>Suspect in Yale killing to plead guilty, attorney says

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A lab technician charged in the strangling of a Yale graduate student less than a week before she was to be married plans to plead guilty Thursday, his attorney said.

Raymond Clark III will plead guilty at a court in New Haven, Connecticut, as part of a plea bargain, according to public defender Joseph Lopez.

Lopez would not divulge the details of the agreement.

The 26-year-old had pleaded not guilty in January 2010.

He is accused in the killing of Annie Le, 24, who was pursuing a doctorate in pharmacology at Yale when she went missing on September 8, 2009.

Le’s body was discovered inside a wall of a Yale lab building four days later after an extensive search by the FBI and police.

She had planned to marry Columbia graduate student Jonathan Widawsky on the day her body was found.

Clark was not a Yale student, but had worked as a lab technician at the university since 2004, after graduating from high school. He lived with his girlfriend, who also is a Yale lab technician, according to police.

A Yale faculty member described Clark’s job as maintaining colonies for animals used in research.

A motive in Le’s killing was unclear, but police said they were treating the case as workplace violence.

Calls to the New Haven district attorney’s office and Yale University seeking comment were not immediately returned.

>Lindsay Lohan gets extension — next date, March 25

>Lindsay Lohan did not strike a deal with prosecutors who are preparing a case against her for felony grand theft of a designer diamond necklace, but a Los Angeles judge gave the actress more time to decide her plea, setting an interim court date of March 25. Prosecutors and Lohan’s lawyer can continue to work on a plea bargain in the meantime, but Lohan will need to be in court on March 25 if she intends to plead guilty or no contest and accept the parameters of the court’s offer. If she decides to plead not guilty, an April 22 court date has already been set that will hear the felony grand theft case, as well as charges that Lohan has violated conditions of her probation.

Lohan has denied stealing the necklace from a Venice, Calif., jewelry store. The court expects Lohan to inform it of her intentions by March 23.