The mother of 17-year-old Brittany Drexel, who disappeared while on spring break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has identified her daughter on grainy hotel surveillance video. In the video, a girl wearing shorts and flip-flops walks through the doors of a hotel.

A high school football player from Pennsylvania was acquitted of murder, and his teammate was acquitted of aggravated assault in the beating death of a Mexican immigrant. Both teens also were acquitted of ethnic intimidation. The jury found Brandon Piekarsky and Derrick Donchak guilty of simple assault.

Investigators have found the vehicle of a University of Georgia professor wanted in the killing of three people.