At last, it is written.

Four years after he began his project to write out every word of the Bible, Phillip Patterson penned the very last lines Saturday at an upstate New York church.

"Every single curly-q, every single loop, it was all worth it," said Patterson, 63, moments after inking the final two verses of the King James Bible. "I'm really going to miss this writing."

It took Patterson just a few minutes to copy the final lines of the Book of Revelation before a crowd of about 125 people at St. Peter's Presbyterian Church in Spencertown. He ended the ceremony by saying "Amen."

Patterson, of Philmont, began copying the complete King James Bible in his neat, looping handwriting in 2009. He spent two years copying the first five books of the Bible as a prototype before starting fresh. He said he'll spend about another year working on the book's binding and covers before donating the fully completed Bible -- more than 2,400 pages -- to St. Peter's as a gift.

For now, he said, he'll just have to get used to his new life without holding a Pigma Micron pen every day.

"I'm going to miss the writing, that's what I'm going to miss," he said. "My fingers are fine, no callouses."

Patterson has said he started the project to learn about the Bible, not as a spiritual quest. But he said the project has helped him become more patient, confident and loving.

The project was slowed by his health problems, including AIDS and anemia. The retired interior designer relies on two canes and leans on walls and furniture to get around his apartment near the Massachusetts border.

Paterson worked as much as 14 hours a day on his project.

Authorities on Saturday arrested the 12-year-old brother of an 8-year-old girl who was mysteriously stabbed at her home in a quiet Northern California community last month.

Calaveras County Sheriff Gary Kuntz told reporters at a news conference that the boy will be charged with homicide.

The April 27 attack shook the tightknit Valley Springs community of about 7,400 people and set off a massive manhunt. The boy had told police that he encountered an intruder in the home and described the man as being tall with long gray hair.

Investigators did a door-to-door sweep of houses, storage sheds and horse stables scattered across oak-studded hills. Divers also searched two nearby reservoirs in search of clues.

As part of the investigation, authorities seized several knives from the home Leila shared with her father, stepmother and siblings to determine if one could have inflicted the fatal wounds.

A neighbor who told detectives she saw a man flee the Fowler home later recanted the story and was discredited by police.

Several days after the killing, hundreds of people gathered at Jenny Lind Elementary School where Leila was a popular 3rd grader.

Her mother, Krystal Walters, tearfully thanked the crowd for the support. "It will never be forgotten," she said.

At last, it is written.

Four years after he began his project to write out every word of the Bible, Phillip Patterson penned the very last lines Saturday at an upstate New York church.

"Every single curly-q, every single loop, it was all worth it," said Patterson, 63, moments after inking the final two verses of the King James Bible. "I'm really going to miss this writing."

It took Patterson just a few minutes to copy the final lines of the Book of Revelation before a crowd of about 125 people at St. Peter's Presbyterian Church in Spencertown. He ended the ceremony by saying "Amen."

Patterson, of Philmont, began copying the complete King James Bible in his neat, looping handwriting in 2009. He spent two years copying the first five books of the Bible as a prototype before starting fresh. He said he'll spend about another year working on the book's binding and covers before donating the fully completed Bible — more than 2,400 pages — to St. Peter's as a gift.

For now, he said, he'll just have to get used to his new life without holding a Pigma Micron pen every day.

"I'm going to miss the writing, that's what I'm going to miss," he said. "My fingers are fine, no callouses."

Patterson has said he started the project to learn about the Bible, not as a spiritual quest. But he said the project has helped him become more patient, confident and loving.

The project was slowed by his health problems, including AIDS and anemia. The retired interior designer relies on two canes and leans on walls and furniture to get around his apartment near the Massachusetts border.

Paterson worked as much as 14 hours a day on his project.

Authorities on Saturday arrested the 12-year-old brother of an 8-year-old girl who was mysteriously stabbed at her home in a quiet Northern California community last month.

Calaveras County Sheriff Gary Kuntz told reporters at a news conference that the boy will be charged with homicide.

The April 27 attack shook the tightknit Valley Springs community of about 7,400 people and set off a massive manhunt. The boy had told police that he encountered an intruder in the home and described the man as being tall with long gray hair.

