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Schiavo receives communion, last rites
Mar 27 2005 10:44PM (CT)
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) - Their hopes fading and legal options exhausted, Terri Schiavo's parents appeared quietly resigned Sunday to watching her die but could claim one Easter victory: The severely brain-damaged woman received a drop of communion wine on her tongue _ her only sustenance in nine days _ after her husband allowed her to receive the sacrament.
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Churchgoers remember Texas blast victims
Mar 27 2005 9:02PM (CT)
TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) - Churchgoers at Easter Sunday services were urged to support friends and neighbors who are grieving for loved ones lost in last week's deadly explosion at a BP oil refinery.
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Teacher killed in Minn. shootings praised
Mar 27 2005 8:37PM (CT)
BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) - English teacher Neva Rogers finally had found a place where she felt needed, where she could give opportunities to poverty-stricken children who struggled with teen pregnancies, drugs and alcohol.
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Family acrimony marks long Schiavo case
Mar 27 2005 6:51PM (CT)
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) - So bitter and vindictive is the family feud over whether Terri Schiavo lives or dies that her husband and parents couldn't even agree on what priest should administer last rites or what should happen to her body after death. Once embraced by them, Michael Schiavo hasn't spoken to his in-laws, Bob and Mary Schindler, since 1993.
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Gun scare shuts down part of Cinn. airport
Mar 27 2005 5:28PM (CT)
HEBRON, Ky. (AP) - Part of Cincinnati's main airport was temporarily shut down Sunday after a passenger passed through a security checkpoint with what appeared to be a gun in a carry-on bag, authorities said.
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Mass. priests celebrate Easter Mass
Mar 27 2005 2:09PM (CT)
SUDBURY, Mass. (AP) - Almost a year after the Boston Archdiocese closed or consolidated 80 parishes, priests were sent out to celebrate Easter Mass in one-day-only services for three of the shuttered congregations.
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Hundreds mourn at school shooting funerals
Mar 27 2005 8:37AM (CT)
RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) - With the bang of a drum and a high-pitched wail, the first funerals began for victims of a teenager's shooting rampage on the Red Lake Indian Reservation where 10 people died.
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Mourners fill Fla. church to remember girl
Mar 27 2005 7:19AM (CT)
LECANTO, Fla. (AP) - About 1,000 mourners gathered Saturday to say goodbye to the 9-year-old Florida girl who was abducted from her bed and allegedly slain by a sex offender staying in a nearby home.
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Six killed in plane crash in central Pa.
Mar 27 2005 7:14AM (CT)
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) - A small plane carrying two families to a college lacrosse game crashed Saturday, killing all six people aboard, authorities said. The two families from Rhode Island had been on vacation in Florida and were going to Penn State University to watch pilot Jeffrey Jacober's son play in a lacrosse game, according to a family friend.
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Missing Iowa girl's body identified
Mar 27 2005 7:11AM (CT)
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - The body of a girl found in an abandoned mobile home was identified Saturday as that of a 10-year-old who was abducted, authorities said. Police canceled an Amber Alert for Jetseta Marrie Gage on Friday after finding the body in a rundown mobile home near the small town of Kalona, about 45 miles south of the girl's home in Cedar Rapids.
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Reservation life grinds down Indian youths
Mar 27 2005 4:41AM (CT)
RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) - The obituary in the small town paper was heartbreaking: Chase Albert "Beka" Lussier, born Dec. 23, 1989, died March 21 at Red Lake High School. A freshman who played basketball and loved computer games. Six paragraphs down, beside the photograph of a chubby-cheeked, smiling boy, came this sentence: "He spent his time juggling life between his family and his son."
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