Mount Vernon Police Lt. Chris Cammock told ABC News that 17-year-old Kalob Tatum entered a McDonald’s with his backpack and violin after school. When he went up to the counter to order a burger, he turned around, and his 100-year-old Czechoslovakian copy of a Stradivarius violin was missing.

“When I saw the violin gone, my heart just dropped,” Tatum told ABC affiliate KOMO News. “I had this feeling that something terrible just happened.”

Tatum has been playing the violin since kindergarten, according to Lt. Cammock. The teen earned a scholarship to perform in New York this summer.

“I got a scholarship to a two-week camp and… I do not have a violin and I don’t have the money to get a new one right now,” Tatum told KOMO.

Officers searched for the violin immediately following the theft.

“On the security video that’s inside the McChevron (McDonald’s there is attached to a Chevron gas station), it showed a young girl who picked up the violin and left the restaurant with her mother,” Cammock said. “By depiction, it looks like the mother would have been aware that her daughter was taking it.”

Officers then took the footage obtained from the store and circulated the girl’s picture.

On Thursday, Cammock says an officer on patrol spotted the mother and daughter walking near a school.

“The officer stopped her, had a conversation with her and asked for the violin,” Cammock said. “The violin was then returned to the victim.”

The mother, who was not identified, faces possible charges of theft, Cammock says.

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Called Rock ‘n Royalty: Billboard’s All-Stars, the show will be anchored by Barbara Walters, and feature the best and most memorable moments from ABC interviews conducted throughout the years with a variety of pop and country superstars.

Among the moments featured on show are Katie Couric‘s 2012 interview with Taylor Swift to announce her RED tour, and a new interview with Lady Antebellum, conducted by ABC’s Juju Chang.

Interviews with Madonna, Cher, Justin Timberlake, Mariah Carey and Beyoncé are also featured.  Comedian Tracy Morgan, who hosts this Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards also sat down for a new chat.

The two-hour special airs Saturday night at 9 p.m. ET.

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The Crazy Ones is set in Chicago, and is about a father and daughter, played by Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar, who both work in advertising.  In the pilot, they try to persuade Kelly to sing a McDonald’s commercial, but she tells them she wants to change her image and “sing about sex.”

“They said I wouldn’t have to act, ’cause I suck at acting,” says Kelly in the preview.  “They said, ‘Well, you’re playing yourself.’ But it’s not myself!”

Kelly says she “lost” it during a scene where Robin Williams and another cast member try to come up with ways that Kelly can sing about sex, and still sing about McDonald’s.  Next, we see her in the studio singing a song called “It Ain’t the Meat It’s the Motion” — which is a real song, by the way — and simulating being in the throes of sexual passion.

The show’s executive producers say that Kelly was “amazing” in the episode, adding, “She rocked it!”

The Crazy Ones will air on Thursdays this fall at 9 p.m.

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Look for Wy to perform her cover of Foreigner‘s “I Want to Know What Love Is.”  PSY will be there to sing his latest hit, “Gentleman,” and Pitbull will perform his new single, “Hands Up.”

The Dancing with the Stars finale airs Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.

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Amtrak train service between New York and Boston was suspended indefinitely, as was service on the Metro-North Railroad’s New Haven commuter line in Connecticut, amid an investigation, and damage to the Metro-North trains and tracks.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy estimated normal service would not resume until at least Monday.

“These tracks have been torn up,” he told reporters. “There’s been extensive damage.”

The National Transportation Safety Board was sending a team to investigate the crash, and was to be the lead agency in the investigation.

Local police initially put the number of injured between 20 and 25, but several hours later Malloy said 60 people had been taken to hospitals. Five of those 60 had critical injuries, he said, including one person who was considered “very critical.”

The accident occurred just east of the Fairfield metro station at approximately 6:10 p.m., when trains heading in opposite directions between New Haven, Conn., and New York’s Grand Central Terminal collided, officials said. The collision occurred after the New York-bound train derailed, knocking cars from the second train off the tracks.

