Tuesday, April 21, 2009

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - In stories April 16 and April 17 about slain Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, The Associated Press reported erroneously that tests had confirmed a Marine later suspected in her killing wasn’t the father of Lauterbach’s unborn child.

Lauterbach had told a military prosecutor that Cpl. Cesar Laurean couldn’t be the father based on a recalculated conception date after a medical examination.

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