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• Neb. lawmakers OK age limit for safe-haven law (AP)

  AP - Nebraska lawmakers have approved adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that resulted in 35 children — including teenagers as old as 17 — being abandoned at state hospitals.

  
  

• No sign of arson in Ky. fire that killed 27 horses (AP)

  AP - Fire investigators say they have found no sign of arson in a blaze that killed 27 horses at a thoroughbred training facility in western Kentucky.

• 2nd Mass. politician charged with taking bribe (AP)

  AP - FBI agents arrested a Boston city council member Friday after he was allegedly videotaped taking a $1,000 bribe from an undercover agent in an expanding investigation into corruption at City Hall and the Massachusetts Statehouse.

• Americans still giving, despite economic meltdown (AP)

  AP - As more Americans turn to charity amid worsening economic gloom, operators of food banks and other aid groups are relying on the surprisingly resilient generosity of their neighbors and finding that even when times are tough, people still give.

  
  

• Guards: Crowded Calif. prisons neglect ill inmates (AP)

  AP - Inmates with open, bleeding wounds routinely use communal showers and suicidal prisoners are sometimes kept for hours inside small cages, witnesses testified in a lawsuit over state prison crowding.

• Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost (AP)

  AP - Space shuttle Endeavour provided an orbital lift to the attached international space station on Friday as the astronauts encountered more problems with a new water recycling system.

  
  

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