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Seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes was shot and killed Sunday in Houston while riding in a car with her mom and siblings. The suspect is still at large, and police haven't yet determined a motive.

Brazil's exports to China hit $44.3 billion, an increase of more than 43 percent over 2010. In 2009, China surpassed the U.S. as Brazil's biggest trading partner. For 2011, Brazil logged $256 billion in exports, with a $29.7 billion surplus.

The program says it lost records of volunteers from its early days and now it wants to get back in touch.

A six-year-old girl in Oklahoma didn't ask Santa for Barbies or a Wii game, she asked if he could bring hay for her family's cows. The girl is being raised by grandparents, who have faced tough economic times.

The Ramsey County attorney said the use of deadly force by Officer Jeronimo Yanez in July was not justified.

An extraordinary effort to limit a widespread fish kill comes a week before the centennial celebration of the National Park Service.

Heather Menzies-Urich was 15 when she was cast to play Louisa von Trapp, one of the seven singing von Trapp children. She had been recently diagnosed with cancer, according to her son Ryan Urich.

The economy keeps adding jobs at a steady pace, including 223,000 in June, but the Labor Department report for last month shows more people are also leaving the labor force and wages are not rising.

The storm caused devastating flooding and landslides on the tiny island earlier this week, but poses less of a threat to Florida, according to National Weather Service forecasts.

Both the Dow Jones index and the S&P 500 saw gains of nearly 4 percent; the Nasdaq index rose even higher.