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Senator: USPS to resume North Pole Santa letters

ANCHORAGE, Alaska ---- North Pole elves have good reason to celebrate again, thanks to a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to resume a Santa Claus letter program that's thrilled children from around the world for decades.

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Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

ROME ---- 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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Resort island reels after deadly attack by gunman

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands ---- The Pacific resort island of Saipan was reeling Saturday from one of the most violent attacks in its history, when a gunman killed five people, including two small children and himself, in a rampage that ended at a World War II historical site.

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Miley Cyrus tour bus overturns in Va., killing 1

DINWIDDIE, Va. ---- The driver of a Miley Cyrus tour bus was killed Friday when the bus overturned, but the 16-year-old "Hannah Montana" star wasn't on board, Virginia State Police said.

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Winfrey: Prayer, careful thought influenced exit

CHICAGO ---- Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision.

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

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. ---- 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.

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Two Pa. judges given partial immunity in civil suit

HARRISBURG, Pa. ---- Two former county judges accused of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send juveniles to private detention facilities are partially immune from civil lawsuits, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Friday.

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Italian prosecutor: Knox hated murder victim

PERUGIA, Italy ---- An American student accused of fatally stabbing her British roommate in Italy had a growing hatred for the victim and killed her in retaliation during a drug-fueled sex game, a prosecutor contended Friday in closing arguments at her murder trial.

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Island's bison given birth control to control herd

AVALON ---- Birth control for bison?

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Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland

COCKERMOUTH, England ---- 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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Arizona burglars steal box holding baby's ashes

PEORIA, Ariz. ---- An Arizona family is pleading with burglars to return a wooden music box containing the ashes of their 5-month old son.

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NYC TV newsman guilty of attempted assault on wife

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. ---- Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife.

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