Fargo calm, confident as Red River completes rise (AP)

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 at 4:52 pm  
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Pallets of sandbags sit ready but unused in a subdivision along the Red River Saturday, March 20, 2010, in Fargo, N.D. Forecasters lowered their flood crest predictions for the area expecting the Red River in Fargo to crest a foot lower than expected on Sunday. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP – They passed out cigars in Fargo on Saturday, but no matches just yet, as a flood-weary city that’s spent the last week getting ready to hold back the Red Waterway cautiously prepared to celebrate what appeared to be a successful defense against the swollen waterway.


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Papal letter fails to calm anger over Irish abuses (AP)

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 at 3:31 pm  
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FILE - The Dec. 30, 2009 file photo shows Pope Benedict XVI during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at The Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese in Munich said Friday, March 19, 2010 it is facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis. Last week, the diocese confirmed the case of a priest who was transferred in 1980 to Munich. That came after three sets of parents alleged he had abused their children in the northwestern city of Essen, the diocese there said. The priest underwent therapy, but then returned to work with youngsters. He was convicted of abuse in 1986. Pope Benedict, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was Archbishop of Munich and Freising at the time of the priest's transfer from Essen to Munich. The diocese has said Ratzinger knew about the transfer but not about the priest's continued work in Bavarian congregations after he assumed his duties at the Vatican. Erwin Wild, then spokesman of the diocese's council of priests, said he and his colleagues were not informed by Ratzinger that the priest was an offender, which he thinks was wrong. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP – Pope Benedict XVI’s unprecedented letter to Ireland apologizing for chronic child abuse within the Catholic Church failed Saturday to cool the rage of many victims, who accused the Vatican of ducking its own responsibility in promoting a worldwide culture of cover-up.


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Stocks extend pattern of calm trading, small moves (AP)

Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 9:46 am  
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, February 5, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidAP – Stocks fell modestly Friday as investors shied away from major moves in the absence of any significant economic news.


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California kids stay calm, help deliver mom’s baby (AP)

Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 7:48 am  
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This Tuesday, March 16, 2010 picture shows the Sanders family, from left, Alana, Faith, 11, Geoffrey, newborn Joseph, Jabari, 9, and Janelle, 2, in Fremont, Calif. Jabari and Faith helped their mother Alana deliver their baby brother Joseph at home on March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group - The Contra Costa Times, Anda Chu) ** MANDATORY CREDIT: BAY AREA NEWS GROUP - THE CONTRA COSTA TIMES, ANDA CHU; MAGS OUT **AP – “The baby’s coming now!” Jabari told the dispatcher as his mom screamed in the background.


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