announced at 5pm news break. Christa Rogaliner, who had been missing since mid-December from her Leesburg, VA area home, was found unharmed in Maryland today. Credit for finding her was given to the TV Show "America's Most Wanted," which had featured her story this week.

FWD E-Mail: Please find attached information regarding the disappearance of a 17 yr old Loudon county girl. My husband, Jim, works with Christa's father. This is the second case of a disappearing 17 year old girl that we have become aware of in the last 4 days. In both cases, the girl's car was found with the keys in the ignition. The 2nd girl's father works with a friend of ours and she was a local (Columbia area) girl. Her body was found in a ravine not too far from her car. The car was found in a turn lane...

<p>A 17 Year old Loudoun County girl has been missing since Friday, December 12, 2003. Christa was last seen Friday morning at Dulles Town Center Mall in Sterling, Virginia. She had driven to the mall in a 1993 green Ford Escort Wagon and developed car trouble along the way. She arrived at the mall at approximately 10:00 am, went in to pick up a package and was seen as very distraught by associates in the mall. She was given directions to a local auto parts store in Sterling and left the mall with her package. She has not been seen since.</p>