(AP) — Police in the nation’s capital say they have found the body of a man who appears to have committed suicide in a park where officers were searching for a missing 8-year-old girl.

Police Chief Cathy Lanier did not immediately identify the man, whose body was found Monday. She said police would likely confirm his identity later Monday.

Eight-year-old Relisha Rudd was last seen in the company of Kahlil Tatum, a janitor at the homeless shelter where she lived with her mother and brothers. The girl was last seen on March 1.

After she was reported missing, police in neighboring Prince George’s County, Md., found the body of Tatum’s wife in a motel room.

Police have been searching the park in northeast Washington since last week.

(AP) — Authorities say a magnitude-5.1 earthquake has shaken the Los Angeles area.

The U.S. Geological Survey originally estimated the quake to be a magnitude-5.3. It said the Friday quake struck at about 9:11 p.m. and was centered near Brea in Orange County — about 20 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

About an hour earlier, a 3.6 quake hit nearby in the city of La Habra.

There were no immediate reports of damage.

(AP) — A Pennsylvania prosecutor says a 5-year-old boy who allegedly started a fire that claimed the life of a young girl near Pittsburgh cannot be charged with a crime because of his age.

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. alleged Thursday that the 2-year-old girl’s cousin intentionally started the March 23 fire in McKeesport.

A spokesman said in a statement Friday that any child younger than 7 suspected of criminal activity is treated as a dependency case to decide if a crime was the result of abuse or neglect.

Zappala said Thursday that the boy is being evaluated by the Office of Children, Youth and Families, which may start court proceedings to remove him from his family because he has a history of starting fires.

What’s good for the heart? Marriage, researchers say.

A study of more than 3.5 million Americans finds that married people are less likely than singles, divorced or widowed folks to suffer any type of heart or blood vessel problem.

This was true at any age, for women as well as for men, and regardless of other heart disease risk factors they had such as high cholesterol or diabetes.

The study by researchers at New York University involved people who sought screening tests for cancer or other conditions from a private company offering them in community settings around the country.

Married people had a 5 percent lower risk of any cardiovascular disease compared to singles. Widowed people had a 3 percent greater risk and divorced people, a 5 percent greater risk.

(AP) — Washington state authorities say the number of mudslide fatalities will go up substantially within the next two days.

Sixteen bodies have been recovered, but officials say at least nine more had been found as of Wednesday night.

Snohomish County District 21 Fire Chief Travis Hots said Thursday that officials are not going to count additional recovered victims until the medical examiner’s office has caught up with the recovery effort.

He says the number of fatalities is expected to increase substantially within the next 24-48 hours, as the medical examiner catches up.

The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office so far has identified one victim, 45-year-old Christina Jefferds.

That are 90 people confirmed missing from the Saturday morning mudslide 55 miles northeast of Seattle.

(AP) — An expert sea pilot has testified before a federal agency that he is concerned that cruise operators, like airline pilots, may rely too much on electronics to navigate massive ships, losing the knowledge and ability to manually operate a vessel during a power failure.

Capt. Jorge Viso with the Tampa Bay Pilots testified Wednesday before the National Transportation Safety Board. The agency is holding a two-day safety hearing after several high-profile cruise mishaps that left thousands of passengers stranded for days in squalid conditions.

Viso says he fears cruise ship captains handling high-tech vessels with state-of-the-art navigation equipment are not as adept at manually handling the massive ships as they should be. He also says that while cruise ships are continuously getting larger, port infrastructure is not keeping up.

(AP) — A new report suggests hospital infections are not as common as previously thought — but still 1 in 25 patients are infected.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the estimates Wednesday. It’s considered the best data yet on infections patients pick up in the hospital.

The results are based on a 2011 survey of 183 hospitals in 10 states.

Four percent of patients had one or more infections. That’s about 648,000 patients annually.

The previous estimate was much higher, but the CDC said it’s hard to compare the new and old figures because they were calculated differently.

Health officials have been pushing hospitals to cut infections by improving care and cleanliness.

(AP) — The Navy says a sailor slain in a shootout this week at a Virginia base was killed when he jumped between a colleague and a civilian gunman.

The Navy says Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Mark Mayo was shot and killed during the gunfight Monday night at Naval Station Norfolk.

The Navy identified Mayo on Wednesday. He was 24 and from Hagerstown, Maryland.

The civilian had taken the weapon from a petty officer aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan.

The Navy says the civilian was later killed by another sailor following a gunfight. The gunman’s name wasn’t released.

(AP) — The Supreme Court seems divided over whether employers’ religious beliefs can free them from a part of the new health care law that requires that they provide coverage of birth control for employees at no extra charge.

The case argued Tuesday involves family-owned companies that provide health insurance to their employees, but object to covering certain methods of birth control that they say can work after conception, in violation of their religious beliefs.

The Obama administration and its supporters say a Supreme Court ruling in favor of the businesses also could undermine laws governing immunizations, Social Security taxes and minimum wages.

(AP) — Witnesses and family members say a Northern California teen pushed his girlfriend away from the path of an oncoming train before he was struck and killed.

The girlfriend, 16-year-old Mickayla Friend, was still grazed and critically injured, though her mother, Sandy, said at a vigil Sunday that she was breathing on her own and walking.

Mickayla and her boyfriend, 16-year-old Mateus Moore, were headed to a store before going to a school dance Friday night in Marysville when they were struck by the Union Pacific freight train.

Sandy Friend said Mickayla told her Mateus pushed her as hard as he could. Witnesses to the train strike said Mateus’ actions prevented Mickayla from being run over as well.

Police are looking into whether the teens were distracted.