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once was called crib death.
In brief
Pentagon extends
Marines’ tours
WASHINGTON — The Pen-
tagon has extended the tour of
2,200 Marines in Afghanistan
after insisting for months the
unit would come home on time.
The 24th Marine Expeditionary
Unit, which is doing combat
operations in the volatile south,
will stay an extra 30 days and
come home in early November
rather than October, Marine
Col. David Lapan confirmed
Thursday.
Military leaders as recently as
Wednesday stressed the need
for additional troops in Afghani-
stan. Adm. Mike Mullen, chair-
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
has often praised the work
of the 24th MEU in fighting
Taliban militants in Helmand
Province.
Defense Secretary Robert
Gates, however, has repeatedly
said he did not intend to extend
or replace the U.S. Marines
in Afghanistan, calling their
deployment there an extraor-
dinary, one-time effort to help
tamp down the increasing vio-
lence in the south.
Asked about the possibility of
an extension in early May, Gates
said he would “be loathe to do
that.” He added: “No one has
suggested even the possibility of
extending that rotation.”
DNA testing frees
Texas man
DALLAS — A Texas man
who spent more than 15 years in
prison after being wrongly con-
victed of kidnapping and rob-
bery raised both arms skyward
and collapsed in his mother’s
embrace Thursday after being
told he was a free man.
Patrick Waller’s sobs were
the only sound at a crowded
hearing attended by four other
inmates also exonerated by
DNA testing.
Waller had been behind bars
since 1992 for aggravated rob-
bery and aggravated kidnapping diocese.
stemming from the abduction of
a Dallas couple. He was proved
innocent by DNA testing late
last year. “I feel vindicated,” said Catholic Charities were fired
Waller, 38. “I feel thankful. Most after it was revealed they pro-
of all, I feel blessed.”
Tropical storm
forms in Atlantic
MIAMI — Tropical Storm
Bertha has formed in the Atlan-
tic Ocean off the coast of Africa.
At 9 p.m. MDT Thursday,
Bertha was centered 185 miles
west-southwest of the southern-
most Cape Verde Islands.
The second named storm of
the Atlantic hurricane season
is moving toward the west at
about 14 mph, and forecasters
expect that to continue for the
next two days.
Maximum sustained winds
are near 45 mph. Some gradual
strengthening was forecast dur-
ing the next day or two. It’s still
too early to say if or where Ber-
tha will hit land.
SIDS linked to
brain chemical
WASHINGTON — Scientists
have new evidence that the
brain chemical best known for
regulating mood also plays a
role in the mystifying killer of
seemingly healthy babies —
sudden infant death syndrome.
Autopsied brain tissue from
SIDS babies first raised sus-
picion that an imbalance in
serotonin might be behind what
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with other clues from human
babies.
Bozo the Clown
actor dead at 83
LOS ANGELES — Larry Har-
mon, who turned the character
Bozo the Clown into a show
business staple that delighted
children for more than a half-
century, died Thursday of con-
gestive heart failure. He was 83.
Although not the original
Bozo, Harmon portrayed the
popular clown in countless
appearances and, as an entre-
preneur, he licensed the charac-
ter to others, particularly doz-
ens of television stations around
the country. The stations in turn
hired actors to be their local
Bozos.
“You might say, in a way, I was
cloning BTC (Bozo the Clown)
before anybody else out there
got around to cloning DNA,”
Harmon told the AP in a 1996
interview.
Bishop apologizes
over abortion
Leaders of a Richmond, Va.-
based Catholic charity under
federal investigation are scram-
bling to explain the organiza-
tion’s involvement in helping a
16-year-old illegal immigrant in
its care get an abortion in Janu-
ary.
Richmond Bishop Francis
DiLorenzo this week apologized
for the “monumental tragedy”
and the embarrassment the inci-
dent has caused the diocese and
Catholics across the country.
“The guilt and depression
that many of us experience as a
result of the behavior of a few is
something that we will bear for
a long time to come,” he wrote
in a statement to the Catholic
Virginian, a biweekly newspa-
per that serves the Richmond
DiLorenzo’s comments fol-
lowed reports that four staff
members of Commonwealth
vided the girl with transporta-
tion and signed a consent form
needed for the abortion.
Teen charged with
auctioning vote
MINNEAPOLIS — A college
student claimed it was all a joke
when he put his vote in this
fall’s presidential election up
for sale on the Web auction site
eBay. But prosecutors didn’t see
the humor.
University of Minnesota
student Max P. Sanders, 19, was
charged with a felony Thursday
in Hennepin County District
Court after allegedly asking for
a minimum of $10 in exchange
for voting for the bidder’s pre-
ferred candidate. “Good luck!”
Sanders wrote under the eBay
handle zepdrummer612. “You’re
(sic) country depends on You!”
Sanders was charged with
one count of bribery, treating
and soliciting under an 1893
state law that makes it a crime
to offer to buy or sell a vote.
According to a criminal com-
plaint, the Minnesota Secretary
of State’s Office learned about
the offering on the Web site and
told prosecutors.
Investigators sent a subpoena
to eBay and got information that
led to Sanders.
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Madonna and
A-Rod: How close?
added to the saga when Rodri-
guez’s wife fled from New York
to the Paris home of rocker
But then Us Weekly magazine
reported that Rodriguez, 32, has
been making late-night visits
Aaron Ferguson says in
papers filed in Manhattan’s
state Supreme Court that he
Lenny Kravitz, who denied to the Manhattan apartment of has suffered from anorexia for
NEW YORK — Reports anything improper had hap- Madonna, 49. about six years. He says his
that Yankees superstar Alex pened with the slugger’s wife. supervisor repeatedly exhibited
Rodriguez and Madonna The whole story began last
have become close just as their week amid tabloid stories that
Ray worker claims “hostile behavior” and made
“vile,” discriminatory and hurt-
marriages are disintegrating Madonna, who is married to anorexia bias ful comments.
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