National News From ABCnews.com

• Prince Andrew's lawyer wants to keep 2009 legal deal sealed
  Prince Andrew's lawyer has asked a New York judge to keep sealed a 2009 legal agreement that he says can protect Andrew against a lawsuit's claims that he sexually assaulted an American woman when she was under 18
• Lawsuit: Suburban St. Louis police officers beat Black man
  A suburban St. Louis man alleges in a lawsuit that police officers beat him and illegally searched his apartment after claiming he had committed a minor traffic infraction
• Judge briefly blocks Texas schools' gender-based hair policy
  A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Texas school district's enforcement of a grooming policy that prohibits boys — and not girls — from having long hair
• Former hospital executive wins $10M in discrimination case
  A former top executive in a North Carolina-based health care system who claimed in a lawsuit that he lost his job because he is a white male has been awarded $10 million by a federal jury
• Timeline of serial killer John Wayne Gacy's life, case
  Authorities have identified a victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy as Francis Wayne Alexander, a North Carolina native who moved to Chicago shortly before disappearing sometime between early 1976 and early 1977
• Nor'easter has New England bracing for floods, power outages
  Forecasters are warning that a nor'easter barreling up the U.S. coast could bring flooding, hurricane-force wind gusts and widespread power outages to New England
• Last firefighter injured in apartment blast out of hospital
  The last firefighter injured in a Dallas apartment blast last month is out of the hospital
• Sheriff: Newly ID'd Gacy victim's death was news to family
  Authorities say a North Carolina native who moved to Chicago was one of the victims of John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of killing 33 young men and boys in the 1970s
• Mistrial granted as jury deadlocks in Georgia stun-gun death
  Faced with deadlocked jurors, a judge has declared a mistrial on charges against three former Georgia sheriff’s deputies
• Child's death ruled homicide, remains found in apartment
  Officials say the death of a child whose skeletal remains were found inside a Houston area apartment along with three surviving siblings who appear to have been abandoned has been ruled a homicide
• Civil rights pioneer seeks expungement of '55 arrest record
  An 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 wants to end the case once and for all
• Coroner IDs suspect in Boise mall shooting that killed 2
  Authorities have identified the suspect in a Boise, Idaho mall shooting as 27-year-old Jacob Bergquist
• DNA brings pain, closure to family of John Wayne Gacy victim
  Siblings of the man identified as a victim of the notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy say their family is shocked but grateful to police who used DNA to confirm his fate
• Illinois police officer is shot and killed near St. Louis
  Authorities say a police officer was shot to death by a man at a gas station in an Illinois suburb of St. Louis
• Feds: Ohio stock trader fleeced Twitter users in pump-&-dump
  An Ohio trader in penny stocks has been arrested on charges alleging he repeatedly lied to over 70,000 Twitter followers to earn over $1 million illegally in what authorities are calling a new twist on an old stock manipulation game