Rob Oliver, a passenger on board the train that was struck, said he heard “a tremendous amount of metal and just an extremely loud sound.”

“We suddenly were screeching to a stop, but you knew it wasn’t a screech-normal stop … because there was just an awful burning smell and the cabin was filling with smoke,” he said.

He saw people being removed on stretchers with apparent neck or back injuries.

“I know some people breathed in some smoke, including myself, and I’m sure there’s people who have those sorts of [smoke] injuries,” he said. “Other people got injured coming off the train, because it’s a big jump down to the tracks and people were scrambling to get off the tracks as quickly as possible.”

Multiple reports of injuries initially prompted officials to scramble ambulances from all over the region to the site, police said.

The train cars involved were M8s, which were fairly new to the New Haven line.  This was the first serious accident involving the new cars, considered state-of-the-art.

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The Crazy Ones is set in Chicago, and is about a father and daughter, played by Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar, who both work in advertising.  In the pilot, they try to persuade Kelly to sing a McDonald’s commercial, but she tells them she wants to change her image and “sing about sex.”

“They said I wouldn’t have to act, ’cause I suck at acting,” says Kelly in the preview.  “They said, ‘Well, you’re playing yourself.’ But it’s not myself!”

Kelly says she “lost” it during a scene where Robin Williams and another cast member try to come up with ways that Kelly can sing about sex, and still sing about McDonald’s.  Next, we see her in the studio singing a song called “It Ain’t the Meat It’s the Motion” — which is a real song, by the way — and simulating being in the throes of sexual passion.

The show’s executive producers say that Kelly was “amazing” in the episode, adding, “She rocked it!”

The Crazy Ones will air on Thursdays this fall at 9 p.m.

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Autumn Klein, 41, collapsed at her home in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood and later died on April 20 at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, where she was chief of the division of women’s neurology and an assistant professor of neurology, obstetrics and gynecology.

Her husband, Dr. Robert Ferrante, 64, is a professor of neurological surgery at University of Pittsburgh. The couple has a 6-year-old daughter named Cianna.

“There’s no question he’s a person of interest and that’s really all I can go into now,” William Difenderfer, Ferrante’s attorney, told ABCNews.

“He’s under investigation, as any case like this would be, and that’s about all we know from the standpoint of the government and he has retained me and we have some experts on board too,” Difenderfer said. “We’re looking into things as well.”

He “adamantly” denied that Ferrante was responsible for or in any way was involved in his wife’s death.

“We’re going to anxiously defend the case at this point,” he said. “I don’t want to even get in on a debate with this case now until we see what the commonwealth does.”

Difenderfer said he was not aware of police talking to his client recently.

When asked about reports that Ferrante may have purchased cyanide with a university credit card, Difenderfer said, “I can’t confirm or deny that. I don’t know.”

A source briefed on the case told ABC News that investigators believe Ferrante ordered cyanide prior to his wife’s death. Detectives have not questioned the doctor about that, but are aware that his attorney has told others that the chemical was used in Ferrante’s research.

Ferrante is currently the only person under suspicion in connection with the death of his wife.

“No one else is being looked at,” the source said, insisting that that could still change if new leads are developed.

Pittsburgh police again declined comment when contacted by ABC News on Friday.

Authorities have said that Klein’s death is being investigated as a possible homicide and a possible suicide.

The FBI is working to assist the Pittsburgh police in the investigation. Earlier this month, police executed a search warrant to search the couple’s home.

Investigators removed three vacuum cleaners, a computer tower, and towed the couple’s cars.

Warrants were executed for “PITT and/or UPMC,” where Ferrante and Klein worked, respectively, according to authorities.

Veteran forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht told ABC News recently that he has been retained to consult in the investigation of Klein’s death, but did not say who hired him.

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“I would like to state that I barely knew the Tsarnaev family, and only met them for the first time after we moved to the U.S.,” 35-year-old Musa Khadjimuradov said in a letter handed to media outlets. “During the very few encounters, which were initiated by Tsarnaev, we have never discussed political or religious issues, so I could never guess what ideas were in their minds.”

