Southern Cal wins Class A football title

By Courier Lee News Service

CEDAR FALLS --- Newman Catholic fell to Southern Cal 28-27 in overtime of today's Class A state title matchup at the UNI-Dome.

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Southern Cal wins Class A champsionship

CEDAR FALLS --- Mason City Newman Catholic fell to Southern Cal 28-27 in overtime of Friday's Class A state title matchup at the UNI dome in Cedar Falls.

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Teen pleads guilty in violent Border Patrol murder

By ELLIOT SPAGAT

A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in the mountains east of San Diego.

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Fate of black teacher in Mo. case rests with jury

By JIM SALTER

A jury is deliberating the fate of a black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers in Missouri

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Calif. launches probe into scam targeting churches

By ROBERT JABLON

California is investigating several companies suspected of bilking churches nationwide of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulent computer leasing schemes, authorities said Friday.

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UN committee targets Iran's rights violations

By EDITH M. LEDERER

A key U.N. committee approved a resolution Friday urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election and release those still detained.

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Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates may kill them

By DAVID STRINGER

A retired British couple snatched from their yacht by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday they fear they could be killed within a week or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom demand is not paid.

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McCain urges Obama to speed up Afghan decision

By ROB GILLIES

U.S. Sen. John McCain predicted success in the Afghan war effort Friday if President Barack Obama makes a decision quickly to send the reinforcements requested by his top commander there.

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Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken

By ALYSIA PATTERSON

A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying…

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Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin

By ARIEL DAVID

A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.

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Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland

By SCOTT HEPPELL

Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.

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Afghan police are weak link in security force

By ELENA BECATOROS

Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home.

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Lesbian US war deserter wins stay of deportation

By CHARMAINE NORONHA

A lesbian who deserted the U.S. military and fled to Canada must be given another chance to plead her case for refugee status, Canada's Federal Court ruled Friday.

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Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.

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Sears Tower plot leader gets 13-year prison term

By CURT ANDERSON

The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection was sentenced Friday to 13 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge.

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Spokesman says world's largest atom smasher circulates beam of protons after yearlong repairs.

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Pa. university students upset about fitness class

By KATHY MATHESON

A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.

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Planes ready to leave Brunswick, Maine Navy base

By DAVID SHARP

The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station.

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UC students occupy buildings to protest fee hike

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD

Students barricaded themselves inside buildings on University of California campuses to protest a 32 percent increase in student fees and budget cuts that have led to slashed programs and lost jobs.

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