Investigators did a door-to-door sweep of houses, storage sheds and horse stables scattered across oak-studded hills. Divers also searched two nearby reservoirs in search of clues.

As part of the investigation, authorities seized several knives from the home Leila shared with her father, stepmother and siblings to determine if one could have inflicted the fatal wounds.

A neighbor who told detectives she saw a man flee the Fowler home later recanted the story and was discredited by police.

Several days after the killing, hundreds of people gathered at Jenny Lind Elementary School where Leila was a popular 3rd grader.

Her mother, Krystal Walters, tearfully thanked the crowd for the support. "It will never be forgotten," she said.

After Republicans used Senate rules to block two nominees in committee despite majority support, Democrats are planning to force committee votes without Republican consent.    

The justice says her predecessors were too sweeping in their landmark 1973 abortion ruling.

The election was marred by violence Saturday.

Bryce A. Reed, arrested on charges that he had pipe bomb components, had been a public face of mourning in West, Tex. after a plant exploded.    

Crews in eastern Kansas used boats and sonar equipment Saturday as the search continued for an 18-month-old girl presumed dead after the bodies of her mother and two men were found at a farm home earlier in the week.

Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Richards said investigators looking for the body of Lana Leigh Bailey were scouring ponds and other waterways in the area near the farm outside Ottawa.

"We haven't found her, and we're going to continue ... until we do," Richards said during a Saturday afternoon news conference.

Kyle Flack, a 27-year-old convicted felon, was charged Friday with capital murder in the deaths of Lana Bailey, her 21-year-old mother, Kaylie Bailey, and 30-year-old Andrew Stout. Flack was also charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder in their deaths as well as the death of 31-year-old Steven White.

Franklin County Attorney Stephen Hunting said Friday that a firearm was used against all the victims, but didn't elaborate on whether that meant they all were fatally shot. Authorities have not commented on a motive.

The investigation, which has involved up to about 150 people, has included searching the farm and other rural areas in the 50-mile stretch between Ottawa and Emporia, where Kaylie Bailey's car was found Tuesday. Investigators have also been conducting interviews in Emporia and in the Kansas City area, Richards said.

He said there will be no search Sunday. And when it resumes Monday, it will be down to about 50 officers because the Kansas Major Squad, a collection of investigators from several area agencies, was being disbanded Saturday.

Richards said the extensive investigation has taken a toll and that members of the investigative team have required medical attention after searching in difficult areas. Others have sought counsel from a chaplain.

"It's a horrific crime that's occurred, but it's compounded by the fact that we have an 18-month-old that is missing and is presumed dead, and ... the public doesn't like it," Richards said. "But the men and women investigating this are human beings as well, and it does take an emotional toll on everyone."

Two astronauts spent 5 ½ hours outside the space station. They were unable to locate the source of the leak, but did install a new pump, which appeared to solve the problem.    

The prospect of immigration overhaul has spurred energetic lobbying from many foreign nations seeking a little something extra, whether additional work permits or visa-free tourist visits.    

A standoff with an armed man who police said took multiple hostages entered its second day Saturday as authorities worked to negotiate his surrender and his captives' release.

The man, whose identity has not been released, remained holed-up in a two-story red brick house in South Trenton more than 25 hours after the standoff began Friday afternoon, authorities said.

Trenton police Lt. Stephen Varn declined to give any details on the number of people being held, their ages or relationship to the armed man.

State police Lt. Stephen Jones called the standoff an "ongoing, tense situation" and said police were working to "bring this to a peaceful end."

But family members of a woman they said was among the hostages grew angry as the standoff continued. Late Saturday afternoon, some of them went under police tape and briefly confronted officers about the situation.

"Do something! Do something!" screamed a man who said he was the woman's nephew. "Make something happen!"

Police were called to the home before 3 p.m. Friday on reports that a man had barricaded himself inside.

Authorities said police entered the home and found the man brandishing a gun. Police retreated safely, and a SWAT team was called in. Police continued to negotiate with the man Saturday morning, Varn said, and police had a robot on scene ready to enter the home.