“Should I have any suspicions I would do my duty to prevent what happened at the Boston marathon,” he added.

Khadjimuradov told Voice of America Thursday he met with Tamerlan Tsarnaev less than a month before the bombing. He said he has been repeatedly interviewed by the FBI and agents searched his Manchester home and took DNA and fingerprint samples Tuesday.

Tamerlan and his younger brother Dzhokhar are accused of setting off a pair of bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon April 15, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others. Tamerlan was killed in a firefight with police, but Dzhokhar survived and was later captured.

A neighbor of Khadjimuradov’s, Troy Boudreau, said he noticed sedans with tinted windows and Massachusetts license plates near his home two weeks ago and finally asked one of the occupants for identification.

“They showed me their FBI badge,” said Boudreau, 36. “I asked them why they were there and they would only say, ‘it’s a private matter.’”

Days later, Boudreau saw roughly a dozen investigators go into Khadjimuradov’s home. He said for most of the day crime scene technicians and FBI agents came in and out of the apartment carrying electronic equipment. “They were moving furniture in, moving furniture out. They didn’t leave until after 10 pm.”

Boudrea said it was “unsettling” to think Tsarnaev had walked past his door to visit his neighbor.

In the VOA report, Khadjimuradov said he moved to the U.S. from Chechnya in 2004 and met Tamerlan at a gathering for Chechens in Boston in 2006.

Khadjimuradov told VOA he felt like he was being treated like a suspect by the federal agents, but said they told him not to worry. In the new letter, which is dated May 16, he said he understands why they were focusing on him.

“… I fully cooperate with the federal investigators, and I understand that these guys need to do everything they can to solve this case, so they can prevent anything like this horror from happening again in the future…” he says.

Khadjimuradov said in the letter he and his family are exhausted from stress and asked for privacy.

“I am sincere in saying that America has become a new, beloved home for me and my family, and we appreciate the freedom and peace this country gives us,” the letter says.

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Look for Wy to perform her cover of Foreigner‘s “I Want to Know What Love Is.”  PSY will be there to sing his latest hit, “Gentleman,” and Pitbull will perform his new single, “Hands Up.”

The Dancing with the Stars finale airs Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.

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Mark Owen, the pseudonymous author of No Easy Day, which detailed the bin Laden mission, told ABC News he was approached by a friend who was setting up the auction and volunteered to part with the combat knife he’s carried with him on missions for over eight years.

“If there was something I could do, I wanted to be involved,” the former SEAL Team Six member said.

The auction in all raised more than $75,000 for several special operations charities, but the proceeds from the knife sale will specifically go the family of Brett “Shady” Shadle, according to Matthew Griffin, a former Army Ranger who helped organized the event. Shadle, who served in SEAL Team Six with Owen, was killed in late March in a training accident in Arizona.

Owen’s knife, a folding Emerson knife that Owen said was his secondary blade, was one of several items in the charity put on by The Macalan Group along with Combat Flip Flops and Intelligent Waves IW simultaneously online and at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference and Exhibition (SOFIC) hosted this week in Tampa, Fla. The auction began May 1, exactly two years after President Obama announced the death of the al Qaeda leader.

Griffin, the co-founder of Combat Flip Flops, told ABC News that when the bids for the knife jumped in the last minutes of the auction, the audience at SOFIC was ecstatic.

“People were cheering, folks were in tears,” he said.

Griffin said he and the other organizers threw the auction together in just a couple weeks and sought out people like Owen willing to donate items. Since there was no overhead, Griffin said 100 percent of the proceeds will go to the special operations charities.

The winning bidder for the knife has not been identified, but will also be presented with a letter of certification from Owen.

Click the links below to find out more about the organizations Griffin said were supported in the auction:

• The Green Beret Foundation
• The Lead the Way Fund
• The Tommy V Foundation
• The Station Foundation
• The Team 5 Medical Foundation

To learn more about Combat Flip Flops and its work in Afghanistan, click here.

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