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WASHINGTON -- The White House and the Pentagon voiced regrets Wednesday for newly published photographs that purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan, with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calling them a violation of America's "core values."

SAN DIEGO — A Marine Corps scout sniper team in Afghanistan posed for a photograph in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS, a military official said Thursday.

OGDEN -- Area families who are stretching their budgets this year have an opportunity to provide themselves with an inexpensive Christmas gift.

For the second year, Help Portrait will offer free professional family portraits to those who attend a photo shoot from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 3 at the Marshall White Center, 222 28th St.

Madison Avenue, take heed: The American Medical Association has weighed in on the controversial and widespread practice of photoshopping models and actresses -- Kate Winslet, Faith Hill and others -- to make them look younger, thinner and/or more voluptuous.

In a vote at its recent annual convention, the nation's largest medical association adopted a new policy to "encourage advertising associations to work with public and private sector organizations" to establish guidelines that would discourage airbrushing or retouching in advertising, "especially those appearing in teen-oriented publications."

LOS ANGELES -- Memories might last a lifetime, but officials at one high school want to make sure some don't.

Students at Big Bear High School have been ordered to return their 2011 yearbooks after a photograph depicting a male student with his hand underneath a female student's clothing at a school dance somehow managed to be published, officials said Thursday.