State Police Sgt. Adam Grossman said an arson bomb unit was also on the scene. Police declined to say whether the man was making any demands.

Homes on the surrounding block have been evacuated as a precaution, and police tape cordoned off the street in front of the house and nearby. An ambulance was parked near the home but left the scene earlier Saturday.

Lt. Mark Kieffer told The Times of Trenton that police had not been called to the home before.

The Bloomberg terminal privacy breach puts the firm in an awkward situation: Explaining itself to Wall Street clients.

An American diplomat said that his Egyptian counterparts told him that the United States Embassy was targeted.    

Olympic gold medal-winning sailor Andrew "Bart" Simpson's death during an America's Cup training run on San Francisco Bay last week was the latest and most glaring setback to befall an event that had already encountered its share of rough waters.

Now, questions are being raised about the safety of the $10 million high-tech boats that can obtain speeds of 45 mph and how Simpson's death will affect his team, Artemis Racing, and the America's Cup itself. It's unclear if Artemis will compete, as planned, now that one of its two boats has been destroyed.

From the moment billionaire Larry Ellison proposed holding the event in San Francisco after winning the trophy in 2010, America's Cup organizers ran into vocal political opposition, lawsuits and community protests over the public cost of the event to the city's treasury and environment.

"This is not the first time a bunch of starry eyed politicians have been bamboozled by a tycoon," said former city supervisor Aaron Peskin, who settled his lawsuit last year that sought to stop the event. "Usually when things get hyped that much they turn out to be too good to be true. This was too good to be true."

Up to a dozen sailing teams were expected to set up operations for months around the bay, injecting a significant boost to the local economy, but only three competitors showed up to take on the defending cup champions Oracle racing.

An accidental fire started by a welder working on America's Cup improvement caused $2.4 million in damages to a city pier in June 2012 and Team Oracle's boat capsized in October and was swept four miles out to sea where it was badly damaged by the churning waters.

Critics complain that America's Cup organizers promised too much to win the backing of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and are now delivering too little. They point to the ratcheting down of the economic forecast as proof.

When first proposed, city officials were told the event would mean 8,800 new jobs and $1.4 billion to the local economy. That has been recently revised to $780 million and 5,500 jobs. A private fundraising effort has fallen behind its initial target of raising $32 million to offset the city's expense for hosting the event. Civic leaders were promised the America's Cup wouldn't cost the city.

"I won't kid anyone that bringing a large event to San Francisco isn't without its challenges," chief event organizer Stephen Barclay said Friday at a news conference.

In an interview Saturday morning, Barclay noted that fundraisers have amassed $14 million in donations and pledges and the $14 million in tax revenue city official expect the event to generate will offset any costs to San Francisco. Barclay said that the city will still end up paying nothing while still benefiting financially from a major sporting event with 50 racing days.

"The majority of people understand that's why the city pursued the America's Cup," Barclay said.

Barclay said that Simpson's death has stunned the tight-knit sailing community.

Nonetheless, he said he has "every expectation" that the America's Cup will take place as scheduled. But Barclay said he won't commit formally to that position until an internal probe of the fatal crash is completed.

Decisions on whether to make safety changes to the boats or the race course along San Francisco's busy waterfront will also await the conclusion of the examination, which is being led by Regatta director Iain Murray, Barclay said. Murray is expected to announce the probable cause of the accident early next week.

Artemis chairman Torbjorn Tornqvist said his team will also conduct a thorough review of the accident.

"(We) will be looking at how the risks inherent to such competitive sailing can be limited in the future for the safety of the team and all competitors in the sailing community," he said.

Barclay conceded that organizers were disappointed that only three teams materialized to challenge Oracle Racing, but cited the bad economy as a reason some potential challengers stayed away.

He said that the run-up to the London Olympics last year endured massive amounts of criticism and concerns. But he said once the games started, the focus shifted almost entirely to the sporting events and the games were ultimately deemed a success.

"I have no doubt that will also be the case with the America's Cup, too," Barclay said. "A light switch will flip."

The search for a treasure hunter who found sunken gold and then stiffed his partners by vanishing with the loot could be coming to a highway near you.

The U.S. Marshals Service began using alerts on digital billboards in Ohio and Florida late last month to locate fugitive treasure hunter Tommy Thompson, who remains wanted after failing to appear in an Ohio court last year following his 1987 discovery of millions of dollars in gold bars and coins from the SS Central America, a 280-foot ship that sank during a hurricane off the North Carolina coast in 1857.

"They've generated some tips, but obviously not as many as we'd like to see," Brad Fleming, a deputy U.S. marshal in Columbus, told FoxNews.com of the 10 billboards. "We haven't received the right tip yet, so to speak."

The billboard notices also include an image of Thompson's assistant, Alison Antekeier, 45, whose arrest was ordered by U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus Jr. in August along with Thompson after they failed to appear in court in Columbus.

Thompson, 60, who sold bars and coins salvaged from the wreck to a California mint for $52 million, grew up in central Ohio and spent a large portion of his adult life in Columbus. Antekeier also lived in Columbus until she moved with Thompson to Vero Beach, Fla., where the couple had been living as recently as last year, Fleming said.

Exactly how much gold recovered from the sunken ship's gold remains unclear, although investors who ponied up for Thompson's search claim they are due millions. His team of nine technicians is seeking more than $2 million and have been fighting for their cut in court for years.

"There is very little reason to doubt that these plaintiffs will prevail and in an amount in excess of $2 million," Michael Szolosi, an attorney for the technicians, told FoxNews.com in August. "And all they see from the defendants is delay, delay, delay."

Szolosi said Thompson has never shown up in court and said he has never laid eyes on him. Thompson's former attorney, Avonte Campinha-Bacote, told FoxNews.com last year that his client was "at sea."

Since that time, Campinha-Bacote's firm has withdrawn as Thompson's counsel due to an inability to communicate with him.

Fleming, meanwhile, said authorities hope the billboard notices, which appear for seconds between paid advertisements, will lead to an increase in tips connected to the pair.

Sargus last year temporarily blocked the sale or transfer of 500 restrike gold coins made from some of the discovered gold. Those coins were included in part of a deal in 2000 to sell rights to the remaining treasure to the California Gold Marketing Group for $52 million, leaving about $30 million after the cost of recovery efforts. The judge also ordered Thompson to disclose the location of those coins, as well as funds from a trust.

"We have reason to believe that the 500 coins still exist somewhere and that's why it's so important for [Thompson] to come to court as he's been ordered and to answer what the plaintiffs and the judge want answered," Szolosi said of the 2.5-ounce coins. "We want those assets held."

Thompson has faced several additional legal battles over claims to the gold by insurance companies, rival salvagers regarding returns that were expected by a group of 161 investors who paid $12.7 million in the mid-1980s to find the historic wreck, including The Dispatch Printing Co., which publishes The Columbus Dispatch.

In 1998, after years of litigation, Thompson and his companies were rewarded 92 percent of the recovered gold, with the remainder going to insurance companies that paid claims after the steamship sank, according to the Dispatch.

Eight years later, led by Michael Williamson of Seattle, the team of nine technicians sued in federal court to seek the millions they claim is due to them for locating the most famous shipwreck of its time. Those technicians and investors who funded Thompson's dream have yet to see any profits from the high-tech recovery mission and the "bizarre" legal battle that has followed, Szolosi said.

The SS Central America, which was dubbed in maritime lore as the "Ship of Gold," sank during a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean in 1857, taking 425 souls and up to 21 tons of gold to the ocean floor some 8,000 feet deep. The gold had been shipped from San Francisco down to the west coast of Panama, then sent by rail to the Central American nation's east coast and finally loaded onto the steamship bound for New York.

The police said that a man had killed at least one person inside a home and was holding children hostage.    

Emergency personnel is working a water main break in Cobb County, just off Cobb Parkway as several thousands of water are gushing per minute.

Since becoming the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, Representative Maxine Waters has softened her tone and vowed to protect bankers’ interests.    

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office is scrutinizing the cases of Louis Scarcella, a former star detective, after new revelations about disputed confessions and tactics in